Use RPG Playground to Share Something that Matters to You.

What matters to you? Your culture?  Your family? A favourite sports team? Surfing on Sunday? A certain song? Your pet dog? Everyone has something that matters to them.  Very often we try and explain why these things are so important to us but it is hard to cover all the reasons.  We could plan and write an explanation text to make sure we get our point across, or we could create a video game and let people learn through play.

Learn
RPG Playground is a Role-Playing Game(RPG) creator.  It lets you make games like the birds-eye view video games from the 1980s and 1990s like Zelda and Gauntlet.
RPG Playground is really easy to learn and you can create a basic working game in minutes.  You will need to create an account first and remember to save your work regularly.  But you can share your work with anybody and they will be free to explore your world, meet the characters you have added and learn from the conversations they have.  
Once you are a confident creator, you can even add objects to pick up and give to others meaning that you can go on quests to find important items and cultural artifacts.
Watch the video below to get an idea of how to create an RPG Playground.

Connect

Reading:

This is a great opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of a number of reading strategies as you research your topic.  For example:

Connecting: Using prior knowledge to inform your understanding of a topic and to guide your text choices.

Comparing: Looking at similarities and differences between author style and the information they share on a similar topic

Summarising/ Paraphrasing: Taking a large amount of research and condensing it into the main ideas without losing the meaning.

Evaluating/ Analysing: Looking for consistencies and inconsistencies across different texts to test the reliability of the information.

Synthesising: Taking information from more than one place and bringing it together into one presentation.

Writing:

This is going to be shared with many of the elements of an information report.  You will need to create an introduction as well as main ideas that are spread out across the land.  The last character you meet can be your concluding paragraph. Alternatively, you could look at this in more of a narrative style. Where the character interactions are rich and realistic. They should use interesting vocabulary that suits them, for example a child would talk differently from an adult. People also talk differently depending on who they are talking to and what is happening. For example, would you talk the same way to a king on his throne as you would to your best friend on a swing?

Social Studies:
Depending on what topic you decide to share, this could connect to Social Studies very easily.  You may choose to share about your cultural origins or a significant event in history that has affected your family.  You could write about concerns you have about the future, such as political or environmental issues.

Art/ Music/ PE
If you are interested in a particular style of art or music you could use RPG playground to teach another person all about it.  If your 'thing' is sports, you could teach about the history of your favourite team or even a set of instructions on how to play the game.


Share:
If you have another idea for how you can use RPG in the classroom, then leave a comment in the box below.

Also, if you would like to share your game, post a link to it below so that others can be inspired. 

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Please be kind! If you take the time to look at someone's work, please let them know your thoughts!