I chose Sim City for my serious game. Sim City focuses on city building and
planning. Students could learn math from
the game and budgeting as each year, you spend money to make your city grow and
raise taxes to pay for the growth. The
concept of budgeting might be hard to understand for younger students but the
principles of math to be learned could be fun if used in a "Sim City"
scenario. We could play a scenario where
the class is the mayors of the city and run through trying to solve how much we
could grow and what buildings we could build.
Each student could have a turn to spend the classes money to buy new
properties. I bought the game years ago
and it can now be downloaded at EA Games . In a classroom setup, only one instance of
the game would need to be running and all of the students could look on the
screen.
Sim City always gets high grades when discussed on line. If you could use it fro language learning that would be great.
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