Stories from the Classroom

Collusion, Communism, and Catan...The Best Gamification of a Gov & Econ Class


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One high school and economics teacher loved strategy board games growing up so he decided to turn his government and economics class into a complex game of life where students build their own society and economy...which inevitably invites collusion, lack of resources, hard lessons in investing, and arguments over the free market vs communism.
Imagine Monopoly meets Settles of Catan meets Lord of the Flies meets The World Peace game.
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Stories from the ClassroomBy Thom Gibson

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