Games and Gaming Resources
I am so going to use some of these resources to plan a gaming unit with my students.
Game Star Mechanic
Gamestar Mechanic is a game and online community that teaches kids how to design their own games. Designing games builds Systems Thinking, 21st Century Skills, Creative Problem Solving, Art and Aesthetics, Writing and Storytelling, and creates a motivation for STEM learning.
Here is an interesting article about the website.
Here is an interesting article about the website.
Game Salad
Game Salad is a free downloadable program that let's users easily create web-based, iphone and ipad games.
Sploder
Sploder is a really cool, educational online gamemaking website. There is even a physics game creator.
Scratch
Scratch is a free downloadable program for making games that was developed by the MIT Media Lab.
"Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."
"Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."
Urgent Evoke
Urgent Evoke is a social justice game. The goal of the social network game is to help empower people all over the world to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems.
