Contested Places is a Siftr-based activity that engages students in exploring their school, neighborhood, or city as a contested place. You can view and comment on other people's examples or upload your own. 
In this activity your task is to locate places and spaces that are contested. You might ask: How do different people view and use this place? What uses cause conflict? How are these conflicts enacted and resolved? Who has power in this place? Who and what is excluded from this place? You may want to look at how people behave or act in the place, but don't forget to also pay attention to what you don't see.

The earthquake game teaches how scientists learn about real earthquakes. The player must learn about S& P waves and triangulation to determine the epicenter of the earthquake that hit the cities.

Are you a dreamer, risk-taker, and experimental mess-maker? Are you interested in new media and how technology can transform learning experiences? If so, we want to talk with you! Visit our website to learn more about the workshops, free educational tools, and teacher fellowships we provide.

You have big ideas that take a whole team to build. We have artists, software engineers, designers and researchers... 
What is your secret project, your passion? We can make stuff, but we need your perspective to understand what is worth making.
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The kids have to use magnetic waves to find all of Mr. Hart's magnets that Max and Honey hid throughout the yard. Magnetic Fields radiate from the N to the S side of a magnet in a predictable way. By changing the shape of the magnet, these fields change shape.

A guidebook for teahcing students how to tell community-based mobile stories in the classroom. 

The nitrogen cycle game helps you learn how nitrogen atoms move through various forms including soil, the atmosphere, plants and animals. Actions such as lightening, bacteria digestion, plant assimilation, plant death, animal death, herbivorism and nitrogen fixing plant bacteria move nitrogen from one form to another.

Siftr is a fieldwork tool that helps extend learning beyond the classroom walls - preparing people of all ages to learn in the wild. Siftr has been used in a variety of contexts to help students make connections between what they are studying in the classroom and the real world.
Vist www.siftr.org to learn more about the platform, see how others are using it, and create you own Siftr-based activity.

Siftr is a social media app that engages users with elements of field research through the documenting and sharing of images. Anyone can create a Siftr by choosing up to five themes around which to focus the media that will be collected and categorized. Users upload a photograph, provide a brief description of the image and its relevance, and tag it with one of five selected themes. Images are then pinned to a map, connecting moments to places. Siftr allows for other social components such as commenting, liking, searching, and linking photos to Twitter and Pinterest. In addition to being iOS and Android compatible, Siftr was built as a web app, meaning users can upload photos “in the field” or take a photograph and upload it later from a desktop. While Siftr seems similar to many social media platforms, it was designed to playfully engage specific communities, such as a class, around defined topics. It can be used for small class and group projects, or for long term and large field initiatives.

In the WIND SIMULATOR students explore the relationships between high and low pressure and wind speed and direction. The game, which was developed by the Field Day Lab, is designed for use with middle school students.

The water cycle game helps you learn how water molecules move through various places including rivers, the ocean, the earth’s surface, the atmosphere and clouds. Actions such as evaporation, runoff, condensation, precipitation, soil absorption and ground water expansion move water from one zone to another.
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Are you interested in learning how to create (or have your students create) educational board games and mobile-based interactive stories and games? This collection of schedules, presentations, handouts and prototyping tools will get you off to a great start.
In this workshop, learners will:
-Learn about the Learning Science behind educational games
-Learn the process of designing analog educational games
-Learn how to use ARIS, a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. 
-Use ARIS to create a location-based story or game