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P.C. Games
Discuss and share opinions on violent computer games. After reading an article, your class will discover the controversy surrounding online games. They analyze the suitability of computer games and write their own letters to a developer...
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Get Your Pupils Moving While Learning
Use these teaching strategies to get the wiggles out and keep the learning in!
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Count on Your Alien
Students practice counting skills and naming body parts of an alien they create using number and word cards. They design an alien with the indicated numbers of body parts. Afterward, they work cooperatively to count and verify each...
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Games Children Play
Help your middle schoolers recognize the similarities and differences between the games they play and those played by pioneer children. Using the Internet, they research a game of their choice and discover how it has evolved over time....
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Student Opinion: Do You Spend Too Much Time on Smart Phones Playing 'Stupid Games'?
This versatile resource from The New York Times website provides a short opinion piece on smart phones and the amount of time we spend playing games on them as well as several possible writing prompts pupils could consider in response to...
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Review Games
Boggle, Jot Thoughts, Trading Cards, Commercial Breaks, Snowball Fight, Bingo, Draw it! Here’s a bunch of review games that would make a great addition to your curriculum library. The games can be easily adapted to address the Common...
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Dreidel Wall Hanging
Young scholarsb discuss the history of the ancient Jewish holiday called Chanukah. They recognize the symbols, foods, games, gifts, and songs of Chanukah. Students create a wall hanging with symbols to celebrate Chanukah.
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Tic Tac Toe, Get Off My Toes
Fourth graders describe the importance of recognizing and forecasting conflict and taking steps to solving it. They analyze conflict situations, follow the steps for solving conflict, and provide solutions involving compromise.
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Wetland Pictionary
Pupils create a game for reviewing vocabulary. They make cards with definitions of the words. Then the cards are used to play the game of Pictionary or a modified game. The teacher could have the students generate their own game in order...
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Multicultural Bingo
Create classroom community with this Bingo icebreaker, which has the group finding out interesting details about one another. For this version, individuals have a 25-square grid, each square containing one multicultural experience or...
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Walk Of Faith
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of trust. This is taught by using a game that asks one person to lead the other while blind folded through an obstacle course. The teacher must watch the students...
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Crazy Fish Camp
Students participate in a instructional activity that reviews the importance of fishing for people who live as natives in Alaska. The game is played in order to unwrap an object that represents the fish in a short amount of time. The...
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Strategic Games Y1: Nim
First graders play Nim online to practice problem solving skills and strategies.
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Stunts & Tumbling Unit
Students, through play and use of a Hyperstudio Stack, identify animals and the way they walk, and then imitate their movements through a game. They gain motor skills through stunts and tumbling activities. This is mainly for...
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A Politically Correct Version of Hangman
Instead of playing Hangman, students can try a different version of the game called Snowman.
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Making Learning a Game
A game lesson can be a way to explore a variety of concepts with your students.
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Incorporating Games Into Classroom Curriculum
Games are a motivating way to help students practice important skills and reinforce learning.
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Arithmetic Revisions
In this algebra worksheet, students perform basic addition and subtraction operations by finding the missing digits. There are 30 questions dealing with multiplication, addition and graphing.
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Science Methods
Young scholars study games. In this environment lesson, students discuss which games are damaging and which are not damaging to the environment by inventing games which are not harmful.
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Time Battleships
Students play a game to practice how to tell time. They play a game of battleship in which they try to find out where his or her partner's battleships are, using .day/time references. The winner is the first to find all of the other...
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Games and Play Today and Yesterday In Louisiana
Students explore the play patterns and games of children in Louisiana's past. Through discussion and Internet research, they explore Louisiana folklore as well as traditional games that students played. Activities for multiple grade...
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The Stock Market Game
Students participate in a variety of stock market games within their classmates. They study the concepts of stocks and investments as well as the criteria for selecting of stocks. Each student is shown how to keep track of the progress...
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Matching Games, Trees and Animals
Students identify and define new words as they are introduced to specific trees, leaves, animals and animal habitats, engage in literacy-related play by playing games that focus on animals and trees mentioned in book, A Tree for Me, and...
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Using Team Games Tournaments
Students apply Team Games Tournaments, a cooperative studying strategy developed at Johns Hopkins University. They utilize the games as an assessment alternative and/or as a review technique.