Game-Based Learning

Collaborative games can help students develop skills like critical thinking, emotional control, sustained attention, and working memory.

High school students can explore core ideas like self-reliance and civil disobedience as they read ‘Walden’ and engage in the game.

Young readers benefit from learning through play, and teachers can introduce familiar games to help support students’ literacy growth.

Research shows that using games in teaching can help increase student participation, foster social and emotional learning, and motivate students to take risks.

Games that take students on a quest can invigorate social studies and strengthen bonds among learners.

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These games for upper elementary and middle school students require little to no preparation and reinforce math facts.

Students as young as preschool are able to solve engaging learning puzzles, and teachers can use these resources to design their own.

Teachers can merge social and emotional learning and student choice to guide students to better understand themselves.

Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.

Teachers can help students improve skills like inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility by explicitly connecting them to popular games—and then letting students play.

Play is a popular student engagement strategy, and traditional games boost world language learning via an authentic cultural experience.

Gamification taps into the power of noncompetitive play and students’ desire to improve their skills.

Building a sense of play around math problems encourages students to engage and collaborate.