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Do you know any students who speak Spanish or who want to build their Spanish skills? Bilingual students have stronger cognitive abilities and higher chances of getting employed than their counterparts who only speak one language. Making Camp: Bilingual teaches math and history in Spanish. In the game, players solve challenges and […]

7 Day Summer Sale Day 3 – Get Making Camp ...

August 14, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Educational Games / making camp:bilingual / sale / Summer by Diana Sanchez

If you follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter you know that we are celebrating that it’s still technically summer by having our 7 Day Summer Sale! It’s a summer sale that is also helping you get back-to-school ready. Each day we will be releasing a new deal that will […]

7 Day Summer Sale Day 2 – Get 3 Games ...

August 13, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Educational Games / sale / Summer by Diana Sanchez

Now that it’s August, everyone is getting ready to go back to school. It seems like summer flew by! For teachers, summer meant finally getting to go on vacation, but it probably also meant preparing for the next school year. For parents, it might have meant finally getting to go […]

7 Day Summer Sale Starts Today

August 12, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games tagged Educational Games / summer sale by Diana Sanchez

Our 7 Generation Games Pinterest features our teacher resources, videos and educational links. Pinterest was super-popular for recipes, but nowadays, you can find everything you could imagine on it. We and teachers find it especially useful for lesson planning and ideas. You can browse or search for posts (“pins”) on […]

FREE RESOURCES on our Pinterest

July 24, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources by Daniel Mondaca

AnnMaria in woods in Chile — According to a newsletter from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, on average, students lose 2.6 months of learning in math during the summer break. Isn’t that crazy?! They also note that math learning loss is bigger than reading and cuts across all socioeconomic backgrounds. This summer slide results in […]

How to Beat Summer Math Slide

July 9, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Math by Daniel Mondaca

It was a no-brainer, really. Everyone knows that kids lose ground over the summer and kids from disadvantaged homes lose the most, a phenomenon frequently referred to as “summer learning loss” or “summer slide.” So, why not put our technical skills to work and DO something about it? Years ago, concerned about […]

Don’t Get Dumber over the Summer – Summer Learning Loss

July 8, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Holiday by Daniel Mondaca

Creepy house selected in photo curation by Warwick students — ked students to select their favorite photo they took yesterday, crop it as they saw fit and share with me on One Drive and/ or email to me. The point of this lesson was to learn about file-sharing, photo editing and emailing attachments.

Warwick Game Design Class Photo Curation

June 12, 2019 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

7 Generation Games won passes to E3 (the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo – which draws approximately 70,000 attendees each year!) for having the “Best Learning Games Artwork” at the Department of Education’s EDGames Expo. Thanks to the ESA and IES for making our developers’ days – giving them a chance […]

A Developer’s Day at E3

June 12, 2019 in 7GenGames / Conferences by Gonzalo

dirt road in Warwick, North Dakota — It’s been a great start to the summer session teaching game design at Warwick Middle School. Students started off playing two math games, an adventure game and a collector game. We discussed the idea of game genre and what is needed to make a video game – assets, code, story […]

Teaching Game Design at Spirit Lake

June 11, 2019 in 7GenGames / AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / rural education / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

Do you see these common math class flaws ? Whether you’re a teacher or a student, you might have noticed that -with the current educational system- the content in math is re-taught at the beginning of every school year, picking up months before where we left off. Since, logically, these […]

5 Signs that your Math Class has Problems

June 4, 2019 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / Educational Games / Math tagged flaws in math class by Daniel Mondaca

Ojibwe (Native American) girl from math video

VIDEO – Using a number line in fraction problems

May 25, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers / video by Daniel Mondaca

Fish Lake fractions game playing on Windows computer — Watch this video to learn what fractions have to do with fishing. You can apply fractions to almost everything! Actually, you can use fractions to discover whether your tribe, which depends on fishing, is going to die of starvation.

VIDEO – Fractions and Fishing

May 18, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers tagged Fish Lake by Daniel Mondaca