If stranded on a desert island with students, simulations like being castaways could teach through interactive experiences. Games are effective classroom tools that keep students engaged through movement, fun, and participation. Research shows students learn best not when bored, but through strategies like cooperative learning, simulations, and student-centered project-based learning with feedback. Teachers can facilitate learning through Web 2.0 tools and games like board games, memory games, and active movement games.

1. Topic #11:
Game-based Learning and
Gamification in the Classroom
Movement, Fun and Participation for
Academic Learning
What if….you were stranded on a desert island with a
group of 20 students? How would you teach them?

2. Review: Simulations
Illustrations:
Castaway
The Staff Meeting
Canadian Parliament
The Global Village
The Hunger Banquet
Miniature Earth
Capitalism
Murder Mystery
Micro-society

5. Active & Interactive
Curriculum
Games in the Classroom
Starter/Early
Finisher
Games
Board Games/
Game Shows
Active/
Movement
Games
Memory/
Rhyming
Games
“People don’t learn when they are bored.”

6. Four Corners:
Student Achievement
ROUND #1: Instructional Strategies
Corner A: Cooperative Learning
Corner B: Direct Instruction
Corner C: Simulations
Corner D: Project-based Learning
ROUND #2: Assessment, Grading &
Evaluation
Corner A: Feedback
Corner B: Exemplars
Corner C: Testing
Corner D: Goal Setting

7. Visible Learning:
Research of John Hattie
50,000 meta-analysis studies

8. Teacher Led or Student-Centered?

9. What is my role? Teacher? Facilitator?

15. The World of Web 2.0

17. Early Finisher/Start Up Games
• Password
• Charades
• Pictionary
Board Games/Game Shows
• Who Wants to be Millionaire?
• Front Page Challenge
• Hollywood Squares
• Student-created Board Games

18. Active/Movement Games
• Baseball
• Hockey
• Slap Happy
Memory/Rhyming Games
• Mnemonics/Memory Codes
• The Puzzler
• We Will Teach You