This week’s learning log was interesting and a fun change of pace.

As an undergraduate taking a

graduate course, I do not know which grade level I will be placed at, so I decided to do a few

different grade levels that I could possibly teach in the future.

First Game:

Second grade- The first game I will discus is the game “Identifying coins: Couch Fishing” from

Education.com. Access it with this link https://www.education.com/game/identifying-coins-

couch-fishing/. This game is a bare-bones review tool that I would not use to introduce the idea

of money and coin values. The content would probably work for first grade; however, it would

serve as a good way to reassure the class on the basics of money. It would go well with a lesson

centered around the second-grade math standard: 2.MDA.7 Solve real-world/story problems

involving dollar bills using the $ symbol or involving quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies using

the ¢ symbol.

Second Game:

The second game that I played and reviewed was “Identify the Text Features.” This game is a

quick way to wrap up a lesson about text features. It is not the most engaging game for the

students to play but the information that they need to know to finish the game is a good

replacement for an exit slip. It takes the student through a model piece of text and has them find

the corresponding text feature to the description that the narrator is giving.

Standard: 8.2 Use knowledge of appendices, timelines, maps, and charts to locate information

and gain meaning; explain how these features contribute to a text.

Link: https://www.education.com/game/text-features/

Third Game:

The next game that I selected corresponds to a fourth grade standard: 4.E.2B.1 Analyze and

interpret data from observations, measurements, and weather maps to describe patterns in local

weather conditions (including temperature, precipitation, wind speed/direction, relative humidity,

and cloud types) and predict changes in weather over time. The game is called “Weather Report”

and it is one of my favorite games that I have found for this assignment. I like how in depth it is

regarding how a weather map would actually look. I also like the potential for pairing this with a

group activity where each student pretends to read each scenario as a meteorologist would. It

requires the students to call up their knowledge of what weather-related terms are and put them

on the map using the tools the game provides them. Link:

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/weather-report.html

Fourth Game:

Another game that I tried out was called Executive Command” on iCivics

(https://www.icivics.org/games/executive-command). I really think this game would go over

well in a fourth-grade class to cover Social Studies standard 4-4.2 Explain the structure and

function of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government. This game

is an involved and engaging look at what being a president is like, and it comes with the stress of

keeping up with public approval. It is engaging enough to keep the attention of the class but I

think that having it pulled up on the board and working as a class while following the class’s

instructions while playing the game would be the best tactic because of how long this game

takes.
Fifth Game:

The final game for this learning log was also a fun one that scratches that fantasy itch that many

games like. It has a fantasy setting and the games mechanics are based around students’

knowledge of verbs. It could correlate to the second-grade standard 4.4 Form and use the past

tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs. It might become challenging to decipher what the

game is telling them to do, but the teacher explain how the game works could easily get around

most confusion. It requires the students to explore a cave and there are monsters and challenges

to face and the only way to get past them is to choose the correct verb.

Link: https://www.abcya.com/games/parts_of_speech_quest_verbs