Game Logic - Level Up and Create Your Own Games with Science Activities for Kids

What's your favorite game to play? Making a game is a creative, logical, even scientific activity! In Game Logic: Level Up and Create Your Own Games with Science Activities for Kids, middle schoolers learn how games work and even design their own games. Hands-on gaming projects, essential questions, links to primary sources, and more get kids thinking analytically about the games they love.

About the author

Angie Smibert is the author of more than 20 nonfiction books about science and technology for kids, including Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids from Nomad Press. Before writing full time, she helped pioneer online training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. She received NASA's prestigious Silver Snoopy as well as several other awards for her work. Besides writing, she also teaches writing -and sometimes human-computer interaction--for Indiana University East. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia. Lena H. Chandhok earned her degree from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2011. Her work has been featured in Slate Magazine and in various anthologies and she has illustrated several books for Nomad Press. Lena currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Angie Smibert
• Assisted by: Lena Chandhok (Illustration)
• Publisher: Nomad Press (VT)
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781619308053
• ISBN: 978-1-61930-805-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 201 mm x 251 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Build it Yourself; Build it Yourself
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Play, learning > Adventure, activity stories, entertainment; Kinder/Jugendliche: Sachbuch: Hobbys, Denksportaufgaben und Spiele, Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Nonfiction, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Experiments & Projects, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Games & Activities / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Computers / Entertainment & Games