Wild Wild West! – Reading Game

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Saddle up your horses, we’re going for a ride!

This was a cute game, meant for the yung’uns.  You are a little sheriff, and you have to find the outlaws and lasso them into submission!  Except there’s a trick.  The outlaws say the DEFINITION of their name, instead of their name and you have to puzzle it out!  The game is simple, and fun using only the left and right arrow keys (to move) and the spacebar (to lasso).

I skimmed over the instructions the first time and was a bit confused about them.  Even after I read through them a second time a bit slower, I was still a bit confused, but I definitely got the hang of it once I started playing.

Yaarg… There be my villan!  His name be “Vacate”.  I be catchin’ him soon.  Aarrr….

Except for the part that this is a cowboy game.

There I am on the top in the white cowboy hat.  Below me are the bad guys, and I have to find the one called “Vacate”.

 

 

Catching a villan with my lasso!  PS: Is it Lass-ooo or Lass-oh?

 

 

Look!  I caught him!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILD WILD WEST GAME – LINK HERE

Recommended Age: Grades 2-4

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Design a Cell Phone

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This was a really fun game.  But REALLY hard.  While I am writing this, I am STILL trying to win the game.  Maybe you will be smarter than me… but I just can’t seem to accomplish very much in this game.  Please tell me if you do make it bigger!  I’m kind of frustrated.

 
Ahh… the homepage… so unsuspecting. Of what to come.







Step One: Research.  You’re given all the information you’ll need regarding what the consumer wants including graphs and personal testimonies.

 


See!  A graph!






The design bit.  This part was fun.  Lots of fun






You also get to talk to testers about your product before moving into production!







See. I’m really awful at this.  I didn’t reach the goal at ALL.


 CELL PHONE GAME – LINK HERE
Recommended Age: Grades 8 through 10
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• Fun Factor level is based on the frustration that occurred when I couldn’t seem to make ANYONE happy.

Food, Glorious Food!

Oh no!  Miss B’s game was taken down off the internet!  Click here to read her shocking discovery.  Read on to hear about how much fun Miss B had. 

Miss B. does not have a green thumb.  Miss B. doesn’t even have a black thumb.   She has more like a black stare.  Or a black presence.  Either way, plants die when Miss B. is around.

But not here!  Miss B. is a gardening FIEND!

You do need to sign up for this site, but it’s so cute and it’s something all your own

Miss B. finds Picture Three to be the most appropriate to her outward appearance.  She also does not want e-mails.  How convenient! 

Look at the cute plants I’m growing!  This site is dedicated to letting kid’s realize where their food comes from and the responsibility that comes from growing your own foods.

You have to water your plants so that they grow.  They actually take approximately the same amount of time to grow as real vegetables!  In 42 days, if I don’t virtually kill them…

Watering my pumpkin seeds…. unlike real life they talk to you and tell you when they’re angry or need more, or if you’re doing the right thing.  Unlike real life where you never know until they a) don’t sprout or b) turn brown.

This is a good, cute game, but it’s definitely something that takes time.  It’d be good for homeschooler’s curriculum or kindergarten.  There will be more updates as I grow things.

But with my luck, they probably won’t grow…

 

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD – LINK HERE

Recommended Age: Kindergarten to Grade 3

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Updates later!

How Miss B. Grades

I was thinking, how do I grade these games and sites I look at?  Maybe I should write an informative post on how I grade things.  Just to be clear so there’s no one sitting there thinking “will this REALLY be appropriate for my child(ren)?”

Here, folks.  Are my answers. 

I grade on three levels.  Recommended Age, Difficulty Level, and Fun Factor.  I encourage feedback.  If you think that the grading is wrong, tell me!  I’ll listen and adjust as needed.  I’m freewheeling that way. I’ll break it down for  you.

Recommended Age: Instead of breaking it down into numerical age, I’ve suggested different grade levels that may be best appropriate for the particular site or game.  I considered classifying the different themes and topics within the British Columbia public school curriculum.  If I  had gone this route for example, I would have highlighted the Mummy Maker specifically under Grade 7.  However, since the game is comprehensible for children in grades below 7, I picked what I saw as the most appropriate grade level for the site.  Younger children may need help from Big Kids, and older children may breeze through and find it disinteresting.  In either instance, your feedback is greatly appriciated, taken into account, and factored into my grading system.

Difficulty Level: This is based solely on the difficulty of the content, and the maneuverability of the site.  The more difficult to comprehend the material (how things are worded and the ease in which the instructions are written), the higher the Lightbulb Level.  The easier to maneuver (eg.  No weird codes, button clicking, mouse moving theatrics) the lower the level.  I rate both these on a scale of 0-4 then average and round the numbers.  It’s about the most math savvy I get.  Or am for that matter

Fun Factor: No mathematical formulas here.  If I find it fun, then it gets a higher Thumbs Up.  If it’s not as fun, lower thumbs up.  This is JUST MISS B’S OPINION.  If I get more feedback, I will happily adjust the Fun Factor.  My Thumbs Up is not the final answer.

