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Websites for Science games!

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Other games about biology are
medmyst.rice.edu (about hunting down infectious diseases)
Games for change has several game about the environment.
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play
NISE has some games about nanotechnology
http://www.nisenet.org/
Science Netlinks has many things for teaching… some are games, some
are not…
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/resource_index.php
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A History of Immune Attack

Monday, December 7th, 2009

2001 The Beginning:  Gathering Evidence.
The Federation of American Scientists starting gathering research about how technology could be used to transform education in 2001.  Under the guidance of their new president Henry Kelly, the FAS launched the Learning Science and Technology Research and Development Roadmap project, which brought together approximately 100 researchers from the [...]

Art Imitating Life Science

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

So, we make a video game intended to teach students Immunology and cell biology.  So we are obviously interested in the many ways that a creative media like video games, graphic design, song writing, story writing, and even music video can be used to present science effectively.  And let is also remember that the process [...]

McKinley Technology High School learn to design video games, students become intructors

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Edutopia made another video about McKinley High School. It describes an iTEST funded project directed by Dr Kevin Clark at George Mason University, in which high school and college students are trained as instructors and then assist high school teachers during the school year. The high school classes they help to teach are [...]

Using Immune Attack to teach about Internet research.

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I am experimenting with using Immune Attack to get students interested in science.  In particular, to get kids to ask questions about nanotech, chemistry or biology, etc in the game and to research their answer on the Web.  I presented this idea to the students of Mr. Kenneth Leslie’s engineering class at McKinley Technology High [...]

Are we human or are we bacteria?

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

NPR just reported on research done on the various kinds of bacteria that live on our body.  NPR is referring to new report from the lab of Julia Segre, Ph.D., at the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH.   Here is the link to the article that NPR is talking about in PubMedCentral.   Here is the [...]

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