Level Up Your Career: Out of the Basement and Up the Ladder
Summary:
Build a “Character Career Sheet” to jump start your resume and job search. Create your plan during the session and identify key strength, areas of opportunity and career goals.
Michilimackinac in Crisis: The Fur Trade During Pontiac’s War
Summary:
Experience a game designed to help students engage with history through different perspectives, followed by a discussion of how to design games for high school classrooms.
Description:
This is a roleplaying game designed for high school classrooms. This session will be playtesting the debate over fur trade rights and regulations among the inhabitants of the Michilimackinac region and the treaty-making mechanics. After the playtest there will be an opportunity to discuss the gameplay and mechanics.
Attendees will receive a character sheet for a historical figure from 1763 Michilimackinac. Participants will negotiate fur trade regulations through debate and speeches, and toward the end of the roleplay will be asked to write a treaty.The playtest will take approximately forty minutes.
Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the gameplay experience and the mechanics of the game as well as the effectiveness of the game at meeting learning objectives for history and engaging students in education.
Join Paizo Publisher Erik Mona for a look inside the Pathfinder Playtest that begins this week, the path to the release of Pathfinder Second Edition in 2019, and other Paizo developments.
Paizo Organized Play Mgr. Tonya Woldridge provides an overview of educational and entertaining events you can run anywhere, with developments and opportunities provided by the Pathfinder Playtest.
Playing Games to Teach Science Concepts in Public School Classes
Summary:
Experience hands on/minds on games that teach science content. They focus on conservation principles, monster storms, and building chemical compounds. Each game includes engaging game play aspects.
Description:
A Low Pressure to build up my tornado and a Cold Water to nerf your hurricane- BAM my Monster Storms just ate your Tropical storm systems. Many of the educational games used in classrooms are reskinned review games. It is more engaging to use games to teach the concepts. In this workshop, we will try out several hands on/ minds on games that teach academic content in an engaging way.
The Tragedy of the Commons is a simple simulation game that includes cooperation and competition to teach conservation and economic concepts. Monster Storms is a competitive card game with players competing to build up the largest storms using weather variables. Chemical Dice is a competitive dice game that focuses on building the chemical formulae of different compounds.
Participants will receive a usb drive with print and play pdf versions of the games.
Potosí: Using Games to Engage Students with Colonialism
Summary:
We introduce Potosí: The Struggle for Silver, a drafting game about the 16th century Silver Mines in Bolivia. We'll show how this game can be used to discuss colonialism with students.
Pre-K through Second Grade - Using Great Games in Your Classroom or Library
Summary:
Come learn from the experts about games that best fit into pre-K through second grade classrooms. You will leave this session with a resource list, example lesson plans, and tips for implementation.
Description:
For more than 10 years, the Genesee Valley (NY) Game Library has supported classrooms with great games, lesson plans, and best practice for teaching through play. Come learn from the experts about games that best fit into pre-K through second grade classrooms. You will leave this session with a resource list, example lesson plans, and tips for implementation.
Learn how to have students create their own tabletop RPG experiences in the classroom or library. Different systems will be addressed as well as the entire process from start to finish.