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8th Grade Science teacher, guest blogger, and superstar BrainPOP Educator Rachael Tarshes joined the BrainPOP team in San Diego to share her strategies for game-based learning at the ISTE Playground.  As a follow-up to her earlier blog post, below she shares her reflection on her experience at the conference. ISTE was a whirlwind 3 days of tips, tricks, ideas, and collaborating with teachers and students that words cannot easily describe. In all, I am so glad that I had the opportunity to bring my students to the ISTE Playground to talk about the work that we did in our class!  I knew that the experience of gaming in the classroom would be beneficial to my students despite the short time we had to work on it and my resolve to incorporate more games into my instruction next year was solidified by listening to my students tell other professional educators about their experiences.  Hearing one student describe the forces and motion principles involved in her favorite game, Coaster Creator, over 6 months after we learned them in the classroom was amazing! When we started this project, most of my students thought that gaming would be a huge distraction but in the… Read the Rest»

8th Grade Science teacher, guest blogger and  superstar BrainPOP Educator Rachael Tarshes had some creative strategies for introducing game based learning in her classroom this year! Read about her strategies below, or better yet, if you’re attending the ISTE conference in San Diego, check out her students’ presentation at the ISTE playground on the morning of Monday June 25th. It wasn’t until March of this year that I was made aware of the new roll out at BrainPOP – online games! GameUP currently offers games in Math, Health, Science, and History all for free and linked to BrainPOP videos and lesson plans. At the end of the school year, I was ready to start incorporating games into my science class but I had to figure out a way to make it engaging.  I decided to get a little creative. My goal was to give my students the time and opportunity to play and evaluate some of the science games. This would help me decide which games to incorporate into my 8th grade instruction and which ones to highlight to the other grade-level science teachers for their potential use as well. Taking a hint from Tim and Moby, I started this… Read the Rest»