Co-designing Games to Teach Indigenous History with Primary Sources
If you can't make it to NCSS or you did make it but we ran out of handouts, here are the links to all of the things.
Educational Resources
Money Smart Games for Middle/ High School are bad games - here's why I recommend them
Financial Literacy for middle and high school students
School is getting back under way and maybe you realize you need another lesson or two for this week. Because we have subscribers who are both middle school and elementary teachers, and some who teach at schools that are K-8, each week I'll include a lesson, or maybe a whole unit, for middle school and another for elementary school.
Lessons of the Week: News You Can Use
At 7 Generation Games, we always like sharing resources that we love. This week we’d like to share a site we love, which is the Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom site. At first glance, it may not appear there is much here, but appearances are deceiving. Virtual Field Trips Plus […]
Minnesota Ag in the Classroom: Hidden Gems
Over the past few years, we have interviewed hundreds of teachers, principals, after-school staff and other experts in education – 100% cited maintaining student attention as a challenge. Across the classes we observed and teachers we interviewed, from Title I schools, from 15-50% of students were not turning in their […]
Warm-up Games and a Math-in-Music Lesson
National Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of November. Here are some fun activities that your K-12 students can participate in all year.
Native American Heritage Month Activities for Students
Even non-poetry lovers will love this site that includes a map and history of First Peoples, told through poetry. Introduction by Joy Harjo.
Sites we love: Map of First Peoples Poetry
At 7 Generation Games, we support bilingual education! Bilingual education is important because there are so many benefits that come with being bilingual. A few benefits include having a more flexible and agile mind, better communication skills, and your brain gets a workout which means being bilingual makes you smarter. […]
Need Bilingual Resources? We Have Them!
7 Generation Games intern, Aaliyah, sheds light on our new game, "Disaster Deduction Detectives."
Intern Spotlight: Disaster Deduction Detectives
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
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.
Teaching with Primary Sources Network is a site we love because of the practical lessons, discussion and wealth of topics. It's only flaw is with SO much content you sometimes can get lost.