Name: _________________________________ Date: _______________________________ Period: _____
Board Game – Project Board Instructions
Create a game based off of your assigned body system. Design your own, unique idea for a board game!
Something you need to keep in mind is that board games are fun, interactive, structured and NOT TRIVIA
GAMES. Don’t make this Jeopardy! Use your creative minds to think of ways to relate this material to
creating a board game. Below is a list of examples of different types of games out there.
Board Game List
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Apples to
Apples
Settlers of
Catan
Battleship
Candy Land
Checkers
Chess
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Chutes and
Ladders
Clue
Connect Four
Uno
Cranium
Ticket to Ride
Guess Who?
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Spades
Hungry Hungry
Hippos
Life
Monopoly
Mouse Trap
Operation
Payday
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Pictionary
Scene It
Scrabble
Sorry!
Trouble
Yahtzee
Requirements:
Each board game made must have the following items included in the project:
 Actual playing board: including game pieces and any necessary devices to complete your designed
game.
 Game theme, questions, statements, layout, design must be related to your body system.
 Rules/Directions: The rules must be typed, understandable, and applicable. (How to play the game)
 Neat and organized
 Creative, colorful, and appealing!
 Must be playable. (Clinic must play)
 All facts must be accurate.
Grading:
Your games will be graded on the following criteria:
 Related to your body system, using key terms, themes and concepts
 Creativity, uniqueness of the game
 Neatness, and organization of the game
 Directions of the game are either typed up or written clearly and explained thoroughly
 Rules of the game are described very well, so people know what they can and cannot do!
 Grammar, spelling, and punctuation of directions, rules, and of game board—your game needs to be
understandable!
 Playability—if you make it, you are going to want to play it!
Grading Rubric:
Below is a guideline on how you will be graded for your game board. You should be able to go through this
and know exactly what is expected of you to earn the grade you want.
CATEGORY
Application of
knowledge
Excellent
Good
Average
Poor
15 points max
(10 – 14) points max
(6-9) points max
5 points max
All information made All information made Most information made
for the game is
for the game is
for the game is correct,
correct, relates to your correct, relates to your relates to your body
body system, applied body system, applied system, applied in a
in an excellent
in a good way and
playable way and
playable way and demonstrates students demonstrates basic
demonstrates vast
grasp of the subject.
understanding of
grasp of subject.
knowledge.
5 points max
Attractiveness
The game board, all
game pieces, and any
other game related
object is colorful,
unique, neat, and has
wonderful visual
appeal.
5 points max
Creativity
4 points max
3 points max
Some information
made for the game is
correct, somewhat
relates to your body
system, applied in an
unplayable way and
demonstrates little
grasp of subject
matter.
2 points max
The game board, all The game board, and The game board and
game pieces, and any
most of the game
the game pieces are
other game related
related pieces are
somewhat colorful,
object is colorful, neat, colorful, neat and a scattered design, and
and has visual appeal.
mediocre appeal.
little to no appeal.
4 points max
3 points max
2 points max
The individual put a lot The individual put
The individual tried to Little thought was put
of thought and great
some thought and
make the game
into making the game
strides into making the
some effort into
interesting and fun, but
interesting or fun.
game interesting and
making the game
some of the things
fun to play as shown interesting and fun to
made it harder to
by creative design,
play as shown by
understand/enjoy the
game pieces and/or creative design, game
game.
game objective.
pieces and/or game
objective.
Knowledge
Gained
Grammar,
Punctuation, and
Spelling
15 points max
(10 – 14) points max
(6 – 9) points max
5 points max
Students could easily Students could easily Students could easily Students could NOT
and correctly state
and correctly state 5- and correctly state 3-5 correctly state facts
several facts about the 10 facts about the
facts about the topic about the topic used
topic used for the
topic used for the
used for the game
for the game without
game without looking game without looking without looking at the looking at the game.
at the game.
at the game.
game.
10 points max
No errors on board,
rules, directions,
cards, or any other
part of game.
10 points max
Rules
Rules and directions
were typed up and
were understandable
that all could easily
participate.
_______/60 Total Points
9 points max
7 points max
6 points max
1-3 errors on board,
4-8 errors on board,
There were many
rules, directions,
rules, directions, cards,
mistakes
cards, OR any other OR any other part of
grammatically
part of game.
game.
throughout the game
and all related
material.
9 points max
7 points max
6 points max
Rules and directions Rules and directions
The rules and
were typed up and
were written up and directions were poorly
were mostly
were somewhat
written or not written at
understandable so understandable so that
all.
that all could easily
players could
participate with little participate with some
confusion.
confusion.