About 7 Gen Blocks

7 Gen Blocks has everything you need to take educational software from an idea to in your students hands.

This includes not just a point and click game development platform but also the game narrative, images and math problems that can take a lot of time to create – time teachers don’t have. All of these resources can be swapped out or modified to suit your needs.

7 Gen Blocks is our no-code platform that allows almost anyone to make an educational game. To create a game, teachers type in text, select from images and click their way through to a completed game that can be played in a web browser. The number one message, loud and clear, in meeting with educators is that teachers don’t have enough TIME. As lot of the time in making a game is finding or creating images, editing images to the right dimensions, creating problems and writing dialogue, we’ve done much of that work for you. Because our beta users have found worked examples to be helpful in learning, we included

What’s in 7 Gen Blocks?

7 Gen Blocks EDU includes the following:

1. Documentation (you are here!)
   • Design a game – START HERE
   • How to block overview
   • Making a visual novel
   • Making a drag and drop assessment
   • Creating a search game
2. Example games made with blocks
3. Web-based interface for creating a game that you can use today, including image sets
4. Sample math problems
5. Starter scripts
6. Lessons using games

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Supplemental materials

All of the above can be accessed within the web interface itself. In addition, because teacher time to design games is limited, we’ve included sample scripts, math assessment and lessons to serve as a basic template. These can be used as-is or modified.

• scripts – Every game needs a narrative, so we have provided some samples you can use or modify. Based on years of research, we have broken scripts into less than three-minute blocks
• math problems – Thirty sample assessments are provided using the drag into categories block. As additional assessment blocks are released, accompanying samples will be provided.
• lessons – Teachers have told us they like the idea of game-based assessment and instruction but they don’t have the time to write new lessons or units to include these games. We have developed the Growing Math site, with a searchable database of complete units, lessons, virtual manipulatives and games made using blocks.

Blocks Example Games

Minnesota Turtles : Another short demo, integrating math and science.

Bake-off : This is a short demo level assessing division of unit fractions. Students who answer incorrectly are re-taught the information in a video, complete a scaffolded assessment and then re-take the assessment.
* Differentiated instruction – For students who cannot complete the assessment after instruction within the game, it may be necessary to step back to fraction basics. A 30-40 minute introduction to fractions lesson can be found here.

FAQs

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