Games are a popular activity in afterschool programs, clubs, project meetings, youth events, and camps. They’re fun and also provide potential health benefits and social-emotional development opportunities. This Extension curriculum includes activity cards designed to support “life skills” development in youth. In addition to learning techniques of experiential education, practitioners gain skills in intentionally selecting games that support specific social-emotional development areas. Youth professionals equipped with discussion skills and a set of strategies increases successful outcomes for youth programs
Prosocial skills can involve positive social interactions such as appropriately conversing with peer...
Children learn social and emotional skills from their peers, parents and people with whom they are i...
Music activities and games are a natural human activity leading to the knowing beauty and peace. Mus...
This article has two broad objectives: (a) It reviews the theoretical and practical literature on th...
Social maladjustment places children at risk in early life as they are integral to many emotional, b...
The current paper provides a reflection about games’ ‘power’ to promote both ‘go- od’ and ‘bad’ lear...
The current paper provides a reflection about games’ ‘power’ to promote both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ learni...
Considering games as a means of social adaptation we can understand humans’ innate need for social i...
The potential of digital games to enhance learning in different areas of child development has drawn...
The thesis describes the process of designing an educational board game for school children that enh...
Playing is an essential need in a child's pre-school period. By playing a child is getting to know t...
This study aims at critically reviewing recently published papers on the use of games for serious pu...
This work covers the first stages of a process for designing and implementing an educational resourc...
Those involved in sport programming have long been in-terested in understanding how to maximize the ...
Gaming and playing are inseparable parts of human nature, and increasingly vast aspect of our everyd...
Prosocial skills can involve positive social interactions such as appropriately conversing with peer...
Children learn social and emotional skills from their peers, parents and people with whom they are i...
Music activities and games are a natural human activity leading to the knowing beauty and peace. Mus...
This article has two broad objectives: (a) It reviews the theoretical and practical literature on th...
Social maladjustment places children at risk in early life as they are integral to many emotional, b...
The current paper provides a reflection about games’ ‘power’ to promote both ‘go- od’ and ‘bad’ lear...
The current paper provides a reflection about games’ ‘power’ to promote both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ learni...
Considering games as a means of social adaptation we can understand humans’ innate need for social i...
The potential of digital games to enhance learning in different areas of child development has drawn...
The thesis describes the process of designing an educational board game for school children that enh...
Playing is an essential need in a child's pre-school period. By playing a child is getting to know t...
This study aims at critically reviewing recently published papers on the use of games for serious pu...
This work covers the first stages of a process for designing and implementing an educational resourc...
Those involved in sport programming have long been in-terested in understanding how to maximize the ...
Gaming and playing are inseparable parts of human nature, and increasingly vast aspect of our everyd...
Prosocial skills can involve positive social interactions such as appropriately conversing with peer...
Children learn social and emotional skills from their peers, parents and people with whom they are i...
Music activities and games are a natural human activity leading to the knowing beauty and peace. Mus...