Games in the classroom are possibly the fastest route to becoming teacher of the year! I have yet to meet a person who doesn't like games, and definitely have not encountered a student who would rather make flash cards than play a vocabulary review game. This week, it's all about the games- different styles, formats, and interactive scenarios to make our content more fun! Game-Based Learning Game-based learning is the specific use of games to achieve educational outcomes (Bohyun, 2015) . This is one of the easiest ways to incorporate games into a pre-made lesson or unit. Games have been shown to have powerful effects on the brain, and can help motivate students to keep trying until they can "beat" that challenge (Hanson-Smith, 2016), so let's apply that to some otherwise boring test review. For ninth graders, socializing and games are the best things they could hope to do in school. And more now than ever, many schools are ensuring that each student has a compu...