The game "Gazillionaire" is an excellent choice for your classroom. This is economics education software for your high school students. It is a wonderful tool for reinforcement of the core concepts for your classroom.
The core concepts that it covers are:
- Economics
- Math
- Business
- Some Logic
If you wish to download an educational guide to implement this into your classroom, then you may download that guide here.
You can download the game for free here.
Some ideas to incorporate this game into your class schedule would be:
- Start the day with a brief review of the core concepts, which you can choose based on your school requirements.
- Then assign partners for the game as "business teams".
- Have them go into their "business teams" and create a basic plan for how to make a business a success. All you need here is a basic outline from the students.
- Have them name the business.
- Allow them to each take a turn playing the game and using the outline that they have created. This allows them to see how the business that they have created holds up to the game. The game will test the business outline and their ability to formulate a basic plan for their success with that business.
- Conclude the project with a presentation of their business and how successful or un-successful it would be in the real world.
