What is Gamification? 👾🤖
The gamification of learning is an educational approach that seeks to motivate students by using video game design and game elements in learning environments. The goal is to maximize enjoyment and engagement by capturing the interest of learners and inspiring them to continue learning.
Check out the following free game resources!
SSEC offers 12 different games that allow students to explore a wide range of science topics, including physical, life, earth & space, sustainability, and engineering.
Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition is an educational nutrition game designed to help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world!
Aquation: The Freshwater Access is an educational sustainability game that is designed to help teach students about managing the world's water!
Morphy is a life science game that is designed to help teach students that animals have external structures that function to support survival and behavior.
Tami’s Tower: Let’s Think About Engineering is an educational engineering design game designed to help teach students how to design a solution to a problem using basic engineering design principles.
Aww Snap! a Snapdragon Study is a life science game designed to help teach students how to become a field researcher.
Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence.
Students play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games.
Additionally, educators teaching online safety in the classroom can download premade lesson plans that have received the ISTE Seal of Alignment and classroom activities that bring the fundamental lessons to life.
Geoguessr is an online game that challenges geography knowledge, but also requires critical thinking and the ability to pay attention to details. Students will be “dropped” into a random area in the world and have to determine where they are by context clues, including plants, types of cars, businesses, signs, and the general environment. Many of the words, especially those in different languages, will be blurred out as an extra challenge!
Students can become geography experts and have fun at the same time! Seterra is an entertaining and educational geography game that gives you access to over 400 customizable quizzes. Seterra will challenge students with quizzes about countries, capitals, flags, oceans, lakes, and more!
NASA offers an educational Kids' Club site complete with games and extension activities for students to learn from that promote the national STEM standards -- science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Here students can launch rockets, drive rovers on Mars, complete puzzles, digital coloring pages, and more!
