Games That Make You Smarter

AnnMaria De Mars

Here are some activities, projects, and experiments that can be done in class or at home. Some are USDA and others are from Ag in the Classroom. Here are 12 for today. Elementary School Science Resources Pre-K to 2nd grade Eggology – will learn what a chick needs for survival […]

Free Agricultural Science Resources for Grades 3-8

December 7, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Newsletter / Remote Education / Teachers tagged Reading / science / STEAM / Teacher Resources / Vocabulary by AnnMaria De Mars

Choke Cherry — USDA has so many free resources for teaching science, reading and art that we had to write several posts. What do you do, though, when material uses outdated terms like, "the Indians" ? We use it as a teachable moment.

Free Science Resources from USDA

December 4, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Newsletter / Remote Education / Teachers tagged Reading / science / STEAM / Teacher Resources / Vocabulary by AnnMaria De Mars

Time Spent Learning Your Culture is of the Essence Several years ago, Dr. Erich Longie and I participated in an analysis of the National Indian Education Study database where we found that the more native youth learned their culture and language in school, the worse their math scores. This finding […]

Include Native American Culture in Your Math Class

November 12, 2020 in AnnMaria / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Game Progress tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

grandfather — When we started 7 Generation Games, our lead cultural consultant, Dr. Erich Longie, told me that the solution was to include Native American culture as part of math, and vice versa. As he said to a student, “Of course our ancestors used math! We were a nomadic people! Do you […]

Where does Native American Culture fit? Everywhere!

November 9, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM tagged newsletter by AnnMaria De Mars

Native American man sitting — I was super-excited to have had the chance to speak at Minot State University on how we use Native American culture to teach math. In analyzing our data, one key issue we found was PERSEVERANCE. That is, students simply give up when it gets the least bit hard. It wasn’t […]

Using Native American Culture to Teach Math

November 3, 2020 in AnnMaria / Educational Games / Math tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

AzTech God King from Meet the Maya — It's not us, it's you. What's up with that?

Sound isn’t Playing in My Game

October 5, 2020 in 7GenGames / Tech Tips tagged Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

Math problem — Many times, a student understands two-digit multiplication or division with remainders but still has difficulty solving a problem. Students need to be taught problem-solving strategies We all know how it important it is to keep students engaged and that’s why we have lots of free teacher resources for you, including […]

How to solve a problem: In Spanish and English

September 28, 2020 in Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources tagged Hispanic Heritage Month by AnnMaria De Mars

robots loose in the Time Travel Academy — In my last post, I got most of the Killer Robots game laid out. I did the following: Decided on a story line Got the artwork Created the first screen, the classroom Wrote a function to get the robots to move and another function to get the robots to turn […]

Game design steps with killer robots

September 20, 2020 in Code Talk / Game Design tagged Game Design by AnnMaria De Mars

robots loose in the Time Travel Academy — There is more than game design than meets the eye. I'm getting ready to teach a class for high school students next week and here are a few of the steps for a game that only takes 2 minutes.

Game design step by step

September 15, 2020 in Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

Why should we memorize math? I’m astounded that some people consider memorization a universal evil because “We have the internet.” Multiplication tables are searchable in my notes or my device, but are in frequent use. Optimizing learning by memorizing the basics is time and energy well-spent for the long haul. […]

The Case for Memorization

August 28, 2020 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Mathematics / problem-solving / Remote Education tagged Making Camp / Making Camp Bilingual / Memory Match Game by AnnMaria De Mars

Making Camp Math Games — How do students use Chromebooks when they don't have Internet? We've made educational math apps that run offline

Online Learning Without Internet

August 7, 2020 in 7GenGames / Division / division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Math / Mathematics / multiplication tagged Bilingual / Bilingual Games / Spanish by AnnMaria De Mars

Ojibwe women in a circle — From March 16 through July 22, we made our games free for everyone, here’s why and how When schools started shutting down in March, we realized four things You could be the world’s greatest teacher and you still weren’t going to be prepared to have your class go online with […]

What happened when we gave away our games for free

July 22, 2020 in 7GenGames tagged Free Resources by AnnMaria De Mars