Remember, you don't have to be able to play the game itself to use it, but you do need to know the action and content - the students play, you focus on learning objectives (see teaching tips below)

Get starting help from the Data and Game Guide for Teachers 

See an overview of the Teaching Lab's games here

• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - how to defuse different bombs by cooperating

• Minecraft Education - try, for example, the Nobel Peace Centre's ready-made program in several languages

•  "Active citizen", build your school together or design a future world.

• Actionbound - create an offline task round reminiscent of orienteering

• My Child Lebensborn - Norwegian German children after WWII

• Discovery Tour: Viking Age

• Spent -  live on minimum wage in the USA

• Textadventures - interactive fiction

• Bad News - recognise fake news

• We become what we behold - a five-minute game about social media and algorithms 

• Parable of the Polygons - interactive article about the consequences of choices

• Foldit - puzzle about protein folding

• What remains of Edith Finch? Short exploration game about people, family, life, and death

• Gone Home - interactive exploration follows a 19-year-old girl who returns home to an empty house

• Fairplay -an interactive game about discrimination

Play as 

• literature (storyline)

• Skills developing

• excursion

• role playing

• problem solving

• creative tools

• interactive communication with sound/text/image

• low entry threshold/ motivation to communicate 

• starting point for analysis, e.g. of dramaturgy, visualisation, text/storyline, means, etc.