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Games for Teaching and Learning
October 26, 2023

Students enjoy playing games, and games are a good way to make abstract concepts sticky. There are numerous TRAILS resources that adapt games students are already familiar with (e.g., Monopoly, Life) and games that were created for the classroom. 

The scrabble board game with the words school and learn highlighted
Jeanne Holcomb
Using "The Game of Life" as an End-of-Semester Assessment
September 26, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Family
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This activity uses of the "The Game of Life" as an end-of-semester assessment in a Marriages and Families course. Students play the board game "The Game of Life," produced by Milton Bradley, and respond to prompts asking them to analyze assumptions that the game...
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Emily M. Medley
Adapted Resource to Complement Gender Bingo: Pre and Post Reflections to Optimize Classroom Dynamics and Gender Understandings in the Classroom
April 1, 2016
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
This is an adapted resource to complement the Gender Bingo Game. This Pre- and Post- Gender Reflection Bundle is designed to let students document baselines of knowledge before and after approaching the gender topic from a sociological perspective and before testing...
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Will LeSuer
Gender Bingo
October 9, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any
Abstract:
The objective of this classroom activity is to assess and reinforce basic concepts and terminology relating to gender through an interactive game: gender bingo. The bingo game is set up where instructors read definitions aloud and students match them to the new...
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Kosha D Bramesfeld
The Game of Social Life: A Multidimensional Poverty Simulation
February 23, 2015
Subject Area(s):
Stratification/Mobility
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Small
Abstract:
Understanding structural factors in social life is one of the top learning goals of a course in sociology (Persell 2010). Still, students often react defensively to discussions about structural inequality (Davis 1992; Watt 2007). Simulation activities may be a means...
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Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
Research Methods Jeopardy
November 2, 2011
Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity, PowerPoint
Class Level(s):
College 300
Class Size(s):
Medium
Abstract:
This resource is a PowerPoint file containing a Jeopardy game used as final exam review in a research methods course focusing on planning a research project and collecting data. The PowerPoint is based on a blank Jeopardy template available online that has been...
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