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www.moleclues.org is a website where you can learn about the things molecules do… like make us fall in love, for instance.
The people behind Moleclues and the Year of Chemistry are The Molecular Frontiers Foundation.
Moleclues wants you to know that 2011 is the international YEAR OF CHEMISTRY!
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STEM Challenge!
This fall the first National STEM Video Game Challenge invited professional, collegiate, and youth developers to submit prototypes of games to inspire STEM learning for kids pre-k to 4th grade.
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To build appreciation for the science of immunology, we need to find the fun in it.
Many thousands of people spend their lives in windowless laboratories, standing day in and day out, barely speaking to their silent lab mates, often working in a 4°C room, or holding their arms up for hours while they conduct their experiments inside the awkward,
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Wonder whether your students will like Immune Attack? Wonder whether it is game enough to hold their attention? Well watch this video.
And oh, if you work for a AAA video game company you can reach me by email!
Thank you to Debbie Kovesdy, her students and the biology teachers who participated in our evaluation.
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A friend said to me,
“I am trying to make a video game to create interest in engineering. Someone told me Spore taught a lot about evolution. What do you think?”
I did play Spore and I was very disappointed. I was angry, actually, because the things that are so cool about evolution were not present.
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At the USA Science and Engineering Expo, we had a great time introducing our “free Video Game” to 4000 people. While kids of all ages ran into our booth to see for themselves whether Immune Attack was any good or not, parents were happy to hear that our video game is about white blood cells fighting bacteria.
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Cell Article on Video games 2010
Amy Maxmen wrote an article about Immune Attack for Cell! Maxmen keeps you up to date about the push from the President and First Lady to make sure we are using video games and all learning technology to their fullest potential.
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So, how do cells avoid viruses? If you wonder, try playing the game CellCraft. It is a terrific game for middle school students or anyone. Check it out, give the Cellcraft team some props on their forum, and then tell me what you like about the game.
www.kongregate.com Play Cellcraft here!
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Here is the list of science games that we are continuously updating for you.
Flash Games played over the web:
MedMyst (about hunting down infectious diseases)
CSI:The Experience (just like the show, only you need to use your own brain!)
N-Squad You take on the role of a forensic scientist,
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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 School in Washington,
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We list every science game we know of on the Science Game Center! Made a science game? Looking for one? Have an opinion about one? Go to the SGC now.
