A collection of online games that teaches the fundamentals of government and law and encourages young people to become active in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and is created by a team of distinguished game scholars, designers, and curriculum specialists. In Do I Have A Right?, students learn their constitutional rights while helping clients and earning prestige points in a law firm.
iCivics does not identify a target audience but seems best suited to middle and high school students, and possibly early college.
Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?,” puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks, he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately, the player determines Nat’s fate by deciding where his loyalties lie.
Mission 2, “Flight to Freedom,” which focuses on resistance to slavery, will launch in fall of 2011.
Here’s what the CUNY Games Network presented at last year’s conference: CUNYIT-CUNYGames-2010
Educators coming together to explore how the principles of games promote learning
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