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Kevin J. Krajcir; Emily K. Field; Bradley Fultz; Robin Buff; Jim Gann; Lorin A. Neuman-Lee – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Biological interactions and associations underlie life's processes at every level of organization. Here, we present a classroom activity that allows students to visualize and understand the connections within almost any biological system, from cell functions to ecological relationships. We recommend that instructors implement this activity to…
Descriptors: Biology, Class Activities, Science Instruction, Visualization
Yuxin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adapting to and participating in technology-enhanced classrooms is challenging for both students and teachers. An emerging need in K-12 STEM classrooms is to investigate how students and teachers use learning technology to engage and practice scientific inquiry. Recent researchers have focused on designing orchestration technology to assist…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Educational Technology, Educational Games
Priyan L. Jayamaha – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2024
This study investigates the challenges of teaching history to primary school students and the endeavour to develop a board game, supported by educational apps and augmented reality, to enhance the learning experience. The initiative is in response to the New Zealand Ministry of Education's mandate that New Zealand's history must be taught in all…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Games, Class Activities
Brackenbury, Tim; Kopf, Lisa – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2022
Purpose: Serious games and gamification are evidence-based forms of game-based learning that facilitate student/client instruction. Serious games are activities that directly incorporate educational content into games; gamification integrates characteristics of games into nongame activities. They both promote learning by increasing students'…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Student Motivation, Communication Disorders
Shrager, Jeff – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2021
Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for any domain involving human expertise, and especially for education. Yet the details of how practice works to improve performance are…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Class Activities, Educational Games
Yasar, Hüseyin; Kiyici, Mubin – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2021
In the present study, the studies conducted on educational games between 1965 and 2019 were analyzed to determine the trends in research based on the year of publication, topic, publication type, country, target audience and the concepts included in the study title. In the study, 7141 studies that were accessed with "educational games"…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Trends, Educational History, Periodicals
Elizabeth Caravella – Composition Forum, 2023
Responding to the call for embracing mêtis in the classroom, this piece puts scholarship on embodiment and emergent gameplay in conversation with one another to explore a potential means of cultivating "mêtic" intelligence in the composition classroom by empirically examining how the open world game "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric, Writing (Composition), Class Activities
Rachael Byrne; Regina Murphy; Francis Ward; Una McCabe – British Journal of Music Education, 2024
Playful practices have been linked to increased motivation, engagement, learning and skill development. However, limited research has explored what playful music learning might look like for primary schools, and how teachers might incorporate a range of playful music practices within their classrooms. Our conceptual model for playful music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Play, Skill Development, Learner Engagement
Riley, Jen; Nicewicz, Kate – Marketing Education Review, 2022
Soft skills (active listening, attention to detail, avoiding technology-based distractions, etc.) are a growing need in today's workforce. Yet, finding the time, methods, and space within marketing classes can be a challenge. Faced with the task of teaching students not only how to function in their daily roles once in the workforce, the authors…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Teaching Methods, Creative Activities, Soft Skills
Yagcioglu, Ozlem – Online Submission, 2022
Learning and teaching second language skills requires many different techniques and approaches. In the modern world, students have many opportunities to learn many different languages with the help of technology and with the help of many different modern and traditional approaches. Embodied cognition approach plays a great role in second language…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Class Activities
Yang, Zhiguo; Guo, Xiang – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2020
Hadoop is a well-known big data system and a subject covered in many big data courses. This article describes two role play games for teaching the two fundamental components in the Hadoop framework, MapReduce and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). In the games, students form teams and play different roles as a part of a Hadoop cluster. The…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Class Activities
Yllana Prieto, Félix; Jeong, Jin Su; González-Gómez, David – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2021
In recent times, there has been growing disinterest by students in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This trend is especially acute in those students who do not take STEM content during their secondary or high school education. This disinterest might be conditioned by negative emotions towards science developed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Game Based Learning
Wang, Yang; Liu, Qingtang – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2020
The article explored the effects of game-based teaching on primary student dance teaching and learning. Two semesters of dance teaching and learning conducted by the same teacher were analyzed. In the first semester, the teacher taught dance in a traditional way. In the second semester, the teacher taught dance with a serious game in the teaching…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Games, Elementary School Students, Dance Education
Nicholson, Scott – Childhood Education, 2018
Escape rooms are "live-action team-based games where players discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks in one or more rooms in order to accomplish a specific goal (usually escaping from the room) in a limited amount of time." Escape Rooms are one type of Escape Game, which are narrative-based challenges that use puzzles, tasks,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Learner Engagement, Puzzles
Heafner, Joe – Physics Teacher, 2018
I begin my introductory astronomy course with a unit on critical thinking that focuses on, among other things, the differences between the "scientific method" as frequently presented in textbooks and actual scientific practice. One particular classroom activity uses a simple dice game to simulate observation of a natural phenomenon and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Games