[Edu] Curriculum and Cooperative games

[Kimberly Terrill]

Females, in general, often prefer word games...like Boggle or Scrabble...
from my experiennce anyway.. though there are girls that like Chess and
other such games. Usually girls don't enjoy strategy games as much. I would
think girls would enjoy a role playing game.. (a game with social
interaction)..just my throughts...
(NanoFictionary would be a good idea, I bet,  or maybe Chrononauts)
----Kimbrly
www.homeschoolblogger.com/3foldchord


On 4/5/07, miyu <xmiyux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don,
>    Now you have touched on something that has been a real puzzle for me.
> In my after school game club I only have a couple girls who regularly come.
> I have had several come for a meeting or two and never return.  Partially I
> think it is due to the nature of how a single girl showing up at a
> predominantly male club was treated and I had a good long talk with all my
> kids about this behavior and have seen some improvements.
>    More than that though is the fact that many of the games played just
> don't seem to interest the girls that much.  I struggle with this to try to
> understand the needs a young lady might have that could be fulfilled through
> a gaming session (either through the game itself or through the social
> interaction  within the game).  Interestingly enough the girls have enjoyed
> two LL games more than anything else we have played.  Treehouse and Fluxx
> have both strongly appealed to the girls who come regularly.  Bang! and Hex
> Hex haven't so much.
>
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