World of Naaya - Teacher's Guide - Environment 1: The Woodlands

Lesson 4: Taking Quizzes and Earning New Keys

Purpose: To demonstrate how to take quizzes and earn keys to access new parts of the world.
Objectives: Students will learn how to locate a Key Station and be aware of the requirement to collect all of region’s knowledge objects. They will learn that they must answer a required number of questions to earn a key.
Materials: Computers (including one for teacher), SmartBoard or projector.

Whole Class Lesson (15-20 minutes):

  1. Point out to students that there are many places in the Woodlands that are locked at first, and that they will have to earn new keys to unlock them.
  2. Explain to students that they will have to take quizzes that review many of the facts in all of the Time Tokens, Nature Frames, Portraits and Fact Files they collect.
  3. Project computer desktop onto a SmartBoard or projector screen.
  4. Log in to the World of Naaya.
  5. Demonstrate guiding the avatar to the Cabin area. (Jump there quickly using the map.) Navigate to the outside of the Key Station (walk north to get there.) Explain that each region has a Key Station where you can earn a Key.
  6. Enter the Key Station. Show how there is a screen that indicates whether or not you have earned every Time Token, Nature Frame, Portrait and Fact File for the region. If you have not yet collected them all, exit the Key Station.
  7. Launch the Scrapbook and show students that there is a space to view each knowledge object, and that it is easy to see how many are still need to be collected.
  8. Demonstrate travelling through the Cabin and the Hut to collect any missing knowledge objects.
  9. Return to the Key Station, enter and begin the quiz.
  10. Answer the first one or two questions with all students as a group. Show how a light comes on each time that a question is answered correctly.
  11. Explain that it takes 10 correct answers to earn a new key.
  12. Exit the Key station, and tell the students they can now try this by themselves.

Independent/Guided Practice (10-15 minutes):

Give students an opportunity to log in and continue exploring the Woodlands. Have them focus on finding all the knowledge objects they need in order to be able to take a quiz. As each student fulfills the requirement, encourage him/her to go to the Key Station in the Hut area and start answering questions.

Circulate and guide any students who are having difficulty with any of the lesson’s objectives, particularly those who expressed frustration during the previous lesson’s class discussion.

Lesson Summary:

Have students log out of the game and join you for a class discussion. Poll the students to see how many were able to get all of the Time Tokens, Fact Files, etc. that they needed to start taking the quiz. If any students could not collet them all, have everyone share information about the locations of hard-to-find-items.

Extension Activity:

Ask students to make up a multiple-choice question that they would ask people in order to earn the next key. Have them write it down on a piece of paper. Then, have each student pass his/her questions to another student.

Give everyone a minute to try to write the answer the question they received. Then poll the class to see who answered their question correctly. For each question that was too difficult, open it up to the group and answer the question together.