EDUCATION TRENDS
Three of the Hottest American Classroom Games Of 2023
Some Say the Listicular Format Is Played Out
1. DUCK DUCK DUCK 🦆🦆🦆
It’s no secret that “Duck Duck Duck” is a play on the children’s classic, “Duck, Duck, Goose”. It’s simple and easy to pick up. What makes this game one of the hottest games of 2023 is how versatile it is. Need to have indoor recess because it’s a rainy day? It’s an excellent choice.
Need to have the students practice avoiding errant disintegrating ceiling tiles? Again, this is a great choice for a game. There are many projectiles zinging around in American classrooms these days, so this modification has become a modern classic.
2. Hangman 🚷
Nothing says this educational institution reinforces the school-to-prison pipeline quite like a game of hangman, the word guessing game. Try encouraging the children to engage with polysyllabic words such as “regulate”, “shakedown”, “systematize”, or “lockdown”.
For extensible lesson planning and cultural responsiveness in the classroom, try a recipe of prison tamales.
Prison Tamales Recipe 🫀🔥
Ingredients:
- Doritos (nacho cheese, hot, or any other flavor)
- canned sausages/ tuna
- hot sauce
Steps:
- Crush Doritos, but be careful not to rupture the bag.
- Add water from sink. Mix until paste consistency.
- Spread paste onto bag in a layer, adding filling in a line. Add sauce. Fold the paste from the other side of the bag over the paste with the filling.
- Sleep on or next to the bag, so it warms up. Approx. 30 minutes.
- Enjoy your institutional feast!
Prison tamales are best enjoyed behind closed doors.
3. Sleepy Sheep 😴🐑
This game is the single best way to find out which of the preposterous families in your class believe in ‘the science’ AKA not being a sheeple. The premise of the game is that one child gets to sit in the teacher’s chair. Whoever is the quietest, AKA gives up their natural rights as a sovereign citizen, gets to become the next shepherd.
Gravitation is just a theory anyway. The sleepiest sheep tend to believe in vaccines and disbelieve the truth about the Mothman. They often make ridiculous claims like “Don’t worry, arthropods are limited in size by their spiracles and would need an oxygen-rich environment to grow that big”. Just total nonsense and poppycock. Stay woke.
Join me next year when we repackage the same exact games because America doesn’t want to deal with gun violence, prison overcrowding, or education yet again.