Teacher Resources
Monster School Bus Game Tips and Tricks
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Unlocking All Levels
On the level select screen, you can press the Shift and C keys simultaneously to unlock all the levels in the game. You want students to use this feature in order to jump ahead a...
Matter Sorter Essential Questions
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What is matter and how does it behave?
How do we know that objects or materials can exist as solids, liquids, or gasses, or plasmas by observing their properties/attributes?
How does plasma dif...
Matter Sorter Game Teaching Strategies
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Use the Matter Sorter game along with the lesson plan to provide several ways of describing States of Matter to your students. Also, think about when best to introduce the lesson or the game, accordi...
Lure of the Labyrinth Employee Lounge Math Game: Essential Questions
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How do I recognize what strategy to use for a specific problem?
How can numbers be expressed, ordered, and compared?
What strategies can be used to solve for unknowns?
Create a purpose for l...
Flower Power: Math Game Essential Questions
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How are common and decimal fractions alike and different?
How are models best used to see how fractional parts can be combined or separated?
How can I use concrete materials and drawi...
A Tangled Web – Essential Questions
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How can you recognize what strategy to use for a specific problem?
How are objects represented and compared using geometric attributes?
How does use of real life tools like protractors and leve...
Ratio Rumble Math Game: Tips and Tricks
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The Ratio Rumble math game contains many levels that get progressively more difficult, and it could take students around three hours to beat the game. Therefore, make sure students understand they are...
Visualization, Connections, and Higher Order Thinking – a Guest Blog Post by Laura Gatto
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“If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know.” – AI r...
Playful Learning Summit at GLS
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Announcing the GLS Playful Learning Summit!
Are you an educator passionate or curious about game-based learning and digital media? You are invited to register for the 2013 Games+Learning+Society Pla...
BrainPOP and the Flipped Classroom
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Make homework fun and involve parents: try a “flipped” lesson! We welcome Katie Neville, a true master educator with more than 40 years of classroom experience and a current Technology Resource Teach...
