Play Like a Pirate

Engage Students with Toys, Games, and Comics

In Play Like a Pirate, Quinn Rollins offers practical, engaging strategies and resources that make it easy to integrate fun into your curriculum. Regardless of grade level, serious learning can be seriously fun with inspirational ideas that engage students in unforgettable ways.

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Serious learning can be seriously FUN! For some, school feels like a chore: boring, monotonous, necessary. But what if school were fun – for you and your students? What would life be like if you felt excited about your lessons? Better yet, what if your students actually looked forward to your class every day?

Yes! School can be simultaneously fun and educational. In fact, as Quinn Rollins explains in Play Like a PIRATE, when your class is engaging and entertaining, students are more likely to remember what they’ve learned.Invite kids to use their imaginations and help them create meaningful connections with your content by making play part of the learning experience. Play Like a Pirate shows you how!

You’ll learn:

  • Why bringing passion to the classroom works – even if it isn’t related to your subject.
  • Why action figures, Hot Wheels, LEGO, and other toys belong in your classroom.
  • Why comic books and graphic novels aren’t “just for fun”
  • How to use or create games that make content memorable all year long.

In addition to insights that will help you remember why you became an educator in the first place, Play Like a Pirate includes practical strategies and QR code links to resources and templates that make it easy to integrate fun into your curriculum. Regardless of the grade level you teach, you’ll find inspiration and ideas that will help you engage your students in unforgettable ways.

"In Play Like a Pirate, Quinn combines insanely innovative strategies and activities to increase student engagement and challenge students to create, all while having a ton of fun. I've used some of his strategies with my own students, who have enjoyed digging through Lego to make representations of New Deal programs and creating historical action figures, complete with awesome accessories. "I've also used Quinn's ideas to engage the undergrads in my social studies methods course, whether through creating a superhero teacher or develop board games to analyze social studies standards. You read it here - college students having fun in an undergrad education course, thanks to many of Quinn's guiding principles and engaging strategies. "One read through Play Like a Pirate will leave your head spinning with numerous concepts that you can incorporate into any class, any age level, and any content area. Quinn mixes pop culture with sound educational theory and provides countless examples for instant integration, all layered with his playful sense of humor. Make sure you have a ton of post-it notes or a pad of paper handy because the ideas will be coming a mile a minute!"
– Chuck Taft, University School of Milwaukee
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