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Educational Games
Educational Games
A variety of educational games are being funded and developed by numerous organizations including the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), several universities, non-profit organizations and the gaming industry. I'll be collecting links to some of the games of the highest educational value
Links
Immune Attack: an shoot-em up educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology. Produced by the Federation of American Scientists and available as a free download.
Re-Mission: an shoot-em up educational video game that introduces the concepts of cancer treatment. Produced by HopeLab and available as a free download.
Spore: a commercial game that has recently been released. This game puts you in control of a single-celled and multicellulared organisms of increasing complexity as they compete to survive and conquer larger and larger territories.
Mars Exploration Fun Zone: This NASA webpage provides links to a variety of activities including a 3-D Mars Rover game.
Energyville: An interactive game that puts you in charge of meeting the energy needs of a city or around 3.9 million people.
ElectroCity: This online game is similar to Energyville. It puts you in control of the design of your own city with an emphasis on energy use.
PowerUp: Save the city Helios from ecological destruction in this downloadable game created by IBM.
Whyville: Whyville is a virtual world for younger budding scientists
Dual N-Back Game: Can a game improve your memory and intelligence? That's what scientists have found out using this memory game. You'll have to download it from here.
Exploring Biotechnology
Mr. Gregory Louie
Duke School
3716 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705
(919) 287-3527
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