Science Games
CSI Flight Adventures: Flight School Assessment Tips
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After playing the CSI Flight Adventures game, allow students to print out a record of their flight school exercises and how they did on the flight missions. Have students talk about their results with...
Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded for Discoveries in Cell Transportation!
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This morning, professors James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas C. Suedhof became the latest recipients of Nobel Prize in Medicine! They received the award for their work detailing how a cell’s tr...
Reach for the Sun Teaching Strategies
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Use these teaching strategies to enhance your students' experience of the Reach for the Sun game: How realistic is the game's representation of being a plant? Encourage students to explore this questi...
Virtual Labs: Bacteria Sampling Lesson Plan
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This lesson plan accompanies Virtual Labs: Bacteria Sampling, and is adaptable for grades 6-12. This interactive lab challenges students to test milk samples for bacterial contamination with various d...
Food Fight Tips and Tricks
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Playing Food Fight as a Class:
Project the game onto a white screen or use an interactive whiteboard. Have students take turns in selecting species and offering one another strategy suggestions.
Pla...
Getting Scientific with GameUp
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Join 5th-grade teacher and BrainPOP advisor Robert Miller for an in depth exploration of using GameUp games in science class. Learn how playing well-designed educational games is not only great fun, ...
Refraction Game Teaching Strategies
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The Refraction game teaches fractions by adopting three models: laser width (continuous), flow frequency (discrete), and lasers colored by denominator.
In later stages of the game, students...
Food Fight Species Cards
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These Food Fight species cards help students organize and think through game play....
Digestive System Lesson Plan: Build-A-Body Game
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In this digestive system lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 6-12, students use a free online science interactive to learn about the organs and organ substructures of the human digestive system....
Learning about Blood Through GameUp’s Free Online Games
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Are your students learning about blood typing, blood transfusions, or blood sugar? Are they exploring the human immune system or how the circulatory system works? The free collection of science and ma...