This document discusses using games in history classrooms to engage students. It provides examples of online games that teach history, such as Kahoot, and notes the benefits of games for learning, including increased motivation, strategy skills, peer interaction, and reinforcement of concepts. A list of websites with history games is also included.
1 of 10
More Related Content
Games in the history classroom HTAV 2018
1. HTAV 2018
Games in the History Classroom
Clare Rafferty
And
Jess Robinson
3. Why games?
Students learn through the process of playing the
game
Games provide a context for engaging practice
Through games, students can learn a variety of
important skills
While playing games, students develop a variety of
connections with the content and can form positive
memories of learning
Games grab students attention and actively engage
them
Play is our brains favourite way of learning Diane
Ackeman
4. Benefits of games
More Motivation
Controlled Competitiveness
Strategy Simulator
Peer Positivity
Class Cooperation
New Knowledge
Friendly Fun
Reinforcing Concepts
6. Games for change
http://www.gamesforchange.org/games/
BBC games and interactives
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/games/
History games http://playinghistory.org/
Active History https://www.activehistory.co.uk/
Teachithistory https://www.teachithistory.co.uk/
Online learning games Planeta42
http://planeta42.com/history/
8. Interactive games
QED: Cosmo's Casebook - also ios apphttp://qed.splash.abc.net.au/
Gold rush http://www.nma.gov.au/av/goldrush/intro.html
The voyage game Can you Keep Your Convicts
Alive?http://www.anmm.gov.au/learn/voyage-game
http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/kids.html - Prepare a mummy
for burial
Inca investigation https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/archaeology/inca-
investigation2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_gms_cotton_millio
naire.shtml Who wants to be a cotton millionaire?
Viking Training School:
http://resources.anmm.gov.au//kiosks/www_vikingstraining/VikingsWith
Preloader.swf
Over the top https://www.warmuseum.ca/overthetop/
Childdrens' Rights and Freedoms
http://education.abc.net.au/res/i/g.php?url=collection/rf/index.html
9. Links to find our presentation and online
games list.
http://raffsrant.global2.vic.edu.au
Hard copy games from teachithistory.co.uk