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Yearly Archives: 2020

Making Camp Premium — There are 24 activities or videos in Making Camp Premium which address third- and fourth-grade mathematics standards or standards of mathematical practice which apply across grades. Because all of our games are based on the assumption that students in mathematics benefit from overlearning, multiple activities address the same objectives. Numbers […]

Standards: Making Camp Premium

October 15, 2020 in Educational Games tagged Math Resources / standards by Christy Hanson

October 12, Columbus Day, is now considered Indigenous Peoples’ Day in more than 130 US cities. Virginia is the most recent state to join the growing list of states that decided to observe Indigenous People’s Day to acknowledge the narrative of the indigenous people. Youth in Action: Conversations About Our […]

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 12, 2020 in Cultural content / Educational Games / Holiday / Newsletter tagged newsletter by Christy Hanson

Let’s Celebrate Unidos 2020! | Oct 9 – Oct 11 UNIDOS Online is all about celebrating the intersection of video games and Latinx culture. Watch many video game related showcases, demos and interviews with game developers and game geeks! Join the Discord, and social media to see up-to-minute updates. Watch […]

LatinxInGaming: UNIDOS 2020

October 9, 2020 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Educational Games / Events / Newsletter tagged Latinx startups / newsletter by Christy Hanson

desert on the Navajo Nation — We have ongoing struggles with the digital divide, homework, teaching, and parenting during the pandemic. Don't let it get you down.

Navajo Self-Reliance during the Fall 2020-21 School Year

October 7, 2020 in Cultural content / Educational Games / Newsletter tagged Cultural Content / Culture Videos by Christy Hanson

AzTech God King from Meet the Maya — It's not us, it's you. What's up with that?

Sound isn’t Playing in My Game

October 5, 2020 in 7GenGames / Tech Tips tagged Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Let’s celebrate all teachers worldwide! We want to send a warm greeting to all those teachers who have had to face new challenges this year. We know how difficult it is to prepare classes, exams, correct assignments, and manage a group of students while making sure that they solve each […]

Happy Teacher’s Day

October 5, 2020 in Educational Games tagged Teacher Resources / Teacher's Day by Daniel Mondaca

Volunteer your time at 7 Generation Games as a game tester! We're looking for enthusiastic game testers who want to play through our game and attentively look for any bugs.

Video Game Testers Needed!

September 30, 2020 in Educational Games / Game Progress / Newsletter tagged development / Game Testing by Christy Hanson

Math problem — Many times, a student understands two-digit multiplication or division with remainders but still has difficulty solving a problem. Students need to be taught problem-solving strategies We all know how it important it is to keep students engaged and that’s why we have lots of free teacher resources for you, including […]

How to solve a problem: In Spanish and English

September 28, 2020 in Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources tagged Hispanic Heritage Month by AnnMaria De Mars

While many people think that choosing a career related to the health field would make them stay away from math, the truth is that it's impossible to not use it.

Why Math is Important for Developing a Covid-19 Cure

September 23, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress / Newsletter tagged Empiric Empire by Daniel Mondaca

Counting by 2 languages augmented reality bilingual app screen — There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and […]

Bilingual People Pay Attention to Different Things

September 23, 2020 in Bilingual Education / Educational Games tagged Bilingual / Hispanic Heritage Month by Daniel Mondaca

Making Camp bilingual — With Hispanic Heritage Month here, we wanted to take a minute to tell you about the work we’re doing to improve education for Latino students, including the nearly 4 million Spanish-speaking English-language learners in U.S. schools today. One of the ways we’re doing that is through our English/Spanish bilingual games. […]

Twice the Languages, Twice the Learning

September 21, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games by Marisol Schultz

robots loose in the Time Travel Academy — In my last post, I got most of the Killer Robots game laid out. I did the following: Decided on a story line Got the artwork Created the first screen, the classroom Wrote a function to get the robots to move and another function to get the robots to turn […]

Game design steps with killer robots

September 20, 2020 in Code Talk / Game Design tagged Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars