This document discusses using games in history classrooms to engage students. It provides examples of online games that teach history, such as Kahoot, and notes the benefits of games for learning, including increased motivation, strategy skills, peer interaction, and reinforcement of concepts. A list of websites with history games is also included.

1. HTAV 2018
Games in the History Classroom
Clare Rafferty
And
Jess Robinson

2. Kahoot
• Jumble
• https://create.kahoot.it/details/history-
jumble/69e42304-264a-4397-8121-
453c9341a30e

3. Why games?
• Students learn through the process of playing the
game
• Games provide a context for engaging practice
• Through games, students can learn a variety of
important skills
• While playing games, students develop a variety of
connections with the content and can form positive
memories of learning
• Games grab students’ attention and actively engage
them
• “Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning” – Diane
Ackeman

4. Benefits of games
• More Motivation
• Controlled Competitiveness
• Strategy Simulator
• Peer Positivity
• Class Cooperation
• New Knowledge
• Friendly Fun
• Reinforcing Concepts

6. • Games for change
http://www.gamesforchange.org/games/
• BBC games and interactives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/
• History games http://playinghistory.org/
• Active History https://www.activehistory.co.uk/
• Teachithistory https://www.teachithistory.co.uk/
• Online learning games –Planeta42
http://planeta42.com/history/

7. Ludo, Pictionary,
dominos, board
game

8. Interactive games
• QED: Cosmo's Casebook - also ios apphttp://qed.splash.abc.net.au/
• Gold rush http://www.nma.gov.au/av/goldrush/intro.html
• The voyage game Can you Keep Your Convicts
Alive?http://www.anmm.gov.au/learn/voyage-game
• http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/kids.html - Prepare a mummy
for burial
• Inca investigation https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/archaeology/inca-
investigation2
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_gms_cotton_millio
naire.shtml Who wants to be a cotton millionaire?
• Viking Training School:
http://resources.anmm.gov.au//kiosks/www_vikingstraining/VikingsWith
Preloader.swf
• Over the top https://www.warmuseum.ca/overthetop/
• Childdrens' Rights and Freedoms
http://education.abc.net.au/res/i/g.php?url=collection/rf/index.html

9. • Links to find our presentation and online
games list….
• http://raffsrant.global2.vic.edu.au
• Hard copy games from teachithistory.co.uk

10. Questions???