Life Skills

GAMES ANDSIMULATIONSStudents play games asactivities that can be usedfor teaching content,critical thinking, problemsolving and decisionmaking and for reviewand reinforcement.Simulations are activitiesstructured to feel like thereal experience.Games and simulationspromote fun, activelearning, and richdiscussion in theclassroom as participantswork hard to prove theirpoints or earn points.They require thecombined use ofknowledge, attitudes, andskills and allow studentsto test out assumptionsand abilities in relativelysafe environment.Games:• Remind studentsthat the activityis meant to beenjoyable andthat it does notmatter who winsSimulations:• Work best whenthey are brief anddiscussedimmediately• Students shouldbe asked toimaginethemselves in asituation orshould play astructured gameof activity toexperience afeeling thatmight occur inanother setting12