Game-based learning refers to the borrowing of certain gaming principles and applying them to real-life settings to engage users (Trybus, 2015). The motivational psychology involved in game-based learning allows students to engage with educational materials in a playful and dynamic way. Game-based learning is not just creating games for students to play, it is designing learning activities that can incrementally introduce concepts, and guide users towards an end goal.

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Below you can see a lesson plan to put game based learning into practice. The game I have used is Scattergories, because I find it an easy, simple and fun game to adapt to any of the curricular contents. In my case, I have adapted it to review vocabulary and grammar, as well as to practice writing and speaking skills. All that with just a game, isn't it amazing? 

 

This lesson plan has been created by working online on shared Word file.  Microsoft Word for the web is a tool that lets you make basic edits and formatting changes to your document in a web browser, that is, you can work with documents directly on the website where the document is stored.

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