1. Using Educational Games to
Show the Positive Roles:
African Americans Have Made in the
History of the United States.

2. What Is Missing From a
Student’s Television Viewing

3. The Positive Contributions African
Americans Have Made in U.S. History

4. Students Mostly See the Negative
Perceptions of African Americans
• According to the A.C. Nielson report on television watching
(Herr, Norman, 2005), youth will spend 1500 hours per year in
front of the television, and only 900 hours per year in school.
• In a number of media studies (Oliver, 1999; Ford 1997; and
Power, Murphy, and Coover, 1996), researchers found that
African Americans were viewed more negatively after subjects
saw a stereotypic representation on television of them in
movies.
• In another study (Mastro, and Greenberg, 2000), it was found
that African American characters on television were mostly
portrayed as lazy, and ridiculed more than Latino characters.
Additionally, African Americans appeared to be more
provocative in their dress attire and less professionally
dressed than White European Americans.

5. There is Great Opportunity for Students to Learn
Positive Contributions of African Americans

6. How will Students Learn about African
Americans in a Fun and Educational Way

7. The Use of Educational Games like ‘Black Inventors
to Remember Collecting Card Games’ Would Help!
By Exposing Students To the Contributions of African Americans
Name That
Inventor Cards
• Content dealing with
the name of the
inventor, and the
name of the
invention.
• The objective is to
correctly match the
inventor with the
right invention.
Biography
Cards
• Content dealing with
questions that
pertain to the lives of
African American
inventors.
• The objective is to
correctly answer the
question about the
inventor’s life.
Time Cards
• Content dealing with
questions inventors
who historians have
proven to have an
accurate birth place,
birth date as well as
year of death.
• The objective is to
correctly answer the
question about an
event occuring in the
lives of the inventor.

8. The Chain of Race
Relations Would Become
Stronger Not Through
Just Cultural Exposure.

9. How would Race Relations
Also Become Stronger

10. By Using Cooperative
Learning Skills

11. What are Cooperative
Learning Skills?
Its when students engage in small groups. Working together to
maximize their own and each other’s learning. There are five
basic elements to make cooperative learning skills develop, and
they are the following:
1. By making the activities positive interdependence
2. Promoting interaction: face-to-face
3. Individual and group accountability
4. Teaching students the required interpersonal and small group skills
5. Group processing

12. How Will Positive Interactions Result?
• Findings on Cooperative Learning
– Many early studies (Wiegel and Cook, 1975;
Slavin, 1979; Devries, Edwards and Slavin, 1978;
Slavin & Oickle, 1981) found greater positive
interracial interactions when students engaged in
a cooperative learning style more than they did
from being in a traditional style of learning.

13. What’s the Need for This

14. Because Students Still Tend to Stay
Within Their Own Ethnic or Racial
Groups.
Moody(2001) has indicated that there needs to be activities in
the school environment that brings students from different
racial or ethnic groups together. He found in a sample of 130
U.S. public and private schools that segregation still occurred
at the moderate level.

15. Incidents Like These:
Can Still Ignite Racial Tension Between
Different Racial Groups
• Jena 6(top picture) represents
the existing racial tensions
between African Americans and
White Europeans of today.
• The Rodney King Incident
(Bottom picture) sparked a riot
in Los Angeles Communities
about the injustices perceived by
African Americans in the legal
system a few years ago (early
1990’s).

16. What Could Be Done About This

17. Employ Cooperative Learning
Techniques in Educational Games
like ‘Black Inventors to
Remember Collecting Card
Games’
This game would have students learning
African American Inventors in a group
setting by each group competing for
points in a tournament like fashion
because this game was developed using
Cooperative Learning research.

18. Stereotypes that Act as Barriers Will Be
Formed into Solid Bridges of Race
Relations that Will Stand the Test of Time.

19. Students Often Don’t See
Positive Contributions
Made by African
Americans

20. The Use of Educational games
like ‘Black Inventors to
Remember Collecting Card
Games’
Will Help Students See the Whole
Picture of African Americans

21. Students Will Be Exposed to Black
Inventors Who Positively Contributed to
American Society
George Washington Carver was an Inventor of
Many Uses of Peanut Butter and Other
Agricultural Products.

22. Educational Games like Black Inventors to Remember Will
Wipe Out Negative Stereotypes of African Americans

23. THE END