Examples of Linking Video Game Genres to Key Learning Areas in Kahootz
Download as PPTX, PDF0 likes559 views
The document discusses using various video game genres to enhance learning in key areas through Kahootz. Examples include 'Empire Builder' for HSIE linked to the goldfields, an action game based on differentiating microorganisms, and a role-playing game associated with Emily Rodda’s 'Rowan of Rin' for a literature review. Each game allows students to integrate their subject knowledge creatively while engaging in interactive gameplay.
Examples of Linking Video Game Genres to Key Learning Areas in Kahootz
- 1. Linking video game Genres toKey Learning Areasusing KahootzPart 1.
- 2. Empire Builder A construction and management simulation gameRequires players to build, expand or manage fictional communities or projects with limited resources.Empire Builder Example: Life on the GoldfieldsLinked to HSIE ‘Gold’ unit of workDig site – select location from choice offered
- 3. Find digging supplies – hidden in world
- 4. Find food – hidden in world
- 5. Choose mining method – export 2D graphic into Kahootz
- 6. Choose housing – tent etcStudents continue to build a game around life in the goldfields which reflects learning linked to H.S.I.E.
- 7. Action GamesIncorporating first person shooter gamesPlayers to use quick reflexes accuracy, and timing to overcome obstacles.
- 8. Most basic of gaming genres, and certainly one of the broadest.
- 9. Action games tend to have gameplay with emphasis on combat.Action gamesExample: Micro-organism HuntLinked to Marvelous Micro-organisms Primary Connections Unit of WorkImport 2D images of good and bad micro-organisms into Kahootz
- 10. Players need to differentiate between good and bad micro-organsisms in order to locate and destroy the bad micro-organisms
- 11. Weapon built out of shapes or other objects from the library, grouped then placed in scene and attached to camera.
- 12. Actions attached to objects (e.g. explode object)Role playing gameMost cast the player in the role of one or more "adventurers" who fulfill one or many quests.
- 13. Adventurer may specialize in specific skill sets (e.g. combat or casting magic spells) while progressing through a predetermined storyline. Role playing gamesExample: Rowan of Rin QuestLinked to English (Literature Review) using Emily Rodda’s book – Rowan of RinChoose three quests Rowan has to face to reach the dragon at the top of the mountain.
- 14. Players chooses to be Rowan or another of the villagers that set out on the quest with Rowan.
- 15. Reproduce each quest in a Kahootz scene.