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Ms. Khrystyne Elsberry from Friend NE is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Incorporating Debate Board Games in the Writing Classroom

Help me give my students literature gaming! Board games can be used to motivate reluctant writers, creative impulses, and social communities. Students will inspire a “state of play” in participants giving them a brain break with creativity!

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Incorporating board games in the writing classroom to meet multiple needs with visual, auditory, and debating!

Board games can meet language development and instead of writing for IEP students, students can respond orally.

Systematic reviews indicate that board games help students strengthen their critical thinking skills, storytelling abilities, inquiry skills, problem-solving skills, collaboration skills, motivation, educational outcomes, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning, retention abilities, reasoning skills, discussion abilities, social connections, vocabulary and grammar acquisition.

Debatable: Debatable all players are politicians taking turns debating both serious and silly topics using creative debate strategies like "Deny everything", "Resort to personal attacks", and "Use made-up science to support you" (Amazon).

Lion in the Way: ROAR! How would you get past a lion? Would you float over him with a balloon or offer him a cookie? eeBoo's Lion in My Way Game is a journey along a path of hazards and barriers which are overcome by the collective cleverness of the players. Armed with the unlikely tools they are dealt, imagination and some silliness, players cooperate creatively to innovate solutions that let them get home together. Illustrated by Saxton Freymann (Amazon).

Ms. Khrystyne Elsberry
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
eeBoo: Lion in My Way - A Game of Imaginative Problem Solving, Cooperation and Creativity for Ages 5 and Up • Amazon Business $27.99 3 $83.97
Mindmade Debatable - A Hilarious Party Game for People who Love to Argue • Amazon Business $21.99 3 $65.97

Materials cost

$149.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $9.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$191.19

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.74

Total project goal

$224.93

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 $224.93

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