[Edu] Making Games

[Carol Townsend]

This is cool William!  I'd love to see a pic of your kids playing the
adapted Aquarius game - are you using full color pictures or just hand
written cards?

If you do use pictures, it's often easiest to print onto a sticker then put
it on a card.  You just need to make a template that fits your card.  I can
check the other lists for geeky hints if they're needed.

Carol

On 8/10/06, William M. Reed <wreed at cdeducation.org> wrote:
>
> I just finished a course at Wright State University, in Dayton, OH called
> "Games you can make to Teach Just About Anything".  As we learned about how
> games can be categorized and used for different kinds of teaching, one of
> the categories was "sorting" games, which, obviously, you can use with your
> students to help them sort information into  categories.
>
> I began thinking about commercial games that I enjoy, and tried to
> determine what category of game they are, when it occured to me that
> Aquarius is essentially a sorting game.  So, since my class project was to
> make a game in a content area, I adapted Aquarius, making my own cards, and
> one or two minor changes to the rules.  Instead of playing/sorting cards by
> "Elements" my students will get to practice biology by sorting cords by
> vertebrate orders (fish, amphibian, reptile, birds, and mammals).  I'll post
> s detailed description and construction guidelines once I have them all
> typed up on the computer and sent off to my professor.
>
>
> Bill
>
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