Brainsnake is a game similar to Cards Against Humanity that gets students to draw connections between ideas, argue a contention, have fun and be humorous about an academic subject. Honestly I would say it is the best game I have ever made for academic purposes.

Set up

1. teams of 3-4
2. each team needs
   1. set of “Vote 1/2/3/4” cards
   1. a number card in front of them – this is the number you are in the game
3. deal out 5 concept cards to each person
4. 5-10 tokens in the middle of the table

Play

1. turn over the A3 info sheet
2. each person look at the 5 cards they have.
3. each person picks the 2 cards that they think together best explain or can be applied to the picture
4. place those two cards face up in front of yourself
5. go around each person, they explain why their two cards best explain the A3 info sheet
6. everyone takes one of their “Vote” cards and votes for one person whose explanation was the most convincing. put that ‘vote’ card face down in front of yourself
7. turn over all the ‘vote’ cards
8. the person with the most people who voted for their explanation wins the token for that round
9. take each person’s 2 concept cards they used in that round and put then back in the pile
10. shuffle all the used concept cards and deal out again until everyone has 5 again
11. REPEAT!

Here are those rules:

(all PDFs on this site with passwords – it’s my last name)

All version of the game need the voting cards: (print double sided A4 in colour and probably also laminate)

And a set of numbers on cards just to identify each player with a number (so you can vote for their idea): (print double sided A4 in colour and probably also laminate)

Each game requires a set of “stimulus” A3 documents, and a set of concept cards. These are specific to the subject… The stimuli documents can be printed A3 in colour and probably don’t need laminating. The concept/playing cards should be printed double sided A4 and probably do need laminating.

Year 12 Sociology – “Australian Indigenous Culture” topic:

Year 7 History

Year 7 Geography

Year 8 History

Year 8 Geography