World Languages Video Game Design Project

Students in Sara Paciorek’s French, Latin, and Introduction to Language courses created unique video games in their target language as a creative tool for final exam review and to develop the 21st century skill of coding. Students followed a set of requirements and used Scratch, or another programming language of their choice, to create their games. 

The video game design project complements the traditional final exam review sheets, online vocabulary drills, and peer-to-peer practice conversations in the target language.

“I am a projects-based teacher and I love to integrate other studies into my language classes, so creating video games in another language is a fun way to end the school year,” said Mrs. Paciorek. “This culminating project gives students the opportunity to be creative, practice their target language in preparation for the final exam, and to develop an important 21st century skill. The best part is seeing the students who quickly grasp coding to become leaders and help their peers problem solve. It was also pretty neat to tell my middle school students how much the high school students enjoyed playing their games!”