AtomTouch is a molecular simulation app, created through a partnership between UW MRSEC and Field Day Lab. It allows learners to explore principles of thermodynamics and molecular dynamics in a tactile, exploratory way. The simulation was developed to help students understand the structures and attributes of particles at the molecular level, providing real-time feedback and responding to students’ actions.
Material Type: Game, Simulation
The Thermodynamics VR captures the Equation of State of water--a concept from undergraduate thermo classes--in a simulation that students can touch and see and manipulate. This project is an exciting partnership with John Pfotenhauer, Professor of Thermodynamics at UW-Madison, who uses the simulation with his intro-level students. Players stand in front of a virtual table and conduct experiments with a cylinder of water, a common example used in thermodynamics courses. Usually, the example is only theoretical. In the VR simulation, it becomes tactile and hands-on. Players can use tools on the table--a Bunsen burner, cooling coils, weights, balloons, and more--to alter the temperature, volume, and pressure of the substance and see how the water responds. Requires a VR Headset.
Material Type: Simulation
What is situated learning and why do we care so much about it? Situated learning refers to knowledge that is developed and applied in the same social setting in which it is typically used — such as when you learn to use a hammer by actually building something, and the values and practices associated with becoming a carpenter by working on a construction crew.
Material Type: Interactive
Open Educational Resource textbook that covers many topics about gamified learning and/or online learning. With chapters on educational board gaming, educational escape rooms, techniques for blended-learning classrooms, developing digital literacy, the digital divide, and a chapter on academic integrity in virtual learning.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook
This is a fairly comprehensive list of resources related to educational uses of gaming and role-playing scenarios. It includes sections on the basics of multiplayer scenarios, the pedagogical concepts they embody, introductions to different types of multiplayer scenarios (escape rooms, edu-LARPs, megagames like Model UN, and alternate reality games), examples of activities for each, and an extensive bibliography covering books, podcasts, articles, and organizations related to each page of the resource.
Material Type: Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy
04/14/21 | 59m 20s | Rating: TV-G David Gagnon, Director of the Field Day Lab at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW-Madison, discusses the educational advantages of using video games and simulators as teaching tools. Games offer opportunities to actively learn new concepts and to fail without real world consequences.
Material Type: Game, Learning Task, Other
"I created this site to make it a little easier for parents, teachers and students to find resources, games, and have additional resources to support online learning without having to create a bunch of new accounts or remember a bunch of passwords. This is a database of links to free educational pre-K-12th grade games and research tools with no log ins or sign ups or memberships required. This site is aligned to Common Core Standards, teacher and parent needs and student interests. I invite you to explore and play and to maybe learn something new." __________________________ "This site came about in early 2020 when schools around the country started to close, due to COVID 19. I saw online that there were a lot of resources that families could access, but felt that the choices were overwhelming to parents and kids who were looking for some fun and educational things to do online. I narrowed down the sources and put them onto a manageable site that is easy for kids and parents to use. The use of technology is encouraged in schools and at home in order to support student engagement. With technology, I hope to inspire the STEM leaders and innovators of tomorrow. All of the links on this site are aligned with the Common Core Standards and are all age appropriate. With these links, all materials are free to use, without having to sign up or register for anything. I hope that you enjoy exploring these sites." -Ms. Krystal Youth Services Coordinator
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Game, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Learning Task, Module, Other, Reference Material, Self Assessment, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
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.
Material Type: Other
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. Partner with Field Day to produce digital media that will change how your students learn.Â
Material Type: Lesson
A guidebook for teahcing students how to tell community-based mobile stories in the classroom.Â
Material Type: Interactive
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
Material Type: Full Course, Lesson Plan, Reference Material, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Filament Games reached out to some of their game-based learning educator allies and asked them how they use games in the classroom, and they had a lot to say! So much in fact that they’ve compiled their insights into a shiny new eBook for your perusal – introducing How to Teach with Games! The eBook is packed with expert perspectives and practical advice, all of which is supplemented by recommended resources and downloadables to help you get started with game-based learning. Whether you’re just getting started with games or have been using games for years, we think you’ll learn something new from these educators’ stories.
Material Type: Curriculum Map
Resources with an emphasis on play, child development, belonging and inclusion, and social and emotional learning, grades K-3.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
In The Legend of the Lost Emerald, learners in grades 4-6 will use the same tools, practices, and skills that maritime archaeologists use to locate and dive for shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and uncover the real treasure—the stories inspired by actual shipwrecks and Great Lakes history.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Game, Lesson, Lesson Plan
AtomTouch is a molecular simulation app, created through a partnership between UW MRSEC and Field Day Lab, that allows learners to explore principles of thermodynamics and molecular dynamics in a tactile, exploratory way.
Material Type: Assessment, Game, Interactive, Simulation
