The students will have a list of idioms which we will have discussed in class. With their lists they will enter idioms into the opening Javascript window. After they have entered the idiom, their classmates will have to fill in the letters to guess the idiom.
In my game, much like the original Pressure game, instead of a clock counting down time, I have created a pig that will add body parts as you miss letters. If the whole pig is formed before the idiom is formed then you loose the game. I have also added idioms to every alert window, which will aide in the memorization of the idioms.
This learning object will be used within a much larger idiom unit as a way to help students prepare for a quiz and an oral presentation of two idioms.
The pig graphic will work with another lesson unit that I teach with first grade students. We learn the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction books. By reading Non-Fiction books about pigs the students start to gain an understanding of what is real and what is make-believe. At the end of the unit we play "hang-man" but I use the pig drawings that I have incorporated into this game. Instead of having the students playing this game on individual computers, I would put the game on the SmartBoard and we would work through simple "pig" vocabulary words, such as swine, snout etc.
This learning object could also be used by our ESL students in our districts upper level grades
The High on the Hog game will be geared towards my fifth grade students during their technology classes. The pig lesson on Fiction an Non-Fiction will be taught to my first grade students during their technology/media class time, and if the ESL teachers need to use the game for their students, I would assume it would be at the high school level.
I would like to develop a separate game for my first grade students. I would like the Javascript window to pop-up with a question about pigs that my students would have to answer. I would also like to add a .wav file of a pig squealing on the final pig picture or at the opening of the game. My Javascript knowledge isn't quite there yet.