The article compares the relative effectiveness of teaching environmental education to high school students using conventional instruction, a simulation exercise, and a simulation game. (CD)

A variety of games for beginning second language learners are described. The games are designed to develop the student's confidence in communicating in the target language and to help establish his interlanguage. They include: a bilingual guessing game, to be played by a learner and a native speaker; a game to match words, pictures, and…

Among various possible pedagogical approaches which favor the integration of an environmental dimension into educational processes, gaming and simulation seem particularly suitable to environmental education. Environmental games and simulations reproduce in a simplified and didactical manner the complex nature of concrete environmental problems.…

A guide for teachers of conversational Spanish is intended for the elementary school (grades 4-6) or beginning level. It is designed to introduce students to the sounds and pronunciation of Spanish, and uses the audio-lingual method. The guide contains introductory notes on the scope and sequence of skills and concepts, suggestions for classroom…

Eight classroom warm-up games for the second language class are described, and related assignments are suggested. The activities include a game based on a teacher's explanation for his late arrival in class, a number-guessing game, an exercise in describing characters played by the teacher, a group discussion of a reading selection using fragments…

This document primarily consists of source code listings for software developed under a grant from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Education (NSF/NIE). The code contains the following learning games: (1) Turn and Match; (2) Logic Arcade; and (3) Logic Gates. Also included are an assembler for the 6502 microprocessor…

Commercial games may be adapted for classroom use. (JH)

This book, intended for parents and teachers of preschoolers, provides suggestions to help children prepare to read. Chapters include investigations of the parents' role, of the right experiences to build reading readiness, and of learning through games. The major portion of the book is devoted to description of visual and listening games; for…

The use of simulation games is considered by which the college teacher addresses selected topics by having students engage in activities that approximate the realities of a social situation. Simulations offer a stimulus for examining theoretical models and their applicability to everyday social situations. The Prisoner's Dilemma is presented as an…

This handbook describes inexpensive or easy to make metric measuring materials for use by teachers of grades K-12. Materials for teaching length, area, volume, and temperature concepts are suggested. In addition, there is a chapter on games and aids and a bibliography which provides further references. The introduction includes some hints on…

These 57 game cards were developed to help teachers build their resource files for word-attack skills. Cards are keyed to skills suggested by the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development and are color-coded according to their appropriateness for children in kindergarten through grade three. The front of each card gives the name of the skill,…

The author explores the utility of educational games in elementary and secondary social studies classes. Separate sections of the paper discuss types of games, similarities among formal games and social studies topics, educational game design, and examples, advantages, and limitations of educational games. Game playing in society is described as…

The use of games and gaming, which are simulated decision making, is examined in a paper addressed to the manager and administrator in higher education. Focus is on the use of games in situations of resource allocation for budgeting and long-range planning. Basic definitions and concepts are presented, followed by a discussion of the scope and…

This booklet describes approximately 30 instructional games submitted by Oregon teachers and teacher resource centers. The games are organized in two major sections--one for reading games and one for mathematics games. Within each section, games are grouped according to the similarity of their format; for example, all "road race" games…

The reading games presented in this book involve listening, speaking, writing, and reading and can help students to develop positive attitudes toward working with words to increase their vocabularies, and to be motivated to read. The book describes a variety of activities designed to stimulate student curiosity and suggests ways of using these…