"Wisconsin Researchers Use Games to Engage Science Learners
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin's Educational Research Integration Area look to games to teach about viruses, diabetes and science/heath topics."
Hippocampus in partnership with MoVIP offers free online curriculum for a variety of courses. You can create a logon and use these online materials in your classroom. You can also bring the videos into your Blackboard course.
This tool has templates to help your students create a mock Facebook page of an individual - great for historical figures, characters in a book - heck even an element in science!