STEAM Games and Simulations
How to use: Have fun playing as learning and exploring real world adventures. Look for and read all directions, how-to-play and background information with your child. Start the game or simulation together figuring out how to play. After this try, it’s okay for your child to keep going or start again from the beginning once the gameplay is known. Encourage your child to play favorites again and again.
Some educational games need Adobe Flash to play. Please update and allow Flash to run for an individual game. Sadly, Shockwave (2017) and Flash are being discontinued by the end of 2020. It is unknown if all of these wonderful games and simulations will be upgraded to use newer graphics programs.
Any Apps listed will be free and run on both iOs/Apple and PC/Android operating systems.
All Ages
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Description: Help protect Loggerhead sea turtles and their habitat, so they can survive. Play and find out how people and animals affect each other.
Getting started: Review the Game Info - Play a Role, Mission and How to Play. Start the simulation with a first try, just to get used to the controls and what you are supposed to do. Over time, take turns playing every role. What are the needs and wants each one has and what problems do they cause for the Loggerhead Turtles? Use the links for more information.
Ages 9-16
Great STEM videos, games and literacy all in one place! Tim and Moby's adventures have been enjoyed by thousands of families across the world since 1999. Animated movies, educational games,activities, and quizzes on both website and mobile support children at all stages of learning.
Ages 5-9
Great STEM videos, games and literacy all in one place! Short movies follow the characters Annie and Moby as they explore topics across different subject areas: Science, Maths, Reading and Writing, Arts and Technology, and Health.
Ages 7-16
For children learning English as their second language. Great STEM videos, games and literacy all in one place! Join Ben and Moby through their adventures at school and in daily life. It provides a grammar progression and focuses on reading, writing, vocabulary building, listening, and speaking.
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Getting started: Choose the levels that are right for your child. Try out the science, engineering, technology, arts, music, math and other subjects. These are fun and engaging “complete” packets of learning.
PreK - Elementary
Description: Learning games about animals, logic and basic physics game with dung beetles, special dolphin moves and many more.
Getting started: Choose a game. Read all the directions. Play a practice round. Don’t give up! Use hints if they are available.
Description: "Space Racers" is a NASA-funded, award-winning preschool television series that follows young spaceship cadets at the Stardust Space Academy as they explore the solar system.
Getting started: Play the collection game, cleaning up space junk and other objects. Download the free iOS App for a variety of exciting challenges for the cadets.
Middle School and High School
Know It All.org
Description: Learn about how airplanes fly, weather, light, sound, electricity and plate tectonics.
Getting started: Choose your topic. Read all directions and prompts. Look for matching topics to get complete information.
Explore and drive the Curiosity Rover all over the surface of our nearby red planet, Mars!
Description: Curiosity has been exploring Mars and sending back data since August 2012! Also roving around Mars, sinceNovember 2018, is the smaller InSight. In July 2020, three new rovers were planned to be sent to Mars: NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance and Mars Helicopter drone; ExoMars 2020, run jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos; and the Mars 2020 mission of the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Getting started: Click on points of interest as you travel on the 3D map of Mars created by Curiosity's cameras. Think about how Mars and Earth are different and the same. Notice the distances and times between sites.