Describes how the author learned by watching low-achieving students play intricate card games such as "Magic" that they can learn, can remember, and certainly can master information. Realizes that these cards were advanced learning tools, multifaceted texts using color, symbols, images, texts, and metaphor to help create a world of…

Describes a card game that teachers metabolism to high school biology students. (LS)

Describes a technique using two cooperative learning strategies, Student Teams-Achievement Divisions and Teams-Games-Tournament, to teach science. Students are assigned to teams of three or four and compete against each other during the course of the school year. This competition is a unique way to motivate students at any level. (SAH)

Several computer games are reviewed with respect to how they might be used within the classroom. The games detailed represent "families" that progress from the introduction of a concept to advanced games that help develop it. (MP)

An activity is described which can be used to introduce students to the general divisibility test for nine. (JP)

The study investigated the degree to which a highly motivating computer game learning task could improve the differential diagnosis of adolescent students (N=23) with learning disabilities. Results suggest that a large proportion of students diagnosed as learning disabled are able to learn effectively when highly motivated. (Author/DB)

Describes an interactive game used in conjunction with traditional laboratory work, group discussions, student presentations, and writing exercises to provide an enjoyable and motivating dimension to a university seminar/lab course in historical geology and paleontology. The game is designed for a university setting but can easily be modified for…

Examines three examples of computer games that can be used by high school German students: antonyms, compound nouns, and prepositions. The programs were written in BASIC and developed for use in a second-year German class. (EJS)

The author taught one twelfth-grade general mathematics section (30 students) using a lecture method and two sections (31 students) using commercially available games. After six weeks, achievement of both groups was measured. An analysis of covariance (covariate: grade-point-average) was performed. Students in the lecture section showed…

These designers approaches their physics lesson design task from the viewpoint of play. The designs, all having strong gaming influences, aim to be flexible enough to take advantage of the experience and ideas of a teacher working with a standard curriculum, yet interesting enough for students to want to continue exploring resources on their own…