Board Game Project



Board Game Project

During the next several days, you and your partners will be designing your own board game. Remember all those great games you have played? Well, now you can make your own; your own rules, your own design, your own questions! The only thing is, you must relate it to Biology . First, before you start thinking about your “new” design, brainstorm a list of board games that you like to play, or ones that you have played before.

Board Game List

• Risk

• Apples to Apples

• Settlers of Catan

• Backgammon

• Battleship

• Boggle

• Candy Land

• Checkers

• Chess

• Chutes and Ladders

• Clue

• Connect Four

• Uno

• Cranium

• Ticket to Ride

• Texas Hold’em

• Guess Who?

• Spades

• Hungry Hungry Hippos

• Life

• Life on the Farm

• Mall Madness

• Monopoly

• Mouse Trap

• Obsession

• Operation

• Payday

• Pictionary

• Rummikub

• Scene It

• Scrabble

• Sorry!

• Taboo

• Trouble

• Yahtzee

Now, it’s your turn to create a board game based off of our sections in Biology. Create your own, unique idea for a board game! Something you need to keep in mind is that board games are fun, interactive, structured and NOT TRIVIA GAMES. Don’t make this Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit! Use your creative minds to think of ways to relate this material to creating a board game.

Sections of Biology:

• Biomolecules

• Ecology

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration

• Cells

• Cell Transport

• Cell Division

• Taxonomy

• Classification

• Genetics

• Evolution

• Kingdoms of Life

• Plants

• Viruses

• Body Systems

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Grading:

Your games will be graded on the following criteria

• Related to your section of Biology, using key terms, themes and concepts

• Creativity, uniqueness of the game

• Neatness, and organization of the game

• Directions of the game are either typed up or written clearly and explained thoroughly

• Rules of the game are described very well, so people know what they can and cannot do!

• Grammar, spelling, and punctuation of directions, rules, and of game board—your game needs to be understandable!

• Playability—if you make it, you are going to want to play it!

What you need to remember as you are thinking about this is to have fun with it and how can you incorporate the information about Biology into your game while making the game fun and educational

Grading Rubric:

Below is a guideline on how you will be graded for your game board. You should be able to go through this and know exactly what is expected of you to earn the grade you want.

|CATEGORY |Excellent |Good |Average |Poor |

|Application of knowledge |10 points max |9 points max |7 points max |6 points max |

| |All information made for|All information made for|Most information made for|Some information made |

| |the game is correct, |the game is correct, |the game is correct, |for the game is correct,|

| |relates to Biology, |relates to Biology, |relates to Biology, |somewhat relates to |

| |applied in an excellent |applied in a good way |applied in a playable way|Biology, applied in an |

| |playable way and |and demonstrates |and demonstrates basic |unplayable way and |

| |demonstrates vast grasp |students grasp of the |understanding of |demonstrates little |

| |of subject. |subject. |knowledge. |grasp of subject matter.|

|Attractiveness |10 points max |9 points max |7 points max |6 points max |

| |The game board, all game|The game board, all game|The game board, and most |The game board and the |

| |pieces, and any other |pieces, and any other |of the game related |game pieces are somewhat|

| |game related object is |game related object is |pieces are colorful, neat|colorful, scattered |

| |colorful, unique, neat, |colorful, neat, and has |and a mediocre appeal. |design, and little to no|

| |and has wonderful visual|visual appeal. | |appeal. |

| |appeal. | | | |

|Creativity |10 points max |9 points max |7 points max |6 points max |

| |The group put a lot of |The group put some |The group tried to make |Little thought was put |

| |thought and great |thought and some effort |the game interesting and |into making the game |

| |strides into making the |into making the game |fun, but some of the |interesting or fun. |

| |game interesting and fun|interesting and fun to |things made it harder to | |

| |to play as shown by |play as shown by |understand/enjoy the | |

| |creative design, game |creative design, game |game. | |

| |pieces and/or game |pieces and/or game | | |

| |objective. |objective. | | |

| | | | | |

|Knowledge Gained |10 points max |9 points max |7 points max |6 points max |

| |Students in group could |Students in the group |Students in the group |Students could NOT |

| |easily and correctly |could easily and |could easily and |correctly state facts |

| |state several facts |correctly state 5-10 |correctly state 3-5 facts|about the topic used for|

| |about the topic used for|facts about the topic |about the topic used for |the game without looking|

| |the game without looking|used for the game |the game without looking |at the game. |

| |at the game. |without looking at the |at the game. | |

| | |game. | | |

|Grammar, Punctuation, and |10 points max |9 points max |7 points max |6 points max |

|Spelling |No errors on board, |1-3 errors on board, |4-8 errors on board, |There were many mistakes|

| |rules, directions, |rules, directions, |rules, directions, cards,|grammatically throughout|

| |cards, or any other part|cards, OR any other part|OR any other part of |the game and all related|

| |of game. |of game. |game. |material. |

|Rules |10 points max |9 points max |7 points max |6 points max |

| |Rules and directions |Rules and directions |Rules and directions were|The rules and directions|

| |were typed up and were |were typed up and were |written up and were |were poorly written or |

| |understandable that all |mostly understandable so|somewhat understandable |not written at all. |

| |could easily |that all could easily |so that players could | |

| |participate. |participate with little |participate with some | |

| | |confusion. |confusion. | |

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