EDTEC 670 Board Game Project Proposals

42 proposals have been submitted. Click on the project name for more details.

Team/Project Name	Submitted by	Description
10K Homeostasis Race	Jay Robnett	This is a board game based on how the human body keeps a constant internal environment (homeostasis). The players will each have a game piece to navigate a board set out in a 10K cross country runnin...
Art Thief Game	Holly Peters	We would like to create a game to teach people about art (specific objectives to be determined later). Each player is a detective traveling around to famous museums of the (western) world trying to...
Astronomy Game	Mary Beth Laychak	We're thinking of making an astronomy based game for students. Some of the topics we've discussed are Solar System/Planets, traveling in space, constellations. Content expert-Mary Beth Laychak A...
Beat the Bully -or- Getting Through School	Janice Wilhelm	The basic idea of this game will be about coaching school-age kids on navigating through various social perils at school, in particular how to recognize and handle situations with bullies. The goal is...
California History Race Through Time	Diane Main	Okay, that title could change, but the idea is to have a California map for the board and the players need to progress through different time periods, completing tasks (based on decision-making in his...
Cold War	Jason Barclay	I would like to work on a Cold War game. I want to attack an area of my teaching which gets boring by the end of the year. I can picture a lot taking place with the Cold War unit. I'm liking the con...
College Bound	Teresa Richards	This game would be for high school students who are planning on going to a four-year university. It would be a path that would include obstacles. Perhaps it could incorporate AVID principles. I...
Command Center: U.S. Coast Guard	Matthew Chong	My idea is a board game dealing with the missions of the U.S. Coast Guard. It would be a decision-making strategy game. At the start of the game, a player would spin to be assigned a new mission. Afte...
Death and Taxes	Michael Frisby	My idea is a board game called "Death and Taxes." The idea is to educate people about wills, trust, probate, estate taxes, etc. - basically the stuff that people should know (and generally don't know)...
Economizer	Brian Campbell	I envision a game that applies simple math concepts to national economies. The game would consist of a board game with a map of four continents (countries), each with different shapes and features, bu...
ESL RPG Board Game	Brian Dickey	The idea is to create a role playing game (D&D format not acting) for ESL students. In this game there would be a a Game Master (GM), imaginary characters, and then the players. The GM creates a scena...
Extreme Classroom Makeover	Susan Harlan	Envisioning a geometry game/cooperation game where the students/teams design a school or one aspect of a school--classroom, playground, parking lot, lunch room, auditorium...etc. Audience would be 6t...
First 100 Days	Jason Barclay	I have an brainstorm idea for a game which involves students using the content of the Constitution, in which they place themselves in the shoes of a recent winner of a US presidential election. I was ...
Fitness Frenzy	Robert Reyes	Team Members: Matt Villaescusa, Leo Hsu Being Physical Educators, we have been searching for topics that would be relevant for our student population. Currently in our district a new policy has b...
Footprint Tracker	Barbara Fanning	Audience: 7-8 grade students (maybe older) Subject: The game teaches students about Carbon Footprints and primarily focuses on math and science but incorporates some social studies. Goal: The ob...
Gangs and the challenges kids face	Avni Vyas	Team: John Miller Justin Kennedy Avni Vyas (Graphic Design) A game focused on choices, consequences, and creative problem solving. involving the challenges kids face in school and ...
Harlem Renaissance	Aurora Velasco	The Harlem Renaissance refers to the African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. Would like to use a map of Harlem as the playing board. Here are two websites on the to...
Just Say It	Daniel Pearson	Board Game Description Just Say It. This game will incorporate pronunciation (phonology) and / or letter recognition. Our audience is Pre K but the game would most likely have an adult player as w...
Landmark/ Travel Game	Samm Hurst	The theme of our game is aimed at travel enthusiasts and will be an opportunity to test knowledge about the worldwide location of important landmarks such as capital cities, famous architecture [fam...
Life - Planning for Retirement	Lisa Waters	Financial terms can be overwhelming and sometimes difficult to understand, but with this game players would be introduced to financial terms and account types and would learn what they mean while play...
