Empowering Global Citizens

2. Students will analyze and compare various games played by children
in their school.

3. Students will narrate the games they play, produce simple videos and
pictures of those games, and share those observations with peers in
other countries using Internet-based communication technologies

4. Students will analyze reports produced by peers in a school in an—
other country describing the games they play.

Overview

This unit engages students in the analysis of their direct experience with the
games they play, and that analysis is then extended to analyses of the games
played by their parents and their peers in other countries. The activities
involves collecting evidence, using observation skills, studying interviews
and documentary sources, elaborating a framework creating categories to
analyze games, and presenting analyses to peers and teachers in their school
and to peers in other countries. The unit offers an introduction to maps
and to countries and students around the world. Students use technology to

communicate with peers in other countries.

Activity 2.1.1

What Games Do We Play?

This teacher—led activity is an analysis of the games that students in the
class play. Students take turns describing one game they play. In groups,
some students then play the game while other students observe them. The
teacher then leads an analysis of the game, focusing the conversation on, for
example, the following questions:

What is the name of the game?
What is the aim of the game?
How many students play it?

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How does the game foster cooperation?

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