[Edu] Class development

[miyu]

Nothing is set in stone yet so no quoting me on the main page of the site
:p

This morning I heard second hand that when working on the master schedule
for the year after next when my school changes from a Junior High (grades
7-9) to a Middle School (grades 6-8) that I have a good probability of
having a 9 weeks class on developing critical thinking skills.  The course
will be based on developing critical thinking skills through board games.
This means that I will have this summer to draw up a good plan of action for
what games I need to buy as well as rubrics and a curriculum to teach them.

Tentatively I'm hoping to have them play a few European games as well as
several abstracts to get a feel for what games can be like outside of
Monopoly and Clue and then embark on a final project of game design.

This is where I would love some suggestions because I will need to develop a
guided methodology to approach designing a game with a small group.  I'm
planning on getting a large amount of pyramids and have them design a game
that will utilize the pyramids in some fashion.  I also hope to have a toy
chest with glass beads, dice, chess boards, maybe some meeples, wooden
blocks, and any other odds an ends they might be able to integrate.  Then
the difficulty will be designing rubrics to actually grade all this work
*laugh*.  Needless to say I'm simultaneously excited and nervous about all
the work to develop the class.  Hopefully though it will go well and I can
make my plans/experiences available to everyone else online and make it
easier for someone to develop something similar down the road.

I just had to share my exciting news with some other like minded individuals
and can't talk about it much at school because the master schedule isn't set
in stone yet and I'm afraid of jinxing myself.

                                 -Ryan

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Ora, lege, lege, lege, relege, labora et invenies.
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