1st Edition

Up Your Teaching Game Creating Story-Based Games to Engage K-12 Students

By Janna Jackson Kellinger Copyright 2025
177 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

177 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

177 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

Up Your Teaching Game offers K-12 teachers an intuitive and refreshingly fun pathway for creating immersive, story-based games that encourage students to experience the curriculum through play. Regardless of their technical abilities, design acumen, grade level, or domain, today’s teachers have fresh opportunities to create and implement their own content-based games based on the same... Read more

1. Beginning Your Journey 2. Introducing the Story-Based Game Design Process 3. Creating the Characters (Somebody) 4. Developing Goals (Wanted) 5. Designing the Game Obstacles (But) 6. Implementing the Core Game Mechanic (So) 7. Orchestrating the End Game (Then) 8. Achievement Unlocked!

Biography

Janna Jackson Kellinger is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.