Gaming_in_education

This game has a lot of care aspects of taking care of someone with diabetes and you can personalize it by buying stuff for your dog.

Wide variety of things geographical in one sense or another. Alao a lot of depth in available offerings spanning back several issues in almost all areas. Nice interactive games and puzzles.

Game Central - Discovery.com. One of the most intriguing stations on television brings a host of varied gaming opportunities to youngsters of all ages.

looks like skills type games - but plenty to look at.

It's got a pretty interesting story line to go with the game. I want to play - but grading FACTS designs are calling me.

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.

Contains three levels: Essence of simple machines where the player learns about all of the types of simple machines and mechanical advantage. Find the simple machine where the player finds the simple machines used in the construction of a lawnmower. Putting simple machines together where the player must correctly calculate the mechanical advantage of various simple machines used to complete a task.

Good site, contains more how and why explanations than "EdHead" does.

Math problems are not as interactive. :(

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 fairly simply but interesting game centers on practicing knowledge about the mummification processes of ancient Egyptian embalmers. The player plays the role of the embalmer who has to practice all the right steps and use the correct tools in the correct order so that the deceased pharoah is granted access to the afterlife.

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

This game teaches what the left and right hemispheres do. This game would be good for 2nd-8th Grade.

I just like this game since I am a Psychology major, and the kids learn about this in elementary school. 3rd-6th.

This game is set up like a hangman game where students are given clues, and they are asked to figure out what is wrong with the character.

This is a fun interactive game where you can learn your age and weight on other planets.

This game would be more suited for Middle to High School students. Players are asked question about lasers when they reach a star in the game. Players are also asked to sort laser items from other items.

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 Students. Students are given a number, and they have to match it with the right fact family.

Elementary School. The player must match antonyms, synonyms, homonyms.

Elementary School. The player needs to match addition problems with their solution.