Improváveis

Campo Mourão | Learning Through the Looking Glass

Nasa Beyond Sky - A learning journey about space exploration

High-Level Project Summary

Our solution proposal is to develop a space exploration game whose objective is to teach about space exploration and consequently present the advantages of the James Webb telescope. We designed a journey that moves forward in a timeline, starts at the beginnings of space observation with Galileo Galilei and progresses through milestones to James Webb.The game will have missions that must be completed to progress on the journey. The missions involve completing mini games that address themes related to the advent of space observation and exploration. The missions were designed to facilitate learning about space in a game-like and interactive way.

Link to Final Project

https://lmmendonca.notion.site/Improv-veis-Nasa-Space-Apps-6fc8ff70011f443b8d7c5917ca203c8a

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/l8aebRgmtDI

Detailed Project Description

Our proposal is to develop an educational online game, for high school students, which inserts the player into an immersion of space exploration throughout the evolution of space observation techniques. The objective is to teach about the advantages of the James Webb telescope for the technological and historical development of society as a whole.

Our solution aims to use a digital resource for educational purposes, which has the possibility of participating in the multiverse in the future, providing an immersive virtual reality solution, with a focus on teaching high school students about astronomy and the history of space observation through digital technology, this is in accordance with item 5 of the BNCC - National Curricular Common Base that cites the importance of digital technologies and computing in the development of skills, and also in accordance with items 4.3.1.2 and 5.3.1 that point out the importance astronomy as a specific skill to be taught.

We thought about monetizing the game from phase 6 of the game, which would go to a foreseen future of space exploration allowing fantasy and reality to mix.

Game Journey

The player's journey advances in a timeline that begins in the beginnings of space observation with Galileo Galilei's telescope in 1564, from the resolution of proposed challenges, the character will advance to 1643 where he will win a reflecting telescope to obtain clearer images of the space from Earth, solving challenges will evolve to 1957 where you manage to find a space rocket destined to explore the moon. Completing missions, he is sent to 1990 where he will embark on a spacecraft destined for the Hubble telescope platform, where he will be exposed to more puzzles that will lead him to embark again on the spacecraft destined to explore the rings of Saturn, solving another challenge is sent to last free phase of the game that takes you to 2021, starting from saturn to the James Webb telescope, arriving at your destination you will be exposed to solving mini-games that will take you to the exploration of Andromeda, where you will need to defend yourself from aliens and interstellar threats. From the resolution of puzzles that show images of NASA Hubble and James Webb that proposes to distinguish the technologies, the player goes to the galaxy of his choice that is already known thanks to the James Webb telescope, thus ending the free trial of the game.

1st phase (1564): The character begins his journey on Earth using a telescope to observe space. From the resolution of simple multi or single player challenges such as minesweeper, naval battle, chess, word search, memory game, etc, the character will advance to the next stage (1980s). In this phase, the game's graphics will be simpler to identify a less evolved phase of technology.

2nd phase (1643): The character gains a reflecting telescope and sees a clearer image of space. The graphics in this phase are a little more advanced than in the previous phase. The player is exposed to one more challenge, which advances him to the third stage of the game.

3rd phase (1957): The player enters a phase where he can move around a rocket launch site, after solving a challenge, he will be able to travel in a rocket and explore the moon. With the resolution of one more challenge he passes to the fourth phase.

4th stage (1990): From this stage, the player boards a spacecraft that takes him to the platform of the NASA Hubble telescope, from the resolution of a challenge, he is taken to the rings of saturn through the observation of an image taken from himself. Hubble telescope repository. From one more challenge, the fifth phase is sent (end of the free trial).

5th phase (2021): The character departs from saturn to the James Webb telescope. From the resolution of a challenge, the player's ship moves to Andromeda where it needs to defend itself from aliens and interstellar threats, this leads to the challenge of distinguishing images from the Hubble telescope and James Webb, when hitting the puzzle, you have the chance to choose others. galaxies you want to explore, thus ending the free trial.

Space Agency Data

We started looking at the resources of our theme, at most the images we can use. So one member mention the game “no man's sky”, that we use to get the ideia of exploration and evolution in a similar way. Then we started to get images and data about the evolution of telescopes in history with focus to James Webb telescope. This datas we get from the web page of mission and a capture of image of hubble both in the site of Nasa, in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory site, in the BBC News site, a document about the telescopes in government site educadores and the document “national curriculum common base” that describes the Brazilian students have to learn astronomy.

Hackathon Journey

In our journey we started discussing about the theme, we are choosing between two themes, in fact, we change the theme, because we realize our ideia fits bettwr in Another theme. We would like to show the history of the Nasa or the telescope James Webb. So we started discussing how we gona abort the theme, and we decide to make a game! But the theme of Nasa history was about the earth observation and we want to show the space, and we choose the James Webb telescope theme. Then we start to discuss how this game would be, and each member of our team was thinking an diferent ideia of the rest of the team, so we spoke a lot and get some references to explain our ideias, and we came to a consensus how it gona be and works, and we started to work in hin, with each one doing some part of the ideia and the project. But we face a lot of diferents concepts in the process, with each member thinking in a diferrent way, so the process was a continuous conversation about how the game gona be, but all the process was divided between the team.