Science Games
Serious Games into the K-16 Classroom with Victoria Van Voorhis
Posted by Laura Gatto on
In this video talk with Victoria Van Voorhis of Rochester discusses the challenges in taking serious games and interactive media from the margins to the mainstream across the K-16 spectrum. Her essent...
Guide to Digital Games and Learning from MindShift
Posted by Laura Gatto on
The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning started as a series of blog posts written by Jordan Shapiro with support of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the Games and...
Desalination Game Lesson Plan
Posted by SM Bruner on
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 4-12, students work collaboratively to explore a challenging puzzle game which simulates a desalination machine....
New on GameUp: MedMyst Animal Alert Science Game
Posted by SM Bruner on
MedMyst Animal Alert is a brand new science game from our partner, Rice University. Designed for students in grades 5-12, MedMyst Animal Alert allows students to take on the role of epidemiologists, m...
More Citizen Science Lesson Ideas
Posted by SM Bruner on
Game Learning Society (GLS) has provided 5 additional lesson plans for the Citizen Science game. Visit their site to view and download the following PDFs:
Citizen Science - Cause and Effect Lesson...
What Makes a Great Educational Game? Peek Into Our Game Evaluation Process and GLS 2014
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
There are a ton of really great games out there - but a lot of them never make it into the classroom. Why is this? The reasons include poor distribution, technical challenges, and a lack of teacher su...
New on GameUp: Go Vector Go Science Game
Posted by SM Bruner on
We know there are a lot of incredible games coming out of university design programs. We are so excited to welcome UCLA CREEST onboard as a new GameUp partner with the science game Go Vector Go!
In...
The Sortify Game: A New Experiment in Playful Assessment
Posted by SM Bruner on
Sortify is a brand new offering from BrainPOP's GameUp that's designed to be used as a playful assessment. It’s an open-ended tool that is flexible enough to work for all grade levels (K-12) and many ...
Sortify: Elements of the Periodic Table Game
Posted by SM Bruner on
In Sortify: Elements of the Periodic Table Game, students categorize and sort information from BrainPOP movies into bins representing key concepts....
Game-Based Learning Resources
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We offer game-based learning lesson plans, research on games for learning, game making tools, student-made games, and more to support game-based-learning (GBL) using GameUp....
