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 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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Check out this great Immune Attack demonstration video!!
If you would like to see what Immune Attack is exactly like, watch MrKenbinkley’s video of himself playing Immune Attack!
Spoiler alert! This video is better if you are a teacher, and less interesting if you are a PLAYER!
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Everyone seems to have an opinion about teacher’s role in the classroom of the future. Some claim that teachers should get out of the way and let kids simply have unfettered access to the internet. Others imagine a classroom in which teachers curate the vast world of information that is available and facilitate students’
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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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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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A friend of mine just referred me to a great blog on education, training and learning technology… by Richard N. Landers, Ph.D. Dr. Landers is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, USA. The blog is called Thoughts of a Neo-Academic. Richard wrote a series of blogs in September 2010 about a series of research papers published in Journal of General Psychology that are focused on video games.
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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.
