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IPG KAMPUS ILMU KHAS

NAME : NURUL ATIQAH BINTI MOHAMED SAID

I/C NUMBER : 921106-08-6436

MATRIC NUMBER : WMA0002/J/062011/BI184

PROGRAME : PRA-PPISMP (TESL) JUN 2011

SUBJECT : THINKING SKILLS

LECTURERS NAME : MDM. CHONG YEAT ENG

DATE OF SUBMISSION : 10 August 2011

Thinking skills Short Coursework:

Word Search Puzzle

Software



IPG Kampus Ilmu Khas

Thinking skills Short Coursework: Word Search Puzzle Software 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgement ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Word puzzle software ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Basic information .................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Justification of question ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 Answer.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Reflection............................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 9





ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First and foremost I would like to express my greatest gr atitude to God who

made all the things possible and the people who have helped & supported me

thr oughout my pr oject.

I am gr ateful to my lecturer, Mdm. Chong Yeat Eng for her continuous support for

the pr oject, f r om initial advice & contacts in the ear ly stages of conceptual inception &

thr ough ongoing advice & encour agement to this day.

A special thank of mine goes to my best f riend, Atifah Suad bt Anwar because

scarif ying her weekend to help me develop the Wor d Puzzle pr ogr am using visual basic

express 2008 sof tware pr ogr amming and stay up late to teach me how to use it.

I wish to thank my parents for their undivided support and interest who inspired

me and encour aged me to go my own way, without whom I would be unable to

complete my pr oject.

At last but not the least I want to thank my f riends who helped me in completing

the pr oject and exchanged interesting ideas, thoughts & made this pr oject easy and

accur ate.





INTRODUCTION

Fr om Oxfor d Advance Lear ner¶s Dictionary Inter national Student¶s Edition, wor d

search is a game consisting of letters arr anged in a square containing sever al hidden

wor ds that you must f ind. While puzzle means a game, etc. that you have to think about

carefully in or der to answer it or do it and something that is diff icult to understand or

explain (Hor nby, 2010).

So, in gener al we can say that wor d search puzzle is a game that requires the

player to f ind hidden wor d by answering questions given.

For years, games are pr actice in classr oom to attr act student attention as it

keeps their body and mind together thr ough the lear ning pr ocess. Games can be played

in the beginning of the class to stimulate the idea about new topic or at the last af ter the

syllabus all covered to test student¶s understanding.

Starting the teaching of a topic creatively with build student¶s interest to the topic

as the f irst impression about something is really important. This enjoyable appr oach will

increase pupil involvement and motivation to lear n.

Games such as wor d search puzzle also can be a good knowledge tr ansf erring

tool as teachers can determine students understanding. In the other hand, it also helps

to develop creative thinking, IT skills, language and communication skills.





WORD PUZZLE SOFTWARE

BASIC INFORMATION

The sof tware was developed using Micr osof t Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition.

It tar geted to upper-primary students specif ically standar d 5. Sub ject covered was

science mainly focus in unit 9 lesson 1 ± acid and alkaline. (Azizah, Sopia, Suwaibatu,

& Yatim, 2007)

The instr uction is f ind all the wor d hidden in the grid of letters. The wor ds may be

hidden in any direction, including diagonally and backwar d. Once you click on the letter,

the box will tur n blue. If you want to change the letter, just double click the same letter

and the box color will tur n white again.

Lastly, to check the right answer just clicks the button. The right

wor d will appear green.

Figure 1: Wor d Puzzle Game Question





JUSTIFICATION OF QUESTION

Games and simulations constitute a highly versatile and flexible medium whereby

a wide r ange of cognitive ob jectives covering all six levels of Bloom¶s cognitive domain

can be achieved (Ellington, Gor don, & Fowlie, 1998)

The all 12 questions in this sof tware is basically ref erring to 5W and 1H method

that is basic appr oach to collecting key information. They are what, why, where, when,

who and how. The question asked were basically lower thinking or der as the majority of

the standar d 5 students are newly mastering reading and calculating skills. Therefore,

they were tested about knowledge, comprehension and application only.

First question, what you use to determine acidic or alkaline? It was a very basic

knowledge because thr oughout the topic, the main thing discussed was the usage of

litmus paper to determine the acidic or alkaline pr operties of substances.

Question 3, 4 and 5 were about the student comprehension about the usage of

litmus paper. Red litmus paper will tur n to blue when tested with alkaline substance but

will remain the same if tested with acid substance. Whereas, blue litmus paper will tur n

to red when tested with acid substance but will remain the same if tested with alkaline

substance. In addition, neutr al substance will not change both red and blue litmus

paper.

Then for sixth and seventh questions, they were about ³who´. The student needs

to look carefully what substance that the f igure in the picture hold and relate their

knowledge with their surr oundings to answer. Bob would be the answer for the sixth and

Chin for the next question.

Af ter that again in eighth and ninth questions, they were at knowledge level. How

acidic and food tastes? This answer can be found directly in the Science Standar d 5

text book at page 94. Acidic food is sour whereas alkaline food is bitter.





For the next two questions, they were asking ³where´. Here once again the

student needs to relate the questions to their surr ounding and think a bit further. There

were hints given to them to guess the right answer. Bathr oom was where they can

found alkaline substances such as toothpaste, deter gent and soap. The neutr al

substance can be found at river as the f resh water is neutr al.

Lastly the question was a little bit higher because af ter being told that they can

tests the pr operties of substance using litmus paper, they were asked when the litmus

paper cannot be used to determine the acidity and alkaline of substance? The answer

was dry as only wet litmus paper used during experiment.

ANSWER

Figure 2: Wor d Puzzle Game Answer





REFLECTION

This short course really helps me understand the use of 5W 1H method to collect

the key of information and presents it in wor d search puzzle questions form accor ding

Bloom taxonomy. Fr om it, I know the suitable question¶s level for student as in this

course I chose standar d 5 students. Therefore, the distribution of question would even

and not be too har d or easy.

Other than that, it also induced my interest pr oducing my own sof tware. I ask my

best f riend help as we together used to do it during secondary school for Information

and Communication Technology sub ject coursework during SPM.

It is not easy as I think because there were many unexpected pr oblems ar oused

but I still love to do as challenge will made us remember what we were lear ning. Since

we were not fully mastered this sof tware, Micr osof t Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition

so, there were unrecovered err ors in this Wor d Puzzle Sof tware. Honestly, I just lear ned

about the right pr ogr amming code tr ough online tutorial (Kiong, 2008) thus, pr acticing

trial and err or method to build this.

I enjoyed doing this coursework because it opened my eyes to how capable I am

to work under limited time and resources. I have lear ned about maximizing the usage of sources ar ound me to complete chores and asked for helped if I really could not do it

alone as the pr overb says two br ains is better than one. I have become more conf ident

and goal-oriented. My or ganizational skills have impr oved greatly. I am looking for war d

to the rest of my college experience, and to the working wor ld beyond.





BIBLIOGRAPHY

Azizah, Sopia, Suwaibatu, & Yatim. (2007). Science Text Book Year 5. Kuala Lumpur: DBP.

Ellington, H., Gordon, M., & Fowlie, J. (1998). Using Games & Simulation in the Classroom. London:

British Library.

Harry. (2006, Sept 14). Google Groups. Retrieved Aug 8, 2011, from

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vb.bugs/browse_thread/thread/9f2134112201

3e7a/983913902dee906f

Hornby, A. S. (2010). Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kiong, D. V. (2008, Nov 6). VB 2008 tutorial . Retrieved Aug 6, 2011, from VB errors handling:

http://www.vbtutor.net/vb2008/vb2008_lesson20.html

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