I just finished a course at Wright State University, in Dayton, OH called "Games you can make to Teach Just About Anything". As we learned about how games can be categorized and used for different kinds of teaching, one of the categories was "sorting" games, which, obviously, you can use with your students to help them sort information into categories.
I began thinking about commercial games that I enjoy, and tried to determine what category of game they are, when it occured to me that Aquarius is essentially a sorting game. So, since my class project was to make a game in a content area, I adapted Aquarius, making my own cards, and one or two minor changes to the rules. Instead of playing/sorting cards by "Elements" my students will get to practice biology by sorting cords by vertebrate orders (fish, amphibian, reptile, birds, and mammals). I'll post s detailed description and construction guidelines once I have them all typed up on the computer and sent off to my professor.
Bill
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William M. Reed
St. Joseph Montessori School
933 Hamlet St.
Columbus, OH 43201
614-291-8601
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