Third Grade

Students have just completed reading a short, but powerful book called, "The Green Book" and will now be using their creative thinking skills to make boardgames based off of the book. The Green Book is a story of a group of people who need to leave Earth and travel to a distant planet that they will colonize as their own. It is a story of survival, friendship and more. The activity of game making incorporates learning concepts in the fields of math, science, social studies, and language arts, along with some physical challenges. In fact, games have proven to be an effective learning tool for kids who have had difficulty with other more traditional, learning methods. We incorporate the category of "Synthesis" from Bloom's Taxonomy of having the students create a new game from their knowledge of the story they have just completed reading and discussing.