Mission US Game for Kids

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Games, Gamification, Social Studies Resources | Posted on March 25, 2019

Enter the free Mission US, a suite of games aimed at grades 5-9 that interactively address the critical events in United States history. These are taught in a choose-your-own-adventure approach that encourages students to dig deeply into history, evaluating cause and effect, and making choices that they can support with evidence. Creators of these games wanted to help students relate to the events and people by being part of the action.

Game topics include:

  • Crown or Colony
  • Flight to Freedom
  • A Cheyenne Odyssey
  • City of Immigrants
  • Up from the Devastation of the Dust Bowl
  • Japanese incarceration (coming)
  • Civil Rights Movement (coming)

Mission US gameplay is web-based, on PCs, Macs, and Chromebooks, and even some iPads. It works best on Chrome, not so well on IE (but does work on Edge). Each mission includes an Educator Guide with lesson plans, questions, and suggestions to support struggling students as well as ideas for how to easily integrate the games into the curriculum and class time. Some of the most popular integrations are how to research, critical thinking, consequences of choice, perspective-taking, literacy, cause and effect, and writing skills (for those who use the writing prompts, reflections, and review questions).

Games take a couple of class sessions but this depends upon how many of the available resources are included with the gameplay. In my experience, everyone loved these lessons.

Gamify Your Class Without Electricity

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Games, Gamification | Posted on May 5, 2014

 

Gamify Your Class Without Electricity has excellent ideas on how to use games to increase student engagement and achievement.

Answerables

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Gamification | Posted on March 13, 2014

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Answerables is an online virtual world game designed exclusively for students.  There is a short video describing the game and also information for parents and teachers about online safety.

3 Online Coding Games for Students

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Coding, Gamification | Posted on March 13, 2014

code maven

 

 

Here are three online tools to help students learn computer coding.

Code Monster

Game Maven

Code Maven

Transforming the Way We Learn: Four New Ways Kids Can Learn with Minecraft

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Coding, Games, Gamification | Posted on September 24, 2013

 

Transforming the Way We Learn: Four New Ways Kids Can Learn with Minecraft This article outlines ways Minecraft can be used in classrooms to enhance student learning.  Examples include writing, learning code, and even lessons in digital citizenship.

Game Based Learning Ideas from ISTE 2013

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Gamification | Posted on August 16, 2013

Settlers of Catan

Game Based Learning Ideas from ISTE 2013 posted by Ryan Schaaf on the Edutopia site.

Kodu Challenge Imagine Cup

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Coding, Contests, Games, Gamification | Posted on March 26, 2013

Kodu Challenge Imagine Cup

Imagine Cup happily invites aspiring game developers, ages 9 to 18, to learn coding by developing a video game with Kodu, an easy-to-learn, game-creation toolkit and programming language available for free download on Windows-based PCs. We’ve drawn on the expertise of Mercy Corps and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop to launch this new challenge and we can’t wait to see what young coders create!

The Kodu Challenge runs from March 19 through May 17, 2013, and invites students in two age brackets (9-12 and 13-18) to design games on the Kodu platform. For this challenge, students will explore the relationships between water and people through the medium of Kodu video games. Although the only limits for these students are their imaginations, the partnership with Mercy Corps offers the chance to learn and explore water-related issues, including disaster relief, clean-water engineering projects and much more through a video series launching soon right here on our site. While acquiring valuable skills such as critical thinking, storytelling and programming, students in both age brackets will compete for first-place prizes of US$3,000, second-place prizes of US$2,000, and third-place prizes of US$1,000.

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