Creating engaging lessons takes a lot of a work. You need to think about who you are teaching, how they learn, what you need to teach, and what will interest/excite/engage them about that topic.
It's helpful to understand a little bit about where third graders are developmentally. With a partner, read this article. Skim the text but really focus on the charts on pages 4-6.
Test your games thinking about how the game play experience might be for 3rd graders.
Now that we understand a bit about the students we will be teaching we need to have clear objectives about what we want them to learn.
I like to create an action statement.
I like to finish this sentence starter with strong verbs like show, explain, make, define, etc.