School Library System Game Library

The School Library System of Genesee Valley Educational Partnership has developed a collection of games appropriate for use in school libraries. While these are not “educational games” all of the games are linked to New York State curriculum standards including math, ELA, and social studies standards.

Based on research about gaming, we strongly believe that games are an important part of development. They provide a learning environment that presents a variety of new challenges, supports creative problem solving, and provides support for overcoming failure.

As learning centers that provide a variety of instructional, informational, and entertaining resources for schools, it is only natural that libraries also provide games. The games are available for two week loans to our member libraries. We also provide professional development support to help librarians and students learn how to play the games or to help them set up a gaming program that is appropriate for their libraries.

Police Alarm

Grade(s): 
Elem./Middle
Time to Play: 
20
Min. Players: 
2
Max. Players: 
4
Return: 
Medium

One player is the band of thieves, attempting to break into safe deposit boxes. The other player is the police, trying to hunt them down before they escape. While the police scoots around a magnetic board looking for the thieves, the criminal rolls the dice attempting to break open the safe deposit boxes.

Polizei-Alarm! is an action/dexterity game for 2-4 players (although only two sides play against each other).One side plays a gang of safe-crackers who try to throw the correct combinations for the safes with some special dice under time-pressure.

Dexterity Game | HABA | Memory | Simultaneous Action