To go into context: Kat and Max went to Daffin park to observe the kids from ______________middle school, while playing at recess. The first thing kids in the age group of 10/11 were run up to us and see what we were talking about to the teacher. They were very interested and wanted to give their input. ALL AT ONCE! What is the meaning of play, how do they do it, and what were some of their favorite activities involving playing with games.
Specifically the words of role playing genre kept coming up. This is where they were able to become some person and have that person perform tasks, online. The game of Millsbury kept coming up with several of the 10 year olds. Also the idea of Neo Pets, Monopoly, Clue,, although they didn’t sound like he knew. The first thing when we said boardgame was Monopoly. Then the little boy got into the game of clue.
The kids separated themselves into groups, playing football, musical instruments, jump rope, some were cheering, others playing on the equipment, and other forms of tag/running around expelling energy.
The professor, Mrs. Anderson, talked about how the kids had a short attention span, and that meant they could probably only keep up a game for maybe 20 mins. This is all speculation, but from an expert on kids attention spans. The kids would work best if they were in groups of 3 or four. The less the numbers, the more that they can involved individually, and work together to actually have fun and learn.
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