~:[CH10 - Day 33]:~ Let the Games Begin

 
~:[CH10 - Day 33]:~  Let the Games Begin

Normally during this time of year, I would be walking around campus setting up clues to our scavenger hunt on campus. Obviously it's not possible as we are at home, so instead of the campus, I divided up the city. Students picked which areas of land they would pursue using their own criteria. Some used the restaurants or stores they liked to pick their areas while others picked where they lived, the parks they enjoyed or tried to avoid conflict and tried to predicted which plots would be the least contested. Although after the fact I realized I made too many squares, it still made for some interesting discussion within their groups and more interactive times as students had to negotiate whether to concede, split the land or go into battle, which simply was a spinning wheel. I lost the double-crossing aspect to the game, but still was able to simulate the idea of splitting up a map and paralleling it to imperialism. Adaptation has been key to surviving these difficult times, but when you learn to do so, sometimes you discover some amazing things just like today.