After deciding the goal of your game, it’s time to gamestorm the best type of game to use to get your players to that goal. Will they work together against a common challenge? Create a strong deck to overcome an obstacle? Place workers on the board to gather key resources? These questions and more will help drive your decisions for which game type would fit best!
Math – Play cards to add up to totals of enemies on board
Social Studies – Build an industrial empire by playing resources and buying new technology to meet goals
ELA – Utilize the characters from a novel, short story, or non-fiction narrative as cards necessary to achieve an objective
Math – Use a combination of dice numbers and math symbols to move forward on a game board
ELA – Move around a board with a story chart to match up your cards with the correct location on the chart
Social Studies – Travel across a map of the world, collecting the necessary resources to build a successful nation
ELA – Create fake news, tweets, and hoaxes to fool your fellow players making their own
Science – Teams must draw a science term and get their team to guess it using gestures, play-doh, or word association
Social Studies – Each player attempts to create a movie title, analogy, or lyric about a historical event or person to impress the judge
Math – Use a combination of number cards and math symbols to deplete your opponent’s health
Science – Deploy a variety of animals in the food chain to eliminate the other person’s based on the food chain
ELA – Characters from a novel or short story square off to reach the end goal first and eliminate the other players
Social Studies – Gathering supplies from various natural resources in a society
Science – finding food, water, and shelter in an ecosystem
Math – Collect the symbols, numbers, and variables required to meet the formulas and equations needed to win
Science – Create chemical compounds by combining like elements as a team
ELA – Each character in a narrative has a specific strength to contribute to solving a common problem in the storyline
Math – Work together with others to combine geometric shapes, numbers, and formulas to overcome an obstacle before time runs out