In this experience students will focus on the SEL standards and competencies through playing games. games will be carefully selected that teach students strategy, decision making, creativity, fair play, and taking turns. Students will need to practice good communication, conflict resolution, and being a good winner or loser. Once students have developed these skills, they may choose to design their own games; making up rules, designing a board, and using a 3D printer to create game pieces.
This module is required for second and third grades and optional for all other grade levels.
Kindergarten: Begin to adapt to changes in routines.
First: Recognize that others may interpret the same situation differently than you.
Second: Analyze how different people interpret the same situation.
Third: Determine various approaches to responding to provocation.
Fourth: Predict possible responses to a range of emotions.
Fifth: Recognize how a change in behavior of one side of a disagreement affects the other side.
Teamwork/Conflict Resolution
Critical Thinking
Adaptability and Flexibility