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Serious Games For The Nasa-Sponsored Classroom Of The Future

Serious Games For The Nasa-Sponsored Classroom Of The Future

Via: Home of The Nasa-Sponsored Classroom Of The Future

The Classroom of the Future is housed at the Center for Educational

Technologies�. Since its start in 1990, the program has created

curriculum for all ages, curriculum that improves mathematics,

science, geography, and technology education in ways consistent with

national educational standards.

This unique relationship with NASA allows the Classroom of the Future

to create high-quality materials that are technology intensive. These

curricular supplements incorporate NASA expertise and datasets.

NOTE from the SERIOUS GAMES SUMMIT GDC 2007

Debbie Denise Reese will be a speaker at the upcoming SGS-GDC leading

the session Designing Selene: Theory-based Game Design and Data

Mining.

Reese was the principal researcher and project manager for the

NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future�s (COTF)Inspiration

project. She is the lead educational researcher for the NASA education

game project directed by the NASA Technology and Products Office

through COTF.

Products

International Space Station Challenge(TM) Learners experience space

station design, construction, and research through hands-on and

computer-based simulations. A newsletter covers the latest happenings.

Grades K-12

BioBLAST� At a simulated lunar research facility, learners design and

test a plant-based, self-contained life-support system that can

sustain a crew of six for three years. Grades 9-12

Astronomy Village: Investigating the Solar System� Students play

real-world scientists in seven investigations as they search for life

in the solar system or probe the mysteries of Pluto. Grades 5-7

ExoQuest� Does extraterrestrial life exist? Students try to answer

that question as they learn contemporary astrobiology in virtual

journeys reflecting past and future NASA missions. Grades 10-12

STORM-E Outdoor events are planned. Will the weather cooperate? You'll

be the meteorologist who makes the call. Grades 4-6

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