educational games
Educational games are games; board and card games, including video games that are designed to teach people, typically children, about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assit them in learning a skill as they play.
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Contents
- 1 Board Games
- 1.1 Examples
- 1.2 External links
- 2 Card Games
- 2.1 Examples
- 2.2 External links
- 3 Misc. Games
- 4 Video and PC Games
- 4.1 Examples
- 4.2 Educational Games on Nintendo DS
- 4.3 External links
- 5 Magazines
- 6 Research
- 7 See also
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Board Games
A board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked suface, usually specific to that game).
Examples
- Acquire
- Axis and Allies
- Boggle
- Scrabble
- Upwords
External links
- Acquire
- Age of Empires
- Age of Mythology
- Battle Cry
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- Grade/Age: 6 - college / 11 - adult
- Application: Social Studies/History; Learning enhancement for American Civil War battles
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- Grade/Age: K - college /5 - adult
- Application: Mathmatics and brain development; pattern thinking, logic, spacial perception and orientation.
- Caylus
- Civilization
- Conquest of the Empire
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- Grade/Age: 5 - college / 10 - adult
- Application: Social Studies/History; learning enhancement for Roman Empire, the post Marcus Aurelius world, map and miniatures (included) can also be used to illustrate and visualize ancient wars, legion movements, battles etc. for the likes of Alexander the Great, Sargon of Akkad, Darius I etc.
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- Grade/Age: 6 - college / 11 - adult
- Application: Social Studies/History/Geography/MAps; learn the locations of cities, states, mountains and rivers in North America
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- Grade/Age: 1-4/6-10
- Application: deductive reasoning and critical thinking
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- Grade/Age: 5 - college / 10 - adult
- Application: Science/Ecology/Social Studies; efficient and inefficient energy sources, natural resources, market forces, power distribution and networks
- Puerto Rico
- Thurn & Taxis
- Ticket to Ride
- Tigris & Euphrates
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- Grade/Age: 6-college/12 to adult
- Application: Social Studies/History; learning enhancement for ancient Mesopotamia (3,000 BCE)
- The MySecureCyberspace Game
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- Grade: 4, 5, 6
- Application: Cybersecurity and safe Internet behaviors
- This game is part of the Carnegie Mellon Cylab and INI's MySecureCyberspace initiative. It is for free use.
Card Games
An educational card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific. Generally these games expand concepts, such as the food chain, set matching, etc.
Examples
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- Grade/Age: preK - college+/4 to adult
- Application: math, set matching, grouping(s) and variations, pattern recognition
External links
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- Grade/Age: 1-8/6-13
- Application: Basic Mathmatics/Logic; learning enhancement for basic math skills.
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- Grade/Age: 4-8/10-13
- Application: Social Studies/History; learning enhancement for history or literary units on Medieval Europe.
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- Grade/Age: K-2/4-7
- Application: Science; teaches and reinforces lessons about the food chain.
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- Grade/Age: 1-6/6-12
- Application: Science; learning enhancement for units on dinosaurs, including time period in which dinosaur lived.
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- Grade/Age: 6-college/12 to adult
- Application: Social Studies/History; learning enhancement for ancient Mesopotamia (3,000 BCE)
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- Grade/Age: 4-10/9-16
- Application: Social Studies/History; learning enhancement for the French Revolution, Robespierre and the Reign of Terror
- Hera and Zeus
- Kids Corner
- Maya Madness
- Original Memory Game
- Plus Minus
- San Juan
- Surprise
- Touch
- Zeus on the Loose
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- Grade/Age: 3 - college / 8 - adult
- Application: Math; game forces quick addition in ones head. It also creates a situation where plaqyer must focus and learn to shut out extranious information as late in the game one has so many numbers floating in ones head from previous hands, it can be diffcult to add the cards in current play.
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- Grade/Age: k - college / 5 - adult
Misc. Games
Games that are neither card, board or video games.
Examples
Video and PC Games
Some people call these types of games edutainment because they combine education and entertainment. Closely related to the use of educational games is the use of what is known as Serious games.
Examples
There are many educational games. Games that parents and teachers play with children usually have some kind of educational value. Some examples include:
- GCompris
- eduProfix
- Zoombinis
- Pelmanism
- Urban Jungle
- Storybook Weaver
- Gizmos & Gadgets
Most of these types of games target young user from the ages of about three years to mid-teens; past the mid-teens, subjects become so complex (e.g. calculus) that teaching via a game is impractical. Numerous subgenres exist, each for a different field (math games, typing games and so on).
Notable games in the genre include the Carmen Sandiego series, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and the Oregon Trail series.
Programming games like Robocode and Core War may also be put in the educational category.
A somewhat less serious approach to the genre is typified by the typing tutor The Typing of the Dead.
Educational Games on Nintendo DS
With the innovative touch screen feature of Nintendo DS, a handheld game console launched in 2004, numerous educational games have been designed and some of them have sold very well by attracting gamers of all ages. Notable examples include Brain Age, Big Brain Academy, and English Training.
External links
- Game Professor - educational game news, resources, bibliography, and other useful resources for researchers and practitioners who use games.
- Play and learn - weekly updates on the latest activity, educational and children development toy positions
- 3Dnauta - Easy and very difficult game Spatial contest, only for 3D genius.
- Lara's games for kids
- Apples4theteacher - Online Math Games for Kids Educational math games for young children.
- Apples4theteacher - Interactive Coloring Pages Coloring page readers entertain young children and provide building blocks for literacy.
- Easy MEMO - THE Concentration Game An educational memory game with lot of powerful features.
- Educational toys and games Educational toys and games recommendations
- Children's Educational Toys Educational toys for boys and girls.
- The Adventures of Josie True Online educational game for girls, targeting 5th grade science and math curricular areas. Teacher's guides online for free download.
- Life Preservers Evolution Learning Game Life Preservers is a video game that teaches National Science standards on evolution, adaptation, and the history of life on earth.
- Teen Sex Education Games Sex ed trivia games for families with 13-17 year olds, makes having "the talk" more fun.
- Artificial Wisdom/GRADE A nonprofit organization rating everything good in popular video and computer games.
- Free On-line Educational Video Games for Kids Numbers, letters, colors, puzzles and flag games
- Million Musician Challenge
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- Grade/Age: 3-9/8-15
- Application: Teaches playing music through arcade style game.
- Play Master Guru: Educational Software Game Online for Kids Over 2,000 Questions in Math, Science, English and Social Studies for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade.
Magazines
Often gaming and education magazines devote a yearly issue to the topic.
- Education World
- Games Quarterly
- Home Education Magazine
Research
See also
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