Games That Make You Smarter

AnnMaria De Mars

The Goldilocks of Instruction Whether you call it differentiated instruction, accommodating individual differences or any other name, we all want the same thing – to deliver instruction that benefits our students, that is, not too easy. not too difficult but just right. Teaching middle school, it was not uncommon for […]

Differentiated Instruction with Growing Math

February 16, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Newsletter / Special Education tagged differentiated instruction / holistic instruction / inclusion / Special Education by AnnMaria De Mars

wigwam with items earned in iit — From non-readers to high school students who are a few years below grade level in math, here are ways to use 7 Generation Games to accommodate special needs in your classroom.

Using Growing Math Games with Learners with Special Needs

February 16, 2022 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Educational Games / ESL / Newsletter / Special Education tagged differentiated instruction / inclusion / Special Education / special needs by AnnMaria De Mars

Student on bed with pillow over her head — What teachers really need right now is more time. So, we put aside our other plans and are offering to guest lecture (virtually) for a period an help your students with math, social studies and ELA

I can give you an extra hour of planning time

January 7, 2022 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Student Activity / Teacher Resources / Teacher Training by AnnMaria De Mars

Two monitors on balcony — Wanting to download an app I learned about in Trinidad, I needed to sideload it on my Oculus Quest from my iMac. Not a trivial effort but not super difficult either.

Trinidad and Virtual Reality Sideloading

December 19, 2021 in Founders Corner / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

New trading scene — Making Camp Premium was already better than the math worksheets it replaced, but this update includes many teacher and student recommendations for improvement

When ‘better’ isn’t good enough for education

November 16, 2021 in Educational Games / Founders Corner / Game Progress tagged Math Games / Ojibwe by AnnMaria De Mars

AnnMaria head shot — Without teaching, I would not have had the opportunity to try so many different uses of our software to get those little black boxes with white letters to actually participate in class.

Four reasons a company president is still teaching

November 11, 2021 in Educational Games / Founders Corner by AnnMaria De Mars

In a recent conversation it became clear to me that I am not very good at explaining how 7 Generation Games is a profitable and growing business. That probably was made worse by the fact that we are re-releasing two of our apps using different technology to be able to […]

How we make money when content is not ours to ...

August 24, 2021 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / blogposts / Code Talk / Customized Games / DevDiary / Educational Games / Founders Corner / Game Design / Game Progress / Newsletter / Start-up Diaries tagged 7 Generation Games / 7GenGames / Cultural Content / devdiary / entrepreneur / software developer / successful businesses / women-owned business by AnnMaria De Mars

Adult with clipboard talking to adolescent who is looking at phone — 7 Generation Games and the Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation are collaborating to provide free educational resources to students in order to help them face: risk of child sexual abuse, exposure to domestic violence in the home, and creating a safety plan among others.

Strong Mind Strong Body Good Games

June 2, 2021 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Strong Body Strong Mind tagged decision-making by AnnMaria De Mars

laptop with a face — Teachers assume their students are familiar with technology but that's not always true. That's why Growing Math includes some basic lessons on Google apps

Do we really need to teach Google apps?

May 10, 2021 in Growing Math by AnnMaria De Mars

salmon — When you have six times as many people using your products you need to increase your staff, and quickly. The end result is more features, more support - but less sleep for us while we scale up.

User numbers, you and the fail whale

February 2, 2021 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Educational Games / Founders Corner by AnnMaria De Mars

Here are some activities, projects, and experiments that can be done in class or at home. Some are USDA and others are from Ag in the Classroom. Here are 12 for today. Elementary School Science Resources Pre-K to 2nd grade Eggology – will learn what a chick needs for survival […]

Free Agricultural Science Resources for Grades 3-8

December 7, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Newsletter / Remote Education / Teachers tagged Reading / science / STEAM / Teacher Resources / Vocabulary by AnnMaria De Mars

Choke Cherry — USDA has so many free resources for teaching science, reading and art that we had to write several posts. What do you do, though, when material uses outdated terms like, "the Indians" ? We use it as a teachable moment.

Free Science Resources from USDA

December 4, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Newsletter / Remote Education / Teachers tagged Reading / science / STEAM / Teacher Resources / Vocabulary by AnnMaria De Mars