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Grade 12Sc476h - Applied Physics and Design Thinking: Game Lab

Monacan HighSc476h - Applied Physics and Design Thinking: Game Lab

Jul 2026 · Summer Semester

Prerequisites: The course is built on the foundational big ideas of physics: “The Game Pieces” or matter, “The Moves” or forces and interactions and “The Rules of the Game” that govern those interactions (energy, momentum, waves, etc.).  Students will be challenged to use logic, the engineering design process and collaborative storytelling to create puzzles, games and interactive stories.  A deeper understanding of the physical world will be developed while nurturing collaboration, competition, achievement and narrative that come from creating and playing games.  This course covers the Physics 1 SOLs.  (Prerequisite: MA340 Algebra II) (Laboratory science)

Grades: Grades 9-12

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