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Sure, games can teach gravity or supply and demand, but can they show us how to build a good argument? The following five games do just that by modeling the work of argumentation. 
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"The online educational video game site iCivics, created in 2009 by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor that features civics curriculum, has partnered with EverFi, an ed-tech company focused on K-12 and higher ed. And through the partnership comes a new initiative Commons – Digital Town Square, offered free to all K-12 schools." According to this post this game will provide an adaptive feature, have "a variety of media including simulations and animations as well as pre and post-assessments and behavioral surveys." It also includes social components, badges and avatars, and they will be meeting some of the Common Core standards. To go directly to this new iniative - Commons - Digital Town Square:
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It is a blessing for busy educators that online sources for free curriculum are about as numerous as online weight loss advertisements. The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence, for example, is a great resource — so great that it offers over 2,000 online teaching resources for arts and music education, over 11,000 on U.S. history topics and more than 62,000 relating to science. If you happen to have the time to browse these listings, you are both lucky and quite extraordinary.
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But what teacher has the time to browse through all these resources? This post provides links to 10 resources that also have great free curriculum. Click through to the post to find hot links to: * Community Classroom - Film based lessons and activities (high school and older students) * Activate Instruction - Resources for students in grades 6 - 12 * Apps with Curriculum - Free curriculum to accompany apps (that do cost money) * Lesson Pathways - Resources for K-5 teachers * Education World - Free curriculum, teacher tools, templates and more * teAchnology - Thousands of lesson plans plus great resources for teachers * Media Education Lab - K-12 lessons to build media literacy and critical thinking skills * iCivics - "...civics and citizenship, culture, economics, geography, government, history and more" * eGFI - K-12 lesson plans in math and science * Intel - Free professional development materials plus many great lessons in STEM, engineering and more More information on all these sites is also available in the post.
Todd Sherman's comment,
August 30, 2013 2:57 PM
Have you tried www.curriki.org? They have 50,000 plus repository of free resources.
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iCivics is a web-based education project designed to teach middle school students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy...
Mamanutter31's curator insight,
November 20, 2014 12:24 PM
Great site for civics lesson plans and resources. |
This post discusses five games that help student develop critical thinking skills and to build good arguments. The games are:
* Quandary - This game has you develop a colony in outer space. Students need to help settle disputes and solve problems.
* Citizen Science - Another game that requires you to use persuasive skills to help solve problems but these problems are related to science.
* Argument Wars -This game is part of iCivics. Students "use their persuasive abilities by arguing a real Supreme Court case". This site provides resources including lesson plans and worksheets as well as a teacher's guide.
* The Republia Times - A game that typically takes 10 minutes or so, the student becomes the editor of a paper and has to curate the front page.
* Papers, Please - In this game the student is an immigration officer in a ficticious country and must make decisions based on evidential arguments presented.
More information on each game is available in the post as well as links to each.