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• How did having limited time to play the game impact your teamwork? we worked faster and more efficiently 
  • What strategies might you use to help this? really pay attention and use all your clues
  • What tips would you suggest to others?  really pay attention and use all your clues
• How did having limited time impact or shape your thinking during the game? it made me more stressed
  • What strategies might you use to support your thinking?  really pay attention and use all your clues
  • What tips would you suggest to others?  really pay attention and use all your clues
• In what way(s) were your critical thinking and strategies different during the timed games than they were during the initial games? it was different because with regular games I was calmer but these make me more stressed and focused
• What Top 3 strategies/tips would you suggest to others when playing a timed game?  really pay attention and use all your clues stay focused and on task

• What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

I noticed that some clue are really hard to find?

• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

what information can I use to solve this?

• How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session?

it made it very stressful

• What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge?

some of the clues were used in Og’s great adventure

• What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

the number challenges because they were the hardest

• What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge?   click everything and read everything

What did you notice or observe during the challenge? I noticed there were hidden clues in the photos

What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? I asked myself what was the nine letter word?

When did you first begin drawing connections between the different puzzles and pictures? we first began with the puzzle because it was the easiest

What were those connections? the photo and the letter key

What were your biggest clues? the puzzle

What was the most challenging? the nine letter word

What was your biggest ah-ha moment? Why?

when we were figuring out the joke because we were really stuck on it.

• What thinking moves did you use when playing this game (questioning, connecting, listening, observing, deducing, reasoning, etc?

observing because some people will sometimes show their answers

• How did organizing your information impact your experience playing the game?

it helped me figure out the culprit better

• Where else do you use these thinking skills (at school, at home, on sports teams, etc)?

for other games and mystery books

• When might you need this kind of thinking?    for other games and books

• • Reflect on your roles and observations – as a game team, discuss the following questions; CKOs please share any additional observations with your game team
    • What knowledge did you have when you began the game?

I knew how to play the game and I knew what strategies I was going to use

• • • What knowledge did your opponents have?

I’m pretty sure they had sort of the same idea as me

• • • In what way(s) did you use other players’ knowledge? if they accidentally gave away hints of what they had or didn’t have or I would listen really closely when other players made them suggestions

• • • How did this additional information actually help you?

my cards also helped because then it became more and more clear who the suspect was

• • • Can a player learn anything at all from the fact that another player ended their turn without making an accusation?  If so, what information can be used?

yes because then more cards are revealed

• • • How did the chart help or hinder your thinking? it made it easier to guess

what are the strengths of your design?

• it works
• it’s kinda stable
• it’s effective
• it looks kinda nice
• it has some detail
• it’s easy to use
• it’s easy to make

in what ways can you improve your design?

• make slime less solid
• make the characters less fragile
• the slide less steep
• expand the tower
• make sure everything stands up
• add more detail to the tower

what are your next steps?

• add detail to the tower because it looks a little boring
• make everything stand up because some stuff falls over
• make slime less solid because Rapunzel just bounces off of it
• make the characters less fragile because their legs keep falling off
• make it more fun because it looks a little boring

What materials did you choose for your build and why?

we used cardboard, model magic, tape, hot glue, slime ingredients because of cardboard, tape and hot glue for the tower, model magic for characters, and slime ingredients for slime.

Here is a picture of my plan:

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Here is a picture of my first attempt at the building process:

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While you test:

What are you noticing?

the slime is really solid so the princess bounces off of it and the slide is very steep. also, the prince and the princess’s legs keep falling off

What things are working?

the slide and also the tower is still standing.

What things are not working?

the window is too small and the character’s legs are always falling off no matter how much hot glue I put on

How will you tweak this? Make this better? (Be specific and detailed!)

make the window bigger and make the slide less steep. also, make the characters more sturdy and replace the slime with something else because the slime is just not working. and maybe add more detail to the tower because it looks kinda dull.

Do you need any new materials? If so, WHY?

yes because we may need more or new materials for tweaking.

Sketch your new design with labels on a piece of paper. Make sure your drawing is detailed and specifically labeled.

Insert your sketch here:

Why will this new design work better than your first attempt? What is your evidence?

it will work because we thought it through better and we learned from mistakes

What about the building process was challenging?

figuring out what we were going to do about the slime

How did your build differ from your plan? (If your build was different than your plan, update your plan!)

nope.

How did your group work well together during the build? What would you do again?

yes and I would help on the castle more because I didn’t contribute much one day

How did your group struggle during the build? What would you change?

we struggled with the slime but we finally found a way to fix it.

How did spending more time on planning to improve your final blueprint?

it made it look nice and we were able to find all the pieces better

How did your group come to one final plan after brainstorming several ideas?

we found the most fun one

Why do you think taking more time to plan was important?

we got to plan out all the steps better

Did brainstorming with multiple people help you come up with more ideas? How?

they may have better and smarter ideas than me

What would you differently during the planning process next time?

work harder to find more ideas.