Feel like travelling to Egypt for an hour?

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I just finished the first draft of the student activity for the History game ‘Death in Sakkara – An Egyptian Adventure’ (BBC).  If you have an hour to spare and want to try a game that takes you on a wild and mysterious ride to Egypt in the 1920s, you might want to give it a try.  This game is beautifully produced and well-researched, but notoriously difficult.  As a result, I have added in a number of hints on the student activity so you don’t end up pulling your hair out:

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If you do try the game using the hints, I’d love to hear about a few things (any or all of them):

  • Approximately how long did it take you to complete the game?
  • Were the hints useful?  Unclear?  Too easy?
  • Is the student activity easy to understand?  Any suggestions?
  • Do you think the game and/or student activity is appropriate for advanced Gr.7 students?
  • Any other feedback?

No worries if you don’t have the time or interest – I’m going to be play-testing the game and the student activity with at least one Gr.7 class at UTS in April.

2 thoughts on “Feel like travelling to Egypt for an hour?

  1. Mike – I plan on sharing these games with my humanities teacher and getting some feedback to share. I am really impressed with the quality of the games you have gathered.

    1. Hi Justin – thanks for this. Updated student activity sheets can be found at http://www.changegamer.ca/history.html (both PDF and Word formats). I’m going to do a post about play-testing these with the UTS Gr.7 History classes, but in a nutshell both worked very well, although the ‘Flight to Freedom’ game knocked it out of the park (Mission US series).

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