What do you do most often in your free time? This is one of the questions we asked peers – elementary school students. Of the possible options, the most common answer was: I play computer games. The project we are dealing with as part of the 1st edition of the Exchange of Brilliant Ideas is a social project, i.e. one whose task is to diagnose the problem of a specific age group and then propose a way to solve it.
After conducting and analyzing the results of a survey on leisure activities, we decided to encourage peers to try another form of leisure, namely board games.
Why board games?
Perhaps not everyone knows how many advantages these very games have. Researchers have found that the benefits of board games include:
- having fun and thus feeling good
- an excellent way to spend time with family and peers
- exercising memory and logical thinking
- stress relief
- stimulating child development
- training creativity
- understanding and obeying the rules
….. and many more.
We will look for confirmation of the numerous advantages of board games during our interview with the psychologist.
During our meetings at the Learning Generator, in addition to the serious tasks of:
- learning the principles and examples of social projects
- finding out the rules of working in a group
- finding the pros and cons of working in a group (we found the former much more)
- learning about the principles of creating surveys, preparing our survey and analyzing the collected responses.
There is also what we like best, which is visits to the media room, where we learn about the board games available there. There are a lot of these games, also it takes us a long time to learn the rules and play them. We also participate in meetings with the GraTy Foundation from Krosno, which organizes workshops on role-playing and board games in the Jaslo Generator. The gentlemen from the foundation are a mine of knowledge about games and an invaluable source of information on organizing game marathons. During the last such event in Krosno, more than 1,000 people attended! We hope that the crowning event of our project, a marathon of board games and role-playing games, will be at least partially as successful.
Elementary school students are invited to fill out a survey on free time. And we already invite you to our board and role-playing games marathon in March.
Bartek, Igor, Wiktor, Blażej and Franek
The GGP task is implemented within the framework of the project: “Jasło – City of Knowledge” implemented within the framework of the project financed from the funds of the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the state budget titled “Jasło – my city, my home”.
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