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Games and Gamification

This guide for teachers has materials related to educational games and gamification. Featured books and games can be borrowed from your ATA Library

Classroom Game Kits Available Through Your ATA Library

All games listed below can be borrowed from your ATA Library.  Click the bold link to find the item in our library catalogue and request it.  


Biology Games Box (Grades 7-12)   New
Kit includes: Cytosis, Cellulose, Evolution Another World, Genotype, and Keystone North America

game box with close up view of the structures in a plant cellgame box with a close view of cell structures in an animal cellgame box with glowing lizzard smilinggame box with image notebook and peas in podsgame box with images of otter, bee, grizzly bear, and arctic fox

Canadian History Games Box (Grades 3-8)  New     
Contains: Explore Canada, Professor Noggin History of Canada, Hide & Seek, Canadian Trivia Family Edition

Red game box with images of Canadian scenesRed game box with image of game boardRed game box with Professor Noggin holding a Canadian FlagWhite game box with a globe featuring Canada in the centre.


Chemistry Games Box (Grades 7-12) New

Kit includes: Periodic, Subatomic, Compounded, Chemistry Fluxx
game box with an image of the periodic tablegame box with a close up image of an atomboring orange game box with blue fontgame box with images of a beaker, test tube and bunsen burner


Communication & Cooperation Games Box (Grades 4-6)   New
Kit includes: Codenames Harry Potter; Hocus Pocus; Paint the Roses; and Race to the Raft


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Math Skills Games Box (Grades 5-8)  New  
Kit includes: Adsumudi, Mathopoly, Proof!, Qwixx, and Yahtzee

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Reading & Spelling Games Box (Grades K-3)  New  
Kit includes: Bananagrams, Pop for Blends, Pop for Sight Words, Pop for Sight Words 2, Sight Words Game, and Word for Word.
A cloth bag shaped like a banana. The bag has alphabetic tiles spilling out.A popcorn box with game pieces shaped like popcornTwp popcorn boxes with game pieces shaped like popcorn4 flyswatters, many colourful word tiles shaped like bugs, sight word listsOpen game box with colourful word tiles inside. Next to the box is a egg timer and a scorecard.


Spelling Games Box (Grades 4-9)  New  
Includes: Dabble, Double Bananagrams, A Little Wordy, Snippets, and Upwords

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Strategic & Critical Thinking Skills Games Box (Grades 3-6)  New
Kit includes: Battleship, Blokus, Connect 4, Kanoodle Head to Head, Taco vs Burrito, and UNO
 

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Social Studies Games Box (Grades 7-12)   New   
Includes: Catan, Catan Dice Game, Catan Starfarers, Horizons of Spirit Island, Pax Emanicpation, and Spirit Island

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Social Studies Games Box (Grade 8)  New  
Includes: Bonsai, Floating World, Pax Renaissance, Samurai Battles, and Struggle for Catan

Game box with a bonsai treeGame box with a tsunami imageGame box with an image of a renaissance man with a pen sitting at a busy desk Game box with a armed samuraiOrange box with playing cards in front of it.


Strategic Thinking Games Box (Grades 5-7)   New 
Includes Minecraft Builders & Biomes, Minecraft Portal Dash, Project L, Castle Rampage, and Jenga
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Strategic Thinking Games Box (Grades 7-12)  New  
Includes: 7 Wonders, Chess, Mancala, Qwirkle, and Ticket to Ride 

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