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In my previous post I had outlined 6 main steps for my Action Plan. It has been a little slow getting things going, but I’m now happy to have completed steps 1 and 2. First off, after our last F2F, I spoke with two of our History teachers to pitch to them the idea of using a game (or two) in their curriculum. They were both very excited about the idea and jumped on board (Vince Dannetta and Zach Fanni). Then I searched online and found about ten possible history-related games that I thought might fit into their classes. They had some time to explore the games, and we have now decided on two to follow through with for their Gr.7 course:
For step 3 I now have to sit down over the March Break and start playing around with some possible student activities for both games. In doing this, I want to take a very conscious approach using the SAMR model (something I haven’t done before). I’ll meet with Vince and Zach again after the break and we’ll schedule some class time to play-test the games and try out the student activities (step 4).
Looking forward to it. These look like great games!
Hey Mike,
I just took a quick peek at these two games. They look fascinating and I’m excited to hear how things shake down for your students once they get their hands on them.
Will both of these games be played by the Grade 7 students? Have you found any games with a focus on Canadian History yet? I would love to explore something for my class next year!
Hi Celeste,
thanks for your comment! Yes, both of these games will be used for the Gr.7 History course.
I did come across a few resources for Canadian History games. Here are a few games listed on the ‘Playing History’ database:
http://playinghistory.org/items/browse?search=canada&submit_search=Search
In addition, Garth pointed me to a cool site called “Mystery Quests”:
http://www.mysteryquests.ca/indexen.html
Finally, I also stumbled upon a site called “Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History”:
http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/en/index.php
Hope this helps!
Take care.
Mike