| Actually, my cards have the name of an Ohio vertebrate. I created a list of 18 fish, 18 amphibians, 18 reptiles, 18 birds, and 18 mammals from ODNR's website, and then made a table and printed it onto a large Avery sheet. I cut the names out and attached them to index cards which I had divided up in the same way the Aquarius cards are divided. So, the kids need to read to play the game alone, but they'll be building a knowledge base of indigenous Ohio animals, categorized by biological vertebrate orders.
Okay, I have to finish typing up the project so that I can get it to my professor. I'll be posting more details in the next day or two! :-)
BTW, I hope things are going well at GenCon. Good luck, Looneys!
Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William M. Reed St. Joseph Montessori School 933 Hamlet St. Columbus, OH 43201 614-291-8601 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Carol Townsend wrote: This is cool William! I'd love to see a pic of your kids playing the adapted Aquarius game - are you using full color pictures or just hand written cards?
If you do use pictures, it's often easiest to print onto a sticker then put it on a card. You just need to make a template that fits your card. I can check the other lists for geeky hints if they're needed.
Carol
On 8/10/06, William M. Reed <wreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William M. Reed St. Joseph Montessori School 933 Hamlet St. Columbus, OH 43201 614-291-8601 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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