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But the twist is: their peers are not allowed to speak. This means that students are forced to restructure their questions to get clearer responses while learning how to read subtle body language.

Meanwhile, the students being asked must be creative with how they act-out what they want to portray, exercising their creativity and critical thinking. This is the time to play games that teach them more practical skills to help them thrive in the workplace, and ultimately, find success in their chosen field.

Hold mock job interviews and let them practice their spiels and responses to tough questions. Each panel member can be given a secret attitude or character just to keep your students on their toes and always thinking of creative ways to respond to different scenarios.

Group your students into groups and provide them with difficult moral questions like, is the death penalty necessary, or, should immigration laws be stricter. Each dilemma is meant to practice their empathy, decision-making skills, and critical thinking. These games are all meant to teach your students valuable lessons about navigating life and, ideally, how to manage themselves, their emotions, and how they can react to situations in a positive, healthy, and productive manner.

While it is a lesson-teaching activity, try to make it as fun as possible. Your email address will not be published. Empathy Role Play Empathy is one of the hardest things to teach.

Empathy Board Game. How It Works: Students will work in partners and small groups to get through an empathy game board.

Their spot on the game board and the spinner will tell them how to answer each card. For example, they might have to answer: Why does it matter?

How might they feel? What might they be thinking? What might you do? Students might also have to act out what they would do in that situation. There are over unique situations that help kids discuss and build empathy over real-life scenarios. How It Works: Create a list of different actions or have the kids come up with them themselves.

Any action will do! Some examples might be waiting at the bus stop, sharpening your pencil, listening to music, running in a race, taking notes in class, and so on. The idea is that kids will randomly choose one action and act it out for the others to guess. By acting out these scenarios, students will need to consider what social cues would be aligned with that activity.

Best of all, this is a quick activity you can do with just a few minutes of class time left that kids will love. We all experience tough emotions, setbacks, or challenges along the way.

How we handle those difficulties can make a big impact on our success. Sometimes, kids cannot self-soothe without being explicitly taught these strategies. Kids and young adults need to learn they can take a quick walk, write in a journal, take deep breaths, and use positive self-talk to calm themselves and feel better in moments of difficulty.

How It Works: Using a one-page board, students will take turns rolling and spinning. Depending on what they roll and spin, they will fall on a space with a coping strategy that they will have to practice. Once they practice that strategy, they can cover up the spot with a chip.

Note that students can have their own boards or share if you have different colored chips. The first person to get one whole row across wins! Ultimately, the idea is that kids are practicing a wide variety of coping strategies, giving them access to more skills when they truly need them.

In this activity, students can improve their emotional vocabularies by discussing a variety of different feeling words and what they mean.

It also helps to normalize talking about different emotions and being comfortable sharing how we are feeling in the moment.

Getting kids talking about emotions is key. Using the Uno colors, discuss what each of the colors might mean. Blue can stand for feeling sad, tired, bored, or sick. Green stands for feeling happy, calm, focused, and in control.

Yellow means feelings frustrated, worried, or nervous. Finally, red should stand for angry. For those just looking to enjoy a calm fight, the scenery is breathtaking. If you love playing games, you may have even wanted to attempt to make your own. Coding isn't for everyone but that's where Nintendo's Game Builder Garage comes in. The easy-to-use interface allows anyone to become a video game designer.

The step-by-step lessons and guides make it easy to learn the basics of creating a game from start to finish. There are seven games to design in the guided part but in "Free Programming Mode" you can take what you have learned and truly let your imagination run wild.

Have you always wanted to learn how to play guitar or bass but lessons are expensive and don't fit your schedule? Rocksmith changes all that, bringing the lessons and basics right into your living room. For those familiar with Rockband, which had a drum element to it teaching your rhythm and techniques, this title focuses more on Guitar.

An updated version of Guitar Hero. What separates this title from others that came before is you can use your real guitar to play instead of a controller shaped like a guitar like those utilized in the past. Another cool feature is Rocksmith gets you ready to read tablature, a form of musical notation, which is how music and songs are learned offline and online.

In today's mostly online world and especially with work and school being done more remotely, typing effectively has become more important than ever. If you find your typing skills lacking The Typing of The Dead: Overkill title takes enhancing your typing skills to a whole new level. It's actually a spin-off of the popular arcade shooter House of the Dead. Fans of killing zombies will especially love using it because your keystrokes and how accurate you are with spelling is how you defeat them.

The faster you type the faster they fall. Move over Mavis Beacon there is a new typing teacher in town! Thanks to technology, art now comes in many forms these days, especially digitally. Colors Live!