Life's a Gamble	Shawn Shepard	The more you know about the world, the more successful you can be. To start the game, players pick a country or countries from the CIA World Fact Book (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-...
Living Things on Our Campus	Dana Ditman	This based on a PBL lesson design I did last semester. Which living things have a right to be on our campus? 6th grade objectives in Science, Math, Language Arts, and Art are addressed in this exp...
Measures	Derek Suzuki	This game would be geared toward middle school - high school music students. Game supplies: (4) game pieces in shapes of instruments (1) die (1) game board - a musical staff in a circular trail...
Party Blitz	Lennon Tan	Educational value: Grade 6/7 Math (focus on consumer math) Number of players: Minimum 2, maximum 4. Age: 12 and up. Story: You want to hold a party but you need "stuff" to make the party fun. Wit...
Pizza Delivery Fantasy	Lennon Tan	Our group is looking for a graphic designer. Goal: Earn the most amount of cash by the end of the game. About Pizza Delivery Fantasy: Players are delivery boys/girls of a pizza shop and they mov...
Preparing for College Game	Karina Borg	Because I work for an organization that helps future first-generation college-bound students here in San Diego, I am interested in designing a game that teaches and reviews skills necessary to reach t...
Race for the Job	Mary Prine	Game members: Mary Burns Prine, Mary Ann Nazzaro, Kimberly Berryman NOTE: This will be designed for older adults who are looking for a job. Race for a Job Objective/principles: A job s...
Real Robots	Minh Tam Chau	Look at this game first (play it too): http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot The board game that I am thinking about is very similar to the online game above except that it will ...
Revolution to Constitution (?)	Kimberly McCain-Correll	I am interested in creating a history game. I am trying to come up with a game based on the American Revolution, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. I'd like it to be some sort of problem...
Save the planet!	Felicia Brown	Purpose: To create a board game that teaches lifestyle choices for sustaining the environment. Current ideas: 1) race game (the first to save the planet is the winner) 2) Pattern game where car...
Shopping Mania	Lennon Tan	Our group is looking for a graphic designer. Educational topic: Simple mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division Goal: Earn the most points by the end of the...
Small Business Counts!	Jodi Kohler	This game will tie in how to establish a small business while integrating math skills, particularly percents and/or fractions. This game will possibly include the following concepts: profit/loss, loa...
Spider Silk Cloth	Dana Ditman	I heard a story on the news about people who have woven cloth out of spider silk ... I wasn't paying a lot of attention but I can't get this out of my mind ... the cloth is on display right now ... ...
Survival Game	Stacey Johnson	Deborah Lawson and I would like to do a survival challenge game. The game is certainly educational, and demands knowledge and decision making, but its not limited to a particular subject area. Audienc...
The perfect job applicant	Lana Dabboussy	Object of the game: As the name of the game implies the purpose of the game is to allow players to become "the perfect job applicant" and get a really fantastic job. Context: The initial idea cent...
The Stock Market Game	Kelley Hundley	This game will bring the complex system of the buying and selling of stocks and bonds to the understanding of middle-schoolers. It correlates an 8th grade standard that studies, on a superficial level...
Travel the World	Whitney Houck	My idea is the combination of a travel adventure and learning world facts. The board is a map of the world, with most countries represented (some will be a lighter shade meaning they are not open f...
U.S. Constitution Game	Jack Bosley	Jason’s Idea - I'm thinking about a Foundations of American Board Game as well. I was thinking about using a hypothetical scenario based, problem solving board game as well. For example, students ...
Vacation for All	Mechelle Reynolds	This is a race where players move around the board attempting to make it to their destination and back again. Like vacation, our players will run into obstacls which will set them back. They will be ...
Wellness - sex education	Lisaanne Wortman	Audience: high school and college age Covering the taboo subject of sex education, beyond the reproductive system, into a racy game that could take the learner out of their comfort zone but teach t...
What's your name?	Eric Smith	Nomenclature for chemistry is often a difficult subject to teach for high school chemistry. I was hoping to come up with a game which would involve the process of naming and writing different compoun...
WW3	Ronnie Clark	The idea I came up with is to design a Risk like game that involves both deriving quadratics and understanding the military strength of each country relative to one another. The game starts out with p...