Play Financial Football, learn money management
Financial Football, a fast-paced, NFL-themed video game, tests your money management skills. It's part of Visa's free financial literacy program, Practical Money Skills for Life. The website provides useful financial literacy information for ages kindergarten through adult, including free lesson plans and other classroom materials. www.PracticalMoneySkills.com
This is a game-based learning initiative by NASA. The site links to numerous related and supplementary resources. The game is downloadable (free) but unfortunately PC-only.
Here's a link to a Youtube video showing gameplay and audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmAGNTzpINE&feature=related
Description: In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut working to further human expansion and research. Returning from a research expedition, you witness a meteorite impact that cripples the life support capability of the settlement. With precious minutes ticking away, you and your team must repair and replace equipment in order to restore the oxygen production to the settlement.
This game is set up by the UN World Food Program and touts itself as the first humanitarian video game. Available on MAC and PC platforms and is available in several different languages, but unfortunately not Spanish.
From the website
"Set on a fictitious island called Sheylan riven by drought and war, Food Force invites children to complete six virtual missions that reflect real-life obstacles faced by WFP in its emergency responses both to the tsunami and other hunger crises around the world."
This is geared toward Middle to High School Students. You download the game where players have to pilot helicopters, airdrop food to camps, negotiate with rebels. This is a free game to help players realize all the obstacles in helping others in third world countries
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