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Build Your Own Board Game for Younger Learners (Ages 7-11)
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In this 4 week course we will create our own path based board game!
Class experience
US Grade 3 - 6
Beginner Level
**New to Outschool? Use our coupon for a $20 discount! ARILearnin20 ** This class is a creative adventure in exploring both the games we love and what we love about them. We will create our own path based board game that uses dice, a spinner, tokens and/or cards. Our goal is to create a simple board game that we can play with our family and friends. If you would like to share your final product as a short video of the game play with some pictures and maybe even your rules typed up, that...
4 lessons//4 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1Board Game BreakdownLet's talk about all the different kinds of board games that we play. We will look at some examples and talk about themes for our game design. The assignment this week is to play as many path based board games that we can to figure out what we like about them. Get thinking about your theme and style of game you want to create! It's play and brainstorm week. Keep a list!Week 2Lesson 2Theme/MechanismThis week we get our theme decided on and talk about what elements we might use to create a basic board game. The assignment this week will be to decide on our theme, decide on spinner, dice or card movement and talk about complexity that we can add to the game to avoid runaway leaders. You will have the week to start working on the design of your board. You will need markers, paper, cereal boxes you can open up to glue your path onto and a glue stick.Week 3Lesson 3Prototypes/Design ideas/PlaytestingThis week we should have a prototype. If you are still working on your game, that's great! We can share what we've designed and we can talk about what works and so far what isn't working. Let's brainstorm solutions together! During the week I will post a playtest template. Use this to get feedback from the players of your game and we can talk about how to use this data to fine tune what you created.Week 4Lesson 4Demonstration/Review/FeedbackReview your game, what did you discover? Let's talk over the good things and the problems we encountered. Let's review all of the terminology and ideas we learned!
Learners will create their own simple path based board game and playtest it with their family and friends. *This class applies to the curricular requirements for Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6 B.C. Grade 1-6 and directly relates to B.C. Curricular Competencies for ELA Grades 1-6 under Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing).
🎲Instructor: Ms. Yvonne, BMus. McGill University. Hi! I'm a Metis artist, musician and micro-farmer. My experiences range from 10 years with IBM as a field tech to professional musician. I am a songwriter and a homeschooling mum of two kids and my current obsession is board game design. I believe that child-led project based learning is the key to engagement. As an ND learner myself and a parent of an ND child, I believe connection and relationship are the first step in education. PBL or Project Based Learning allows us to incorporate all sorts of learning in one fun bundle of exploration.
Homework Offered
Learners will be expected to work on their board game outside of class.1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
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Grades Offered
You will need markers, plain white paper, ruler, pencils, eraser, cardboard (cereal box works well for storage), glue stick.
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Learners who join this community will experience spaces where they can be themselves, learn cool stuff, do interesting work, and meet fun people. We are an organization of homeschooling parents, unschoolers and teachers who work as a team to...
Group Class
$17
weekly or $65 for 4 classes1x per week, 4 weeks
40 min
Completed by 4 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-11
2-6 learners per class
