Deep Learning Through Play and Imagination: Game Based Learning Simulations and Role Playing.

Imaginative role-playing (dramatization), game-based learning simulations, and Project-based gamification (Gamified PBL Units) provide 100% student engagement and unparalleled student motivation. Project-based learning units based on real-world problems like climate change gives students a chance to engage and solve local and global problems.

What should the GOAL of PBL learning be? In short, Critical thinking and reasoning, problem-solving and enhanced communication skills. 

Cornucopia | A Free Environmental Simulation Game ONLINE 

High Adventures and genius level engagement in the classroom and project-based learning can and should go hand in hand with imaginative role-playing and game-based learning simulations. Game-based learning simulations can become the ultimate project-based learning experience that transforms, engages, enchants, and motivates all student like no other pedagogical practice. Problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, global awareness, and curiosity are all developed with imagination based learning. 

How do I start? 

1. Start with GAME BOOKs: A gamebook is a book that allows the reader to participate in a simulated adventure by making real choices and consequences. The narrative branches along various paths (using flow charts), typically through the use of letting the reader select two or three choices with positive and or negative outcomes. CYOA Choose Your Own Adventures is one of the most popular. 
2. Try out a pre-made social studies simulation: AMERICAN HISTORY SIMULATIONS, REENACTMENTS, AND EDUCATIONAL GAMES:
3. Start doing your research: Project-Based Learning and Gamification: Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together
4. Join or start a tabletop role-playing game group to understand how simulations are run and the level of engagement. 

Please watch one of the most succinct explanations of the power of creativity and imagination through playing tabletop role-playing games. Critical thinking and reasoning, problem-solving and enhanced communication skills are the true essences of tabletop role-playing games, and game simulations are the ultimate problem-solving environments that have ever been created. 

Real World Environmental Science Problem: The number of honeybees in the United States declined by over 50 percent in the past 60 years If colony collapse disorder is not reversed honeybees may disappear by 2035. 

Game simulations ideas: Many choices or no choice "right" or "wrong", students weigh the causes/effects of their choices on the environment and the global community.

Life After Bees.

A world without pesticides. 

Are bees essential for human life?

10 Examples of Project-Based Learning Activities to Start at your school 

1. Create a school-wide reading buddies program were intermediate students teach primary students how to read
2. Start a food and clothing bank at school
3. Start a native seed collecting program for a seed bank to restore natural wildlands
4. Create an invasive species abatement programs to reduce or eradicate nonnative plants
5. Create a school garden and compost all compostable food waste from your school
6. Students create a chose your own environmental science adventure
7. Students examine the phenomena of immigration by studying and sharing their family trees  
8. Students create their own social studies learning simulation 
9. Plan a fundraiser to buy a filtered water dispenser at your school to reduce plastic bottle use
10. Have your students create their own learning environments and learning schedules

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