Game Profile:

Game Title: Rayman Raving Rabbids ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone) Genre: Strategy Grades: 4 - 8 Peripherals Required: 1- 4 Wii Remotes Peripherals Optional: 1- 4 Wii Nunchucks Number of Players: 1- 4 Simultaneous Multiplayer

Game Summary:

Rayman Raving Rabbids features a wide variety of mini-games that focus on different themes and utilize different control schemes. In rhythm music games, players use selective instruments (singing, guitar, drum, keyboard, etc.) to perform as part of a Rabbid band. Each mini-game can be played with up to four players at once, as either Rabbids or Rayman. The mini-games are layered throughout the single-player game and also built out into multiplayer. Some mini-games really test your coordination, asking you to swing the Nunchuk like a jump rope and flicking the Wii Remote up to make Rayman jump.

Alignment to AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner:

3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working with others in cooperative game-play mode. 4.1.8 Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning. 4.2.1 Display curiosity by pursuing interests through multiple resources.

Alignment to NYS Learning Standards:

ELA Standard 2C Language for Literary Response and Expression - Students understand the literary elements of setting, character, plot, theme, and point of view and compare those features from the game to their own lives. ELA Standard 4C Language for Literary Response and Expression - Students read and discuss digital text within the gaming experience to learn the conventions of social writing.

Possible Curriculum Connections:

English Language Arts / Language for Social Interaction English Language Arts / Language for Literary Response and Expression

OCM BOCES SLS/August 2009