Tabletop RPG Classroom: In-Game Chemistry Lab for High School Students
Check out below for tips on how to structure a tabletop RPG around chemistry class experiments for high school group to support coursework and active learning!
Category: Education
Interview with Garrett Munro from Tabletop EDU
Garrett Munro is an instructor with fifteen years of educational TTRPG experience, and he is also one of the founders of TabletopEDU, a non-profit aimed at providing educators with TTRPG materials for their classes and programs. Check out hear to learn from Garrett’s backstory, XP, and wisdom!
Using TTRPGs to learn and teach math
This discussion is going to focus specifically on how TTRPGs, whether by what they are or if they’re intentionally used in a classroom setting, can be used to teach math skills ranging from addition and subtraction to story problems and applications to advanced mathematics!
This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG and TTRPGkids – Back to School!
In this episode of “This Month in Children’s RPGs”, we chat about some cool projects that we’re seeing pop up on the radar AND get into some ideas for back-to-school TTRPGs while discussing how TTRPGs can be great educational tools (both in the classroom and out)!
Tabletop RPG Classroom: In-Game Chemistry Experiments for Middle School Kids
Check out below for tips on how to structure a tabletop RPG around chemistry class experiments for a middle school group to support coursework and active learning!
Interview with Austin Baker, TTRPG prof
Today’s chat is with Austin Baker, creator of “Lieberstein Living Museum”, and educational TTRPG/LARP that has been used with college students! I was really excited to meet another TTRPG college professor, and he’s got a great game to share with everyone along with some wonderful experiences and insights about TTRPGs and EDU.
Learning to learn through TTRPGs
Today’s article talks about how TTRPGs help us practice skills and attitudes that foster a love of learning and help us to be good at it!
Tips and Tricks: DIY Area of Effect Aide for TTRPGs + Geometry Lesson for Young Kids
In this tips and tricks post, I’m going to show an easy way to help with area of effect zones in tabletop RPGs using a very simple kid-friendly craft! I also show how you can use these to teach key concepts to young kids, like counting by fives, what a radius is, and understanding diagonals while also getting into how to level this up for higher concepts (i.e. using different shapes or teaching volume/circumference).
TTRPGkids on Ludology Podcast, Episode 15: Breakdown of Inspirisles as an EDU TTRPG
TTRPGkids has a regular spot on Ludology Podcast, and in this part of the series, I’ll be talking about educational TTRPGs! Episdoe 15 breaks down how Inspirisles provides an EDU focused game with its mechanics and format to showcase elements that make an EDU TTRPG just that.
Tabletop RPG Classroom: In-Game Chemistry Experiments for Elementary School Kids
Kicking off a new type of TTRPGkids article, check out below for tips on how to structure a tabletop RPG around chemistry class experiments to get kids, either at home or in school, engaged with some awesome science lessons! This first article will cover how to structure a classroom game with an example experiment set and story for kids in elementary school. Future articles will include examples for middle school and high school, so stay tuned too!