Hi everyone. The non-profit company, FAS Learning Technology is not keeping this site up to date any more. We are working at Molecular Jig Games, now. We are doing the same work: We are making games about cells that are real and show everyone how proteins work. We are also still investigating whether these games teach.
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Understanding the basics of cell biology, I believe, is vital for an understanding and support for infectious disease research. This is why I left the lab and starting learning about video games. I am the PI on an R25 grant from the NIH, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
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If you are a teacher of kids ~12-18 years old, you are invited to participate in our evaluation! We warmly, eagerly and happily invite you! We have an Amazon gift certificate to pay you back for your time.
We will happily discuss the experiment and results with you and your students after the evaluation.
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The Federal Government is making moves to change how science education is funded at the federal level.
Read this article AAAS article- June 13, 2013
Read this article and email your Congress People! Do you want NASA to have an outreach program? Do you think the Department of Education wil do as good a job teaching kids about space,
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TEACHERS! Ever wished someone had asked for your opinion, or your kids’ opinions, while they were developing an education tool? Well, here we are asking! We need teachers of students aged 14-16. Any subject! Read about our game and see below to get involved in our evaluation.
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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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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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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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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.