 

With love,

Egyptian Mummy Maker

The Royal London Museum had many piece on tour to different museums and it chronicled different cultures throughout the decades beginning with Early Man, working it’s way through the Egyptian period to the rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire all the way to the Pacific cultures and Asia.  Concluding the exhibit was “where we are today” with pictures of popular culture and artifacts from today. 

This game instantly reminds me of when I went to the museum in the summer.  We were in line (the Math Wiz and I) and in front of us was this little girl and her mom.  She was talking away about what they were going to see and how excited she was about living in Victoria.  We enter the museum and she makes a beeline straight for the Egypt part of the exhibit. 

I kind of meandered my way through Early Man, not particularly liking the early bits of world history.  The replica of the Rosetta stone was neat… but that’s beside the point.  This little girl hopped right on up to this sarcophagus and starts looking at it.  The museum volunteer starts asking her a lot of questions.  Like, “Who do you think this coffin belongs to?”

“Just by looking at the SARCOPHAGUS you can tell it’s someone royal because of the bird that’s on it and how it’s made.  You can see the gold parts along the top and …”

This little girl rocked.  And I mean really rocked.  The museum volunteer was correcting her along the way “We were told by the London museum that it’s not a royal person, but it was definitely someone wealthy.”

The mom stood there smiling and then gave this girl a big hug.  “She’s my little Egyptologist.  Sometimes I think she knows more than the museum curators.”

This mom rocked.

Either way, the entire situation pretty much rocked.

On with the game.

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It’s an incredibly informative game. So packed full of information, that if I didn’t know what a lot of the terms were I might be a bit lost.  This game is probably for someone a little more Egypt inclined than your average school child, but in the big picture you can learn a LOT in a short time.  The game talks a lot about the cultural importance of Egyptian mummy-making, and why they did each individual step.

You are an assistant to the chief embalmer in Egypt.  You make all the decisions toward a particular person’s mummy.  Get it wrong, and the person will not  be admitted to the afterlife and is doomed to be in purgatory not being alive and not being dead.  There’s quite a lot of weight on your shoulders!

 

There is no holding back in this game for sure.  It details how they extracted the brain and which tool is used.

 

 

 

Very graphic.  All with attributes of Ancient Egyptian art too.  That is a brain pouring into a bowl. 

 

 

 

Picking which organs should be left in the body prior to mummification.

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Egyptian hieroglyphics.  For something fun, but relatable to this topic, click here: Hieroglyphic Alphabet Translator Make your own name into hieroglyphics!

 

 

Miss B had fun with this one!

 

MUMMY MAKER GAME – CLICK  HERE!

Recommended Age: Grades 3-7

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Related Links:

Woodlands Jr. School in the UK – Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt for Kids

Do you want to be a Mathionaire?

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Now, Miss B. isn’t particularly fond of or any good at math.  This is why she has the Math Wiz.  Today’s review is of a game made by a person of British (English?  I recall my history of England teacher referring to them as both.  Please forgive me if I’ve offended anyone) origin.  I only know this because instead of winning a million dollars, I won a million pounds.  Which I believe equals approximately 1,695,415 in my home currency.  Which I think is a pretty good deal.  Or so the Math Wiz tells me.

I started off playing the game at a nice level.  I level I can handle.  The first question I didn’t have to use Microsoft Calculator on.  Which was nice.  Really nice actually.  It made me think I had a chance.

 

 

Ha ha ha… no way.  By the time I got here I was using my calculator more than is probably normal.  Miss B.  isn’t good at math.  The Math Wiz says I count “One, Two, Three, Jellybean, 9, 10, oooh… what’s that?”  Miss B’s brain is meant for history and the arts.  Not for science or math.  But because Miss B. understands that not everyone is like her, she tries to review as many different kinds of educational games as possible.  All for you.

Nearing the top here.  I haven’t employed the Math Wiz’s mad skills yet.  I’m doing pretty well for myself, even if it is algebra!

 

 

 

Alright, it’s the bottom of the ninth, and Miss B. is on her last question.  She has used up all her lifelines and is guaranteed a 1 in 4 chance of getting it right.  (At least she learned that much!)  What the computer doesn’t know is that she has… duh duh da daaaa… THE MATH WIZ!!

 

After saying 7 the Math Wiz continues to ask questions such as “why are you asking that?  It’s 10 in the evening?  You don’t do math, why are you doing it?” and I really want to savour the moment of hitting “yes” and winning my 1,000,000 dol….err… pounds.  Miss B. commences to silence the Math Wiz with a satisfactory answer.

Do I doubt the Math Wiz?  Have I ever doubted the Math Wiz?  At least when it comes to numbers?

 

 

 

Of course not!  The Math Wiz is a math wiz for a reason!  Nothing is too hard for the math wiz!

 

 

 

Lookie here at my winnings!  Look at that 1.6 million dollars I won virtually!  Now if only I could get a cheque that big in the mail that didn’t come with having to sign my life and funds away to Random House.

 

 

DO YOU WANT TO BE A MATIONAIRE? – LINK HERE

Recommended Age:  Grades 4-7.  Miss B. is obviously in grade 3 because this was much too difficult for her!

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Happy Adding!