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Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Self Driving Car Game
Do you think you could build a game board that acts as a system of circuits to alert and navigate around obstacles? This site contains this challenge as well as a place for students to document their engineering design process, tips, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design a Recycling Game!
Students will design a game where players try to come up with alternative uses for used products. Students will brainstorm ideas for an effective board game format.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Skateboard
Make a Skateboard is a radical activity for gnarly skaters of all ages! Go through a step-by-step process selecting different board shapes, grip tape, trucks, wheels, paint, stickers, and awesome extras! No two boards are the same. What...
Other
Esl Kid Stuff: Classroom Games & Activities
Great variety of classroom games and activities for PK-2 ELL/ESL students, submitted by teachers. Organized alphabetically by game name, the current collection includes activities designed to help the student practice a wide range of...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Science: The Design of 'Through the Looking Glass'
Read about the inspiration of the chess board in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. It describes the chess moves that get Alice through her adventure and how they would work, or not, in a real chess game.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Creative Twist to the Tragedy of Macbeth
A Creative Twist to The Tragedy of Macbeth is a project that gives students an opportunity to express their understanding of Macbeth through their artistic ability. The activity appeals to the learning style of all students by allowing...
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Invent a Board Game [Pdf]
Are you interested in games? Have you innovative ideas? Use your imagination to create a story-based board game with inspiration from two early computer game designers.
Read Works
Read Works: Right On
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.