User Scenario – Teacher Miss Sunshine prepares for math class
Miss Sunshine is preparing for her math class which is tomorrow. She wants her students to understand and apply concepts of probability. As she has done before she will consult the taxonomy site of Game School to figure out what games will be helpful in teaching this topic. Miss Sunshine logs in her account and selects the Math tag on the site. From the eight options of the sixth grade math curriculum standards, that appear on her screen, she clicks on data statistics and probability. And voila! Two games pop up: Yahtzee and Yu gi Oh. Under each game she observes that there is basic game info including number of players, play time and description. There are also five other categories including the core learning activity within the game, the social interaction generated among players, other curriculum standards that this game applies to, data sets that can be collected from this game, possible quests and shared comments from other teachers, as well as documentation from students that have played the game. After scrolling down these specifics, Miss Sunshine chooses to go with Yahtzee, as she thinks its going to be a good introduction for her class. As she saw from the basic game info and comments made from other teachers, this game would be perfect if she divided her students into small groups of five. Now all she has to do is prepare the rest of her lesson plan around the game which she feels is going to be very successful.
User Scenario – Teacher Miss Sunshine wants to help student Cloudy
Miss Sunshine is concerned about one of her students, called Cloudy. During the past weeks she has observed that Cloudy is having a hard time applying problem solving strategies related to numbers and patterns. Today she wants to assign him with some extra homework that would help him better understand these topics. As she always does, she goes to the taxonomy on the Game school website to figure out what games would be best for Cloudy. She searches under the Numbers tag in Maths and a long list comes up. Now what would she choose.? Miss sunshine thinks that Cloudy has other homework to do and so she will pick a game based on the play time. She also remembers that Cloudy likes grid puzzles. Aha! She will choose Sudoku as his extra homework today. Seeing the documentation made by other students on the site, made her feel more confident about her choice.
game bucket: game taxonomy project 