SGT Games Based Learning Group

nitrogen cycle game - you can buy it or download a printable version for free

The Instructional Power of Digital games, social networking, and simulations and How Teachers Can Leverage Them

Quest Atlantis (QA) is a learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-12, in educational tasks. Building on strategies from online role-playing games, QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae. A Quest is an engaging curricular task designed to be entertaining yet educational. Each Quest is connected to local academic standards and to our team's commitments. Completing Quests requires that members participate in real-world, socially and academically meaningful activities, such as conducting environmental studies, researching other cultures, calculating frequency distributions, analyzing newspaper articles, interviewing community members, and developing action plans.

Immune Attack is a supplemental teaching tool, designed to be used in addition to middle school and high school biology textbooks. Immune Attack introduces molecular biology and cellular biology in detail that is usually reserved for college students. However, it uses the familiar and motivational video game format to introduce the strange and new world of cells and molecules.

In You Make Me Sick, students learn how viruses and bacteria transmit disease by designing pathogens and trying to infect human hosts (overcoming their strengths and capitalizing on their vulnerabilities…dirty sponges, anyone?).

Located in what is now modern Iraq-Mesopotamia was the birthplace of written language, the first cities, the concept of the 360° circle and the 24-hour day, not to mention the earliest known laws and literature-yet its contributions are not well known to many Americans. Targeted at ages 8 -14, Discover Babylon TM uses sophisticated video gaming strategies and realistic digital environments to engage the learner in challenges and mysteries that can only be solved through developing an understanding of Mesopotamian society, business practices, and trade.

Molecular Frontiers is a group of scientists, who all believe that molecular science is important - for us, for you, for the world we live in. This is why we launched this Web site, to share our enthusiasm with the coming generations.

helpful links about gaming in the classroom

"Teachers Guide: Five ways Minecraft (and other video games) can boost student writing skills"