Teachers’ Guide

Tips & Suggestions

These simple suggestions should help you and your students make the most of your interactive learning experience:

• To facilitate understanding of the concepts illustrated in Pursuit!, 6th and 7th grade students may benefit from a review of game Terms & Definitions before playing.
  
  
• For a well-balanced exploration of "economic growth," we strongly recommend that students play each trail more than once and try out all 6 guides over the course of the lesson.
  
  
• Player performance and student learning can be optimized when emphasis is placed on:
  
  
  • careful reading and a somewhat leisurely exploration of the Timeline, particularly the expandable economic events, and
    
    
  • attentive viewing of the guides' "billboard" animations, particularly the introductions and supplemental dialogues.