Create-a-Society

Our Create-a-Society game is underway.  In groups, the students have designed island countries that they'll build on throughout the year.  Groups receive marbles for things like good behaviour, work completion, appropriate participation etc.  They then use those marbles to buy items for their islands.  These could be mines, farms, power generation facilities, fish and lumber plants.  

Through these purchases, the islands advance and become more industrialized, and groups have a greater list of items they can purchase.  The game works on a variety of skills including cooperation and group management, mathematics, social studies and geography.