Part Two: Integrating the design of a game into your lessons/Using video game design to get your students to interact and learn great amounts from a local scientist.
1. Choose a topic you wish to address.
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Video Games in Class–A Professional Development Course Part One
Part One: Integrating a game into your lessons
1. Decide what to teach. Start with your list of Principles and Concepts you want to teach in the semester. Games are good for conveying vocabulary and facts, but their true advantage is in conveying abstract or complex concepts.
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Video games in Class–a Teacher Development Course Introduction
Video Games in the classroom-A Professional Development Course
Video Games like Immune Attack present scientific concepts in an intuitive format. Watching a cell react to a chemical signal in a movie like Inner Life of the Cell is helpful in visualizing the concepts of cell biology.
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DC STEM FAIR!
I will be demonstrating Immune Attack and Immune Defense at the DC STEM Fair. I will also teach some more professional Development classes on using games in your science classroom, so keep your eye out for that.
Right now, however, the STEM Fair needs some judges!
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