Games That Make You Smarter

Julia De Mars

Level up your teaching using our game builder and AI tools to clone your classroom, your students’ favorite teacher (hopefully yourself!), and anything else you think will drive student engagement. Personalizing your games makes your students feel like the experience was built just for them. It’s also a great way to inject some fun into the lesson- especially if you include inside jokes, like that funny-looking class pet or the constantly glitching Smart Board. Whatever makes sense for YOUR class!

Boosting Student Engagement: Put Yourself in the Game!

June 4, 2026 in Educational Games by Julia De Mars

Julia thinking deeply — Students need to learn more than one subject, they have more than one interest and that’s why the Making Camp series has more than one game. There’s Making Camp Ojibwe, Bilingual, Lakota, and Premium. My personal favorites are the Premium and Bilingual, but that’s just because there’s more learning with words […]

Learning More Every Day with Making Camp

February 4, 2020 in Bilingual Education / Educational Games by Julia De Mars

Learn division with refrigerator magnets — Intern Diaries contribution from Irma Barcena I remember in kindergarten, I would give my mother my work and she would hang it on the fridge. It varied from art and colored pictures. As I got older, it became assignments and tests where I did well, and eventually only the As […]

From papers on the refrigerator to division magnets

July 23, 2019 in Division / division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Intern Diaries / Math / Mathematics by Julia De Mars

Five Principles of Extraordinary Math Teaching Dan Finkel is the Founder and Director of Operations of Math for Love, a Seattle-based organization devoted to transforming how math is taught and learned. Dan is also one of the creators of Prime Climb, a beautiful and colorful, mathematical board game. He contributes […]

MATH TEDx Talk Spotlight: Dan Finkel

March 21, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Teachers by Julia De Mars

Meg and Joe with their apple trees — Watch this video if you would like to learn how to visualize to solve your problems or at least your math problems. We can’t help you with the other stuff, although visualizing can help you achieve many other goals! For now, we are learning how to visualize math problems with […]

VIDEO- Problem Solving: Visualize

February 8, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Freebie Friday / Math / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Julia De Mars

Attention! This throwback post is all the way from 2014! Can you imagine? I do not remember that far back, but I barely remember last year and this one has only just begun so what we learned today is I have a poor memory. But we can learn even more […]

How to be better at anything

February 7, 2019 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Julia De Mars

You know what? Working for 7 Generation Games is probably the perfect internship for me because studying abroad is expensive. In order to not mess up while in another country, you have to know how to budget. I know my parents will laugh hysterically at this bit, BUT it does […]

Interning Abroad Diary: You’ll Really Use Math

February 6, 2019 in Intern Diaries / Math by Julia De Mars

Problem-solving:Estimiate — Rounding, estimating, and Venus fly traps oh my! Don’t be intimidated, this will be an exciting adventure on the journey to get Jenny to see the world’s largest Venus fly trap with math. Like this freebie? Then you’ll love Making Camp Premium. So many great activities on math, history, and […]

VIDEO- Estimation and the world’s largest Venus fly trap

February 1, 2019 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Freebie Friday / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Julia De Mars

kids playing at Hotel Transylvania display in the metro station — This is a more recent “throwback” from a post written by Ann Maria in August 10, 2018. However, it seems very relevant to anyone travelling or debating travelling this year of 2019. I, Julia De Mars, personally related to this surprisingly a lot since I seem to move just when […]

Throwback Thursday: The thing about moving is you bring yourself ...

January 31, 2019 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries / Throwback Thursday by Julia De Mars

Julia in 7 Generation Games hat — It takes a lot and I mean A LOT to get myself motivated to basically do anything as evidenced by the fact that my Motivation Monday is getting published on Saturday. Why? I don’t know. My mom would also like to know, but sorry it’s just how I’m wired I […]

Intern Diaries: Getting Motivated to Learn

January 26, 2019 in 7GenGames / Intern Diaries / Start-up Diaries by Julia De Mars

Julia in a boat on the Thames River — by Julia De Mars I’ll be honest here, I have a very hard life. I’m studying for a semester in London, England, a horrible and uncultured place. Hate it. I have met too many great people already, like seriously go away I have things to do- games to test! There […]

Interning Abroad

January 20, 2019 in Intern Diaries / Start-up Diaries by Julia De Mars