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Monthly Archives: May 2022

Earlier this week, we told you about how we launched a WeFunder campaign that allows anyone to become an investor in 7 Generation Games for $100 or less. Today, we wanted to tell you why. Not why you should invest in us and the work we’re doing (although we would […]

Why We Do What We Do & Why We’d Love ...

May 27, 2022 in Educational Games / Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz

School is almost over! Now you can finish your professional development during the summer to get ready for summer school or fall semester! The 2022-23 school year will arrive faster than you think, so don’t wait up. You can join our Growing Math training webinar on Saturday June 25, 2022 […]

Check Summer Training Off Your List with Growing Math

May 25, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Growing Math tagged Asynchronous training / Growing Math / Growing Math Training / Professional Development / self-paced training / Summer / Summer Resources / Teacher Resources / Teacher Training by Christy Hanson

We founded 7 Generation Games seven years ago to meet a need we saw in our communities – the communities where we lived and the communities where we worked, communities that were underserved and overlooked. We saw that despite radical advances in technology over the last two decades, the equity […]

Become a Community Round Investor in 7 Generation Games

May 23, 2022 in Educational Games / Founders Corner by Maria Burns Ortiz

Art gallery — Whether you are counting down the last days of the school year or trying to come up with ways to keep your summer school students awake and on task, Google Arts & Culture is a gem. Visit museums virtually, tour national parks, even re-create ancient pottery.

Sites we love: Google Arts & Culture

May 20, 2022 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade by AnnMaria De Mars

As you know, all our 7 Generation Games apps are standards aligned. We have since included standards for math, English and Navajo history. You can click here to view them. What Standards are included in Making Camp Navajo? We included Common Core State Standards for mathematics and ELA. Dine’ Content […]

Making Camp Navajo Standards

May 19, 2022 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Newsletter tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / newsletter / standards / Teacher Resources by Christy Hanson

I wrote a blog post last week about community rounds and how we had been asked if we’d consider doing one. And since posting it, I have gotten a handful of questions that I figured I’d tackle in a single post that I could share more widely. In fact, some […]

Top Community Round Questions I’ve Gotten From Regular Folks, Traditional ...

May 16, 2022 in Founders Corner / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

alejandro — 5 ways Growing Math makes summer school prep easy- 1. Supplemental lessons that are both engaging and standards-aligned, with all the resources you need included. 2. Educational games with standards-aligned content that students can play in class or at home for remediation, reinforcing a concept or a reward for getting their work done early. 3. An entire summer school course of the Growing Math lessons. You'll be amazed how quickly you can pull this together. 4. Include more diverse perspectives in your classroom, from Latino history to Dakota culture, integrated with math and language arts 5. Self-paced teacher training that can be done in as little as 15-minute increments

Feeling unprepared for summer school? Let Growing Math help you

May 15, 2022 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Educational Games / Mathematics / Newsletter / Teachers tagged Growing Math / Growing Math Training / Math / Math Resources / Summer / summer learning / Summer Learning Loss / Summer Resources / summer slide / summer vacation / Vacation by AnnMaria De Mars

deer skin, bow and other trading items in a clearing — "Why are you working on a game that was done years ago? Why on earth would you be happy about that?" This is a question I get asked by everyone from investors to teachers to random people sitting next to me on an airplane. Here are 4 answers to that question.

4 reasons why Making Camp Lakota updates are a good ...

May 10, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Game Progress by AnnMaria De Mars

Recently, I was asked if we would ever consider raising capital for 7 Generation Games via a community round. My answer was that I had not considered it – but now that the subject had been raised, I was interested in learning more. I mean, learning is literally the foundational […]

Would You Ever Consider Doing a Community Round?

May 9, 2022 in Founders Corner / fundraising / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

It is Mother’s Day this weekend. We are here to help you out in case you haven’t found that perfect Mother’s Day gift or worse yet, you forgot the date. (It happens.) 7 Generation Games is partnering up with the Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation this Mother’s Day to help […]

Help Build Strong Communities for Mother’s Day

May 5, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Non-Profit / Non-Profit Fundraising / Strong Body Strong Mind tagged Donate / fundraising / Mother's Day / newsletter / non-profit / strong body / strong mind / Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation / strong mind studios by Diana Sanchez

Making Camp Dakota — Whether you want the world to learn about the importance of turtles, cultural differences in bead work design or how to compute quartiles of temperature readings, you can make a game for it.

Think your game idea can’t happen? Think again.

May 3, 2022 in AnnMaria / blogposts / Customized Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Founders Corner / Newsletter tagged Custom video game development / Customized development / Video Games / Women that make video games by AnnMaria De Mars