On the Wire – Educational games and visualizations
Here are some interesting games and visualization sites that you can use.
1. National Atmospheric and oceanic admistration – http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/ This is a government site with some good visualisations and animations on weather etc. Good use of satellite images – worth a visit
2. Science net links – http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html This interactive starts with a voice saying “please help me I have lost all my organs” – from there the students have to help him rebuild his digestive tract, nervous system and others. The base site http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/ is also worth visiting too..
3. Climate Challenge – http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/ This is a BBC science/climate game. Well worth looking at. Here is the lead line for it “A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office”
4. Connect2change – http://www.connect2climate.org/Mobile_Games.htm this is a site with a difference as it is games for mobile phones. The theme is climate change. Interesting.
5. Copenhagen Challenge – http://www.copenhagenchallenge.org/ Another climate change challenge game. This one is web based rather than mobile based. Here is the lead line from this Educational game “The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 – COP15, is being hosted by Denmark in Copenhagen in December this year. The Danish government’s goal for COP15 is to establish an ambitious global climate agreement which will apply to the period after 2012..”
6. V Gas – Energy Lifestyles and climate – http://alba.jrc.it/vgas/ This is a download and play game produced by the European Commission Joint Research Center.Also worth a visit is the Joint Research Center – http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm
7. Learning games for Kids - http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/ This is a site for the younger students hosting a variety of different games.
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