ChicagoQuest is a middle school where teachers, game designers, and curriculum designers collaborate to create a game-like curriculum that is relevant and engaging while teaching 21st-century skills. As part of the curriculum for our integrated math and English class, eighth grade students attempted to uncover the secrets of an ancient secret society called the Pythagorean Brotherhood, based on a historically real secret society. We decided to make an iPad game that related to the narrative of revealing the secrets of the Pythagorean Brotherhood that we could use as the final assessment of students’ understanding of linear equations and the Pythagorean theorem for the trimester-long mission. In this postmortem of The Pythagorean Temple, we detail our design process, outcomes and next steps that came out of our first attempt at applying game-like learning and our curriculum design model to a digital game-like end-of-trimester performance task.
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