So recently I spent time with a 10-yr old boy who is fascinated by all-things-Navy. This ranges from Phoenician triremes to Nelson’s battleline to the Monitor/Virginia and on up through battleships to modern day warfare. We wound up spending an afternoon playing the old 1970s classic boardgame “War at Sea”: …
Well, it’s possible you may have missed the Foundation launching its second Kickstarter campaign for a game called Supercharged. If you’ve missed it and don’t want to follow the link to take a peak, it’s a car-racing game set during what is known as the “Golden Age of Cars’, the …
There’s a tendency for people to think that games are really only suited for a social studies classroom or maybe for use in a study hall, but that isn’t the case. Really, teachers don’t even need to invest a ton of money to incorporate games into their classrooms. Here’s an …
Back in May 2019, I had the opportunity to go through the U.S. Marine Corps’ Leadership Workshop. Great learning experience and I wrote about that here. Since that point, I’ve been trying to keep their ideas in mind as I think about teaching. That’s important because a lot of what …
There are all sorts of games out there–some are easy to play (our current Three Years of War Kickstarter campaign falls into this category…there’s even a podcast about it here…). ‘Easy’ can be defined in terms of time needed to play or the difficulty of learning the rules. Some are more …
