Are you searching for an engaging classroom activity that ignites creativity, enhances strategic thinking, and fosters teamwork? Look no further! Introducing EMC² Learning’s Guild Builders, an innovative and dynamic activity designed to transform your classroom into a hub of collaborative learning and excitement.
What is Guild Builders?
Guild Builders is more than just a classroom activity; it’s an adventure that takes your students on a journey of discovery and collaboration. By participating in this playful approach to their learning, students of any age will have the chance to work together to achieve common goals, navigate through tech trees and tech tracks, and experience the thrill of cascading flow mechanics. The best part? Guild Builders can be tailored to fit your classroom schedule, whether you need a quick 45-minute session, an immersive 90-minute experience, or even a multi-day project.
Why Choose Guild Builders?
Game On for Teamwork: In Guild Builders, students are divided into rival guilds looking to develop their respective skill trees and empires of awesome, encouraging your learners to collaborate, communicate, and strategize throughout the lesson plan as they work together to achieve their objectives.
Level Up Students’ Strategic Thinking: Thanks to some clever board game-inspired flow mechanics and cascading skill trees, this activity’s structure requires students to plan their moves carefully, making critical decisions that affect their progress and outcomes.
Fuse Content Knowledge with Creativity: With six different customizable tasks and all sorts of in-activity upgrade tracks, your students can unleash their creativity with everything from LEGO bricks to Emoji Kitchens, all while working towards common goals.
Laughter Meets Learning:Â The cascading flow mechanics of the Guild Builders pedagogy and flexible task order is wide open by design, which keeps students engaged and excited throughout the activity AND encourages your learners to try their hands at this activity again and again.
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How Does Guild Builders Work?
EMC² Learning resources are designed to be low prep for teachers and high engagement for students. Getting started with Guild Builders is a snap! And each activity comes complete with a fully editable resource slideshow, a teacher video tutorial, and a step by step instructional guide to help you bring the lesson to life in your classroom. Here’s a glimpse into the flow of the lesson:
Set Your Sights on Glory
In Guild Builders, rival teams compete to lay become the most epic guild in all the land. And throughout the activity, these student groups will have to work together with their teammates with the hope of being the team to earn the most points by completing tasks in six different categories.
Rack Up Icons for Quality Work
Each activity page features icons that students mark off once their work is approved by the teacher. And with more than 60 different activity slides for each team to complete by the challenge’s end, this means every student in every group is constantly engaged in meaningful, on-task learning throughout your lesson plan — and never waiting “on the bench” for other teams to take their turns.
Unlock Cascading Bonuses as You Go
Earning points in Guild Builders will have your students marking off their printable score sheets as they make strategic discoveries throughout the entire activity. This eliminates the typical student disinterest that comes from falling behind during a typical blowout victory and gives every team the chance to get back in the game no matter what they’re working on at any time. To give every squad even more incentive to keep fighting right up until the final bell sounds, shading certain boxes can trigger cascades, allowing for all kinds of strategic planning and excitement.
Choose Your Own ED-venture
With six different activities to choose from (and more than 60 different slides worth of submissions awaiting their creative input!), your students have the power to choose the order in which they complete tasks, adding an even higher element of student-centered strategy to the Guild Builders gameplay. As the game evolves, your students will unlock powerful cascades of scoring opportunities based on the choices that they make along the way — so there’s never a dull moment or a reason to feel like your squad doesn’t still have a puncher’s chance to get back in the fight to score the ultimate last-minute upset victory!
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Ready to Transform Your Classroom?
Guild Builders isn’t just about earning points; it’s about the journey and the skills students develop along the way. From teamwork and leadership to strategic thinking and creative problem-solving, this awesome activity offers learners of any age and any content area a highly themed and holistic learning experience. As your classes get a feel for the activity gameplay, teachers can also award additional benefits or penalties based on the quality of the group’s work, adding in new layers of depth and replay value to this epic and open ended approach to any lesson plan.
Guild Builders is the perfect addition to any curriculum, providing an interactive and enriching experience for students of all ages. Whether you’re looking to fill a single class period or plan a multi-day project, Guild Builders offers the flexibility and excitement you need to keep your students engaged and motivated.
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