249 – Gameschooling Interview – The Family Gamers Podcast
We continue our gameschooling series by interviewing the student himself, our son Asher.
249 Fact – “Lot No. 249” is a Gothic horror short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Read it here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Lot_No._249
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What We’ve Been Playing
- Quacks of Quedlinburg
- Abandon All Artichokes (our review)
- Quatorze (our review)
- Tutankhamun
- Marvel United
- Mass Transit (our review and our TikTok video)
- Zombie Kidz Evolution
Gameschool Summer Badges from the Gameschool Co-op: https://gameschoolcoop.com/summer/ and scroll down to “Meeple Badges”.
SNAP Review – Mass Transit
Watch the video or read the transcript on our website: https://www.thefamilygamers.com/mass-transit/
Giveaway
Go Cuckoo! (sponsored by HABA) – only on The Family Gamers Community.
The Independence Incident and a Meeple Spatula (sponsored by Grand Gamers Guild) – enter at https://www.thefamilygamers.com/grill-and-chill-giveaway
Gameschooling Interview
Asher was nervous to start homeschooling, especially moving out of public school.
His brother and sister are jealous because he spends less time on schoolwork, but he’s jealous because the public school system issued them iPads.
He was super excited and happy to learn we’d be using board games as part of schooling.
His favorite subjects? “Either math or science.” We were surprised but, “there’s the math in board games, those are fun.”
Favorite science game: Periodic, a Game of Elements (more on this in our gameschooling for science post).
He feels he learned the most from Periodic and Subatomic.
We also discuss Orbital Velocity (our review).
Asher surprises us with his opinions on the history games we played. We highly recommend The Grizzled and Pan Am.
What did Asher like about the Timeline games? Although he often walked away frustrated, he really was learning and enjoyed that part. Surprise!
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