Scientific/Technical Report Science Literacy Project Award number-DE-FG02-06ER64286

Nasseh, Bizhan

关键词: AWARDS;    BIOLOGY;    CHEMISTRY;    COMMUNICATIONS;    COMPUTERS;    DESIGN;    EDUCATION;    LEARNING;    PHYSICS K-12 science literacy;    game-based learning;    multi-media based learning;    hands-on learning;    basics of science;    math;    science misconceptions;   

DOI  :  10.2172/941529
RP-ID  :  DOE/ER/64286-1 Final Report
PID  :  OSTI ID: 941529
Others  :  TRN: US201106%%844

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Ball State University (BSU) was the recipient of a U.S. Department of Energy award to develop educational games teaching science and math. The Science Media Program will merge Ball State University???s nationally recognized capabilities in education, technology, and communication to develop new, interactive, game-based media for the teaching and learning of science and scientific principles for K-12 students. BSU established a team of educators, researchers, scientists, animators, designers, technology specialists, and hired a professional media developer company (Outside Source Design) from Indianapolis. After six months discussions and assessments the project team selected the following 8 games in Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, 2 from each discipline. The assembled teams were innovative and unique. This new model of development and production included a process that integrated all needed knowledge and expertise for the development of high quality science and math games for K-12 students. This new model has potential to be used by others for the development of the educational games. The uniqueness of the model is to integrate domain experts??? knowledge with researchers/quality control group, and combine a professional development team from the game development company with the academic game development team from Computer Science and Art departments at Ball State University. The developed games went through feasibility tests with selected students for improvement before use in the research activities.