Franklin educator uses board game to teach historical lessons [View all]

FRANKLIN —
Their ships reach the shore of Catan, an island of rolling hills and pastures and towering mountains. With wood and bricks, they set out to build settlements and amass resources.

They eventually carve out roads for other villages. Cities spring up everywhere, but supplies grow scarce. Brief alliances and rivalries form. Some seek isolation; others barter willingly with friends and enemies alike, though every exchange is calculated.

Soon, the pioneers find themselves vying for supremacy over Catan, to establish that great empire. Another Rome or Egypt.

Mark Brady announces to the room full of sixth graders that it’s time to move on to their next class. Rapt no longer, the social studies students sigh in disappointment and begin packing away the role-playing board game they had been lost in for the last hour or so.


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