Help me give my students Battleship other strategy games to help them think strategically during their time in the library.
$375 goal
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
The students at our high school are part of a low income, inner-city community. Despite many obstacles they face, they are really great students who value the education they receive and are truly grateful when they are given opportunities they might not otherwise have. Although we are an International Baccalaureate campus with some students who are highly motivated learners, we also have a general population of students that do struggle academically. Regardless of their academic abilities, they are a polite, well-behaved group of students that love to be in the library.
Our library is an active space during lunch and students love to both socialize and engage their minds by playing games.
An average of 70 students visit the library during each lunch period. Of those, about 1/3 of them check out some of the few games we have available such as Uno, Connect 4, and Jenga. Most of the students may not realize the benefits of playing strategy games, but anything that helps them improve their critical thinking skills is a plus.
My Project
While the library is an active place during lunch time, only about 1/3 of the students actively engage their minds with reading, studying, or gaming. Adding more interesting games like Code Names, Battleship, and Boggle to our library collection will help encourage more students to take their socialization to a new level that will have them using their brains while they have fun.
Playing games in the library will benefit students through mental stimulation, improved memory, and developing social skills.
Offering a wider variety of games will allow students to develop their minds in different ways through strategy, word building, logic and reasoning. While academics certainly has it's place in education and is avidly supported by the library, gaming offers a stress-free way to impart learning to students.
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