Social Studies Simulation Game: Applying the Game to Our Learning

Here is a copy of the overhead we read today in class, to help students study for tomorrow's quiz:

Standard 1: How does regional geography influence culture and impact change in people, places, and events over time?

Regional geography: the study of regions throughout the world in order to understand the characteristics of a particular region.

What are the different regions in our simulation game?

• The Mountains
• The Plains
• Land beside the ocean
• Land beside the river

Discuss how life is different in each of these places.

Standard 3: Compare rights and responsibilities of individuals living within a given region to those of another region or group of regions.

Rights: entitlements or permissions, usually of a legal or moral nature.

Responsibilities: things for which one is responsible; a duty, obligation, or burden

What different regions/groups do we have in our game?

• the colonists
• the Indians

What rights and responsibilities does each group have?

Standard 4: Understanding of how availability of goods, services, and technology affect a region.

Goods: a physical product capable of being delivered to a purchaser

Services: a process that creates benefits by facilitating a change in customers, a change in their physical possessions, or a change in their intangible assests.

Technology: material objects of use to humanity and the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.

What goods do we have in our game? What services? What technology?

How can we use these things to help the colonists?