Games are proven to be effective facilitators of education and learning. Most educational games are designed for younger students from preschool to intermediate. However, older students from high school to postgraduate can still use a little amount of games in their academic studies. Here are grown up and not-so grown up game ideas for educational purposes:
- Memory / Enumeration Championship
This kind of educational game can be used for lessons that involve enumeration of items. For example, for a biology lesson, participants will be asked to stay in another room. They will take turns in going to the room where the rest of the class are and enumerate, let us say for example, as much species of a certain genus as they can. Each of the contestants should not be told the scores of the others. The contestant with the longest enumeration wins.
- Table of Elements Contest
This game is a contest on the mastery of locating elements in the periodic table. The teacher or any game master, could be a classmate, will say in this order a property and an element. Contestants will beat each other at giving the unit or answer to the property.
- Charades
Charades with words from a specified lesson will provide simple recall and contribute to the retention of terms, theories, principles or concepts. This game is very versatile in the sense that it can be used in any course or lesson. The key here is to focus on a certain lesson so that there will be a theme because charades are played using a theme for the words to be guessed.
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