Infomancy n. 1.The field of magic related to the conjuring of information from the chaos of the universe. 2.The collection of terms, queries, and actions related to the retrieval of information from arcane sources.

Games Aligned to NY State Standards

February 13th, 2008 by Christopher Harris

Brian Mayer, writing at Library Gamer, has aligned a set of library-friendly board games to the New York State Standards. If you are thinking about gaming in a school library, this is an incredible resource to show how games can be another type of curriculum resource. Brian also provides links to all of the games.

For example:

* Standard 4: Economics Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms.
o Catan Series
o Puerto Rico

See the full list on the Library Gamer blog.

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