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Piggins, Carol Ann – Day Care and Early Education, 1979
Descriptors: Class Activities, Early Childhood Education, Educational Games, Music Activities
Klemm, W. R. – Physiologist, 1979
Presents a crossword puzzle with 99 answers designed as a final exam in neurophysiology. Includes the puzzle, clues, and answers. (MA)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Neurology
Peer reviewedWard, J.; Knowles, D. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
Descriptors: Children, Educational Games, Educational Psychology, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedTapson, Frank – Mathematics in School, 1997
Discusses the use of educational games in the mathematics classroom. Emphasizes the reasons for the need for games, organizing games, and the analyses of games. Presents 10 examples of these mathematical games. (ASK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Activities
Peer reviewedHuetinck, Linda – Mathematics Teacher, 1996
Introduces concepts of modern algebraic group theory in the form of a game. Peg boards and rubber bands represent nonnumerical group elements and are manipulated under the operation of reorienting a regular polygon. Symmetry groups are used to explore set properties, as well as commutative and noncommutative operations. (CMS)
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Games, Learning Activities, Manipulative Materials
Peer reviewedWalters, Bruce A.; And Others – Journal of Education for Business, 1997
Business policy students (n=80) participating in a business simulation game were able to apply their classroom learning. Their satisfaction was not determined solely by game attributes; locus of control, achievement need, risk propensity, and satisfaction with their group were influential factors. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Education, Capstone Experiences, Educational Games, Higher Education
Peer reviewedOlbris, Donald J.; Herzfeld, Judith – Journal of Chemical Education, 2002
Depletion is a game that reinforces central concepts of reaction rate theory through simulation. Presents the game with a set of follow-up questions suitable for either a quiz or discussion. Also describes student reaction to the game. (MM)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Educational Games, Science Education
Peer reviewedNorton, Robert M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2001
Discusses how dice games pose fairness issues that appeal to students and examines a structure for three games involving two dice in a way that leads directly to the theoretical probabilities for all possible outcomes. (YDS)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Education, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedSin, Aaron; Center, Alfred M. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2002
Describes an educational game designed for engineering majors that demonstrates engineering economics and business strategies, specifically the concepts of customer perception of product value, convenience, and price differentiation. (YDS)
Descriptors: Business Education, Concept Formation, Economics, Educational Games
Peer reviewedCannon, Hugh M.; Yaprak, Attila; Mokra, Irene – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2002
Describes a game whose purpose is to help students understand the impact of various strategies of government intervention on the dynamic free-market processes stimulating economic development. (EV)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Economics Education, Educational Games, Foreign Countries
Cryer, Patricia – Simulation/Games for Learning, 1990
Presents a model based on work by Schultz von Thun that helps to explain how to avoid misunderstandings in interpersonal communication. The model is then applied to interpersonal interactions in educational games, simulations, and workshops, and the insights it provides into how unnecessary and unintentional conflict may be avoided are discussed.…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Educational Games, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Communication
Peer reviewedHajdu, Judy – Babel, 1989
Discusses teacher-developed cards, for use in German foreign language classroom games, that help reinforce students' language skills in such areas as numbers, names, noun plurals, question and answer sequences, verbs, sports, interviews, and participles. (CB)
Descriptors: Educational Games, German, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Developed Materials
Peer reviewedKirby, Dave – Mathematics in School, 1988
Describes various kinds of games for one and two players. Provides the diagrams and rules for the games and puzzles. (YP)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Games, Learning Activities, Mathematical Enrichment
Cryer, Patricia – Simulation/Games for Learning, 1988
Discussion of the relationship between participants and the person who runs a game, simulation, or workshop focuses on similarities with the relationship between members of an organization and its manager. Motivation theories and the literature on management and organizational development are reviewed, and their implications for better management…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Motivation, Organizational Theories, Participant Characteristics
Peer reviewedTejada, Silvia; Palacois, Joaquin – Journal of Chemical Education, 1995
Descriptors: Chemistry, Educational Games, Higher Education, Science Activities


