An interactive site with 5 simulations regarding the heart:
Anatomy - construct a model of the heart structure and a model of the heart circulatory pathways.
Disease - learn about diagnostic tools and heart diseases/disorders. Includes a section where learners can "try out" the diagnostic tools.
Exploring the Hospital - Learn about heart catheterization and heart surgeries. Read about medical profession careers
Surgery - Learn about heart bypass surgery and perform a virtual heart bypass surgery
Prevention - learn about prevention of heart disease and follow one patient's life timeline and how his choices affectied his heart health
Interactive simulation of travel to six different stars at selected speeds. A comparison of the time elapsed on Earth vs the time elapsed on the spaceship. Upon arrival back to Earth, information about how Earth has may have changed during the time gone on the trip is shown.
The Pacific Science Center runs this site. There are several games that students can play that has Them identifying The nutrition They need and in what They eat. This site also helps students learn if what They're eating is healthy for Them.
It wasn't until after I registered that it hit me, I have these kits in my library! Teachers come in and drool over them because they're complete and most of the time, the kits the teachers have in their classrooms are completely empty. Teachers register for free and share their username and password with their students. This is the middle school module, they also have modules for K-2, and 3-6.
I came across these "old-fashioned" learning riddles/games that are still very valuable in developing various higher-order thinking skills.
To bring them into the 21st century, the teacher could use Twitter to tweet a different problem each day, and students could provide their answers via Twitter and also compare other their responses with those of their classmates. the same idea could be applied to Facebook, foursquare, or the other social networking sites that students use.
This is a 14+ game for use in teaching and understanding addiction, useful in health and psychology education. It's in English and free to download (PC only)
From the site:
Akrasia is a single-player game that challenges game conventions and is intended to make the player think and reflect. It is based on the abstract concept of addiction, which is expressed metaphorically throughout the game.
Middle to High School Students.
The player needs to run tests on The patient, and Then decide what blood type The patient is so that They can give Them a blood transfer.
Elementary to Middle School Kids.
In this game the player has to take care of their dog, by walking and feeding him along with watching the pets insulin levels and administering insulin.
THE COLONY is an experiment that simulates a post-apocalyptic world in which volunteers are tasked with surviving and rebuilding everything from scratch, using only raw ingenuity and supplies THEy scavenge from THEir environment. Here's your destination to learn more about THEse bold experiments into a dark future that holds THE promise of hopeful regeneration. At top of page click on colony central or go to: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/colony-central/ for VIRTUAL GAME. haven't had time to play but love show and will play soon.
A mixture of games, simulations, quests, and other educational topics all from a project originally called Games To Teach (archives are available, but notes on the site direct you back to the Education Arcade area. Games in the GTT area are interesting as well -- green games, etc.
what's really 'cool' about this site is the use of word problems which are often difficult for someto grasp the understanding of completing such a problem.
This game website allows you to practice math problems by playing with numbers and giving your brain a workout. This site is good for elementary and middle school students to practice math skills play a logic game and have some fun...
This site has games and a nutrition tracker students can download to keep track of what they're eating. This is a good site for students to get charts to start their research and a shopping list that encourages students to pay attention to the food pyramid.
This site is from PBS kids has students using a virtual kitchen to solve a puzzle and do experiments. It also has experiments the kids can do in their own kitchens and post the results
This website allows you to enter vocabulary words and be able to practice the words by clicking on two options, say word or use in a sentence. Once you have learned the word you are able to test as well as play games.
This website allows you to enter phrases which inturn associates the words to images. Students will be able to enter any phrase they want or they may visit the archive. This is fun and interative tool that can be used to enhance vocabulary words or as you see fit.
According to the website Chatzy is a good alterantive to facebook, skype, etc... You are allowed to start a quick private chat room that only allows people you invite to participate. the great thing about this is that it is free.
