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Kinect Math and English Games
These Kinect video games were submitted by David Renton of Reid Kerr College in the UK. Games are available at http://games4learning.co.uk/ Subject Area and Learning Outcomes Math and English. Games use multi-sensory active methodology to consolidate learning in the areas of Math and English. Summary Kinect Games include 4 separate games, all are one or [...]
Continue reading...It’s All in the Details: Connecting Your Supports to Your Topics
5. March 2012
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By Joe Bisz This game lets students practice connecting the given supporting details to the correct topic sentence. It uses a “cut-ups” mechanic. Download File: It’s All in the Details-Connecting Your Supports
Continue reading...“Comma”-nd and Conquer — Battleship Grammar Mod
19. October 2011
I will upload the resources/assets I used for this lesson in the near future, but I just wanted to report the INCREDIBLE response I receive from my students for this exercise. Here is what I did: first, I gave students a short grammar lesson on commas, maybe a half-hour. Then I distributed a 7×7 grid [...]
Continue reading...How to Catch River Crabs (Process Analysis Essay)
16. August 2011
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Created By Julie Sinn Cassidy Description This is a “cut-ups” exercise where each student group receives a series of sentences that form a process analysis essay about how to catch live crabs. Their task is to determine the order of the essay based on the structure of the sentences and the general structure of a [...]
Continue reading...Interested in adding games to your classroom teaching?
13. August 2011
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In case all the ideas on this website aren’t enough, I just found a great blog that gives you a steady stream of cool classroom ideas, mostly for elementary school, but I already see a couple I can modify to use in my community college classroom. The author is Mike Perry, and he taught high [...]
Continue reading...Test Review Jeopardy
15. July 2011
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One of the easiest ways to incorporate games into teaching is to use Jeopardy. I have used it to liven up test reviews in courses as disparate as calculus and remedial arithmetic. Free templates for the game can be gotten by searching “PowerPoint Jeopardy Template.” You can then enter questions and answers into the template. [...]
Continue reading...Monopoly Mod
15. July 2011
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Created by Francesco Crocco Objective To simulate how class inequality increases over time due to inherited wealth, land, and privilege Procedure 1. Define the word “monopoly” and talk about the ideas that the game embodies (competition, monopolization, survival of the fittest, level playing field, social mobility, the American Dream) 2. Make teams and assign each [...]
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28. April 2013
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