A simulation game for a Spanish classroom provided each team with a fictitious profile of a Spanish-speaking person. Students made decisions for the characters regarding school, career, leisure activities and family. Slides and films on Spanish-Americans were shown. (CHK)

Suggests some learning activities that can be used to capitalize on the popularity of TV game shows so that students can build their learning skills. These game show formats can also strengthen and reinforce many areas of the elementary curriculum. (Author/RK)

Presents two games that provide practice with equivalent fractions, that were produced at three levels of difficulty, Level 1 being the simplest. Also describes another game for practice in solving simple linear equations. Appendices contain examples of materials used in the games. (ASK)

Presents three number games for mathematics classrooms designed to improve the learning of number concepts. Game topics include determining products, arranging mathematical signs, and factoring. (ASK)

Presents a list of resources including books, commercial games, software, and Web addresses for games and puzzles in the area of mathematics instruction. (ASK)

Discusses the value of introducing students to problems that lend themselves to long-term, in-depth analysis at different levels of intellectual accomplishment. Focuses on one such problem in detail. (DDR)

Presents an effective way to review concepts with students while playing games in science class. Includes grading criteria for student presentation and game assignment. (KHR)

Describes a classroom game that demonstrates to students that equilibria can occur naturally in order to encourage students to take unreasonable equilibria more seriously. Discusses the game, how to organize it in the classroom for a game theory course, and the results. (CMK)

Describes a Web site for college economics instructors that provides 113 noncomputerized economics experiments (games) to help teach fundamental micro and macroeconomic concepts. Explains that the games are annotated and hyperlinked and that the Web site is organized into three tables classifying the games. (CMK)

Presents a game of classifying objects according to their attributes using a three-set Venn diagram, then analyzing the classification of the objects to determine their accuracy. Requires students to capture opponents' game pieces (tangrams) by making mathematical arguments that identify misplaced pieces. (YDS)

Describes an educational game in which students get the opportunity to review Lewis structures and molecular geometries through problem solving activities as a team. (YDS)

Presents a spiral puzzle to test students' ability to remember the names of organic reactions and reagents. (YDS)

Effective ways to teach the abstractions of business policy to undergraduates include analogy, simulation, games, and in particular fantasy role play such as "Dungeons and Dragons." As a form of experiential learning, such techniques can help bridge the gap between theory and its application. (SK)

Teachers are encouraged to use contemporary French songs for language instruction, and are given guidelines for choosing and teaching the songs and for class exercises exploiting the instructional potential of songs. (MSE)

Three types of instructional games (learning, practice, and creative) are distinguished and discussed, and their place in the second language classroom is considered. It is emphasized that instructional games should complement, not repeat, classroom instruction. (MSE)