Core Skills Analysis
Digital Literacy
- Stella practiced navigating a digital game environment by interacting with Brookhaven on Roblox.
- She encountered game-based interfaces, menus, and virtual locations, building familiarity with digital controls.
- Playing in Roblox provided an opportunity to follow on-screen information and make choices within a simulated world.
Social-Emotional Learning
- Stella had opportunities to explore identity and self-expression through a customizable Roblox experience.
- Brookhaven can support imaginative role-play, allowing her to practice thinking about different everyday roles and situations.
- The activity may encourage decision-making as she chooses where to go and how to participate in the virtual setting.
Language Arts
- Stella may have practiced interpreting written labels, prompts, or chat messages while playing Brookhaven.
- Role-play can encourage storytelling by creating characters, settings, and simple sequences of events.
- Communicating about the game offers opportunities to describe actions, explain choices, and retell what happened.
Mathematics
- Stella may have used basic spatial reasoning while moving through Brookhaven’s virtual environment.
- Navigating locations can involve comparing positions, directions, distances, and routes.
- Game choices may provide informal practice with sequencing actions and recognizing patterns in the environment.
Tips
Tips: Invite Stella to give a short oral tour of Brookhaven using directional words such as near, beside, behind, and across from. Have her draw a simple map of a place she visited and label its features. Extend the role-play into writing by asking her to create a character, setting, and three-event story. Together, discuss safe and respectful online behavior, including protecting personal information and communicating kindly.
Book Recommendations
- The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds: A creativity-focused story that connects with self-expression and making imaginative choices.
- Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts: A thoughtful story that supports discussion of choices, wants, needs, and empathy.
- Hello, Ruby: Adventures in Coding by Linda Liukas: An engaging introduction to computational thinking, sequencing, and problem-solving.
Try This Next
- Create a Brookhaven map worksheet: draw five locations and label their relative positions.
- Write a three-part story about a character’s day in Brookhaven: beginning, middle, and ending.
- Make a digital-safety sorting activity with examples of safe and unsafe information to share online.