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Hi Keith,
Great! There are a couple things you can do. You can have them play "Do I Have a Right" in groups or partners and try to accumulate as many points as they can during the class time. I assume that not many of the students are well-versed in the Amendments, so they can go to the Teachers' Guide for the game and print the Amendments sheet to use as cheat sheets. (Even though they can click on the We the People icon and see the Amendments in the game, it slows things down.) The game starts slowly and then moves pretty fast. The better they know the Amendments the faster they will be able to progress. By the way, the game designers put little tricks in the game that we are still discovering. (For instance, if they get far enough in the game that they earn a coffee maker, the characters move faster whenever they get coffee!)
You could also have them play Supreme Decision in groups. This game is slower moving, but requires pretty high level thinking. They need to get to the stage where they listen to the pairs of judges and do the exercises at the end of each discussion. Just to let you know, there are four pairs of judges - the first and the fourth pairs are more heavily weighed (this is not advertised).
You could also split the class in two, and half plays Do I Have a Right and the other play Supreme Decision.
By the way, we have 4 more games in the works. By the end of the next semester, there will probably be one more game up and ready.
Let me know what your students do and how they like it.
Liz
Elizabeth R. Hinde, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Teacher Education and Leadership
Campus Coordinator
Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus
7271 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall
Santa Catalina Hall Room 330A
Mesa, AZ 85212
Phone: 480-727-1286
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