Curated OER
Virtual Reality
Learners consider the implications of playing violent video games. In this current issues lesson, students visit selected websites to research virtual violence and video game censorship.
Curated OER
Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities
Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune lesson, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win.
Curated OER
Against all Odds
Tenth graders appreciate the role of probability in understanding everyday situations. They Communicate a summary of financial projections in appropriate reports, tables, and graphs after creating a new game of chance.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Sweating the Score: Can Video Games Be a Form of Exercise?
The majority of video games are sedentary, meaning done in one position, but there is an increasing trend toward video games where the players are physically active. Whether or not these type of video games can be considered exercise is...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Artificial Intelligence Teaching a Computer to Play Tic Tac Toe
This is a more challenging JavaScript project. You will have to figure out a way to translate game strategy into a computer algorithm. Directions will show you how to create a working Tic-Tac-Toe board on a webpage. Just by showing the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: No Pain, Lots of Game
This science fair project investigates whether video games, and other forms of mental distraction, have the power to relieve pain. You will research and learn about gatekeeper cells, which control how the brain perceives pain, and how...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Pixel Puzzle: Why Video Game Characters Look Better Today
Video games today look better than video games from the 80's, this is because now the number of pixels, or dots on the screen, used to represent video game objects has greatly increased. In the 80's, Mario was no more than 16 pixels tall...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Do Distractions Affect Driving Video Game Scores?
In this science fair project, you will investigate how distractions affect your focus on a task, such as driving, by looking at how gaming scores are affected as you're talking on a cell phone or having a conversation with a friend. For...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gamers: Myth or Man?
Lots of people have preconceived ideas and perceptions of people because of stereotypes. This science fair project will help you examine whether the stereotypes of "gamers" actually matches those that actually play video games.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Out of Control!
Some games have control schemes that are real-world based, such as the Nintendo Wii. Your job will be to discover if inexperienced players perform better when using real-world-based control schemes rather than abstract control schemes.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Want to Make a Video Game? Here's How!
Do you love playing video and computer games? Do you dream of someday creating your own? With this science fair project you can turn that "someday" wish into a "today" reality.
Carnegie Mellon University
Experimental Gameplay Project
Experience the Experimental Gameplay Project at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
PBS
Pbs: The Video Game Revolution
A comprehensive website delving into the history and impact of video games. Learn about how games are made, read personal gaming stories, take game quizzes, and much more.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Programming Nanor Gs in a Virtual World
In this two week long project, you will design an assembly-language control program for the microprocessors of a colony of nano-organisms (NANORGs) in a virtual world. If you're up for a real programming challenge, this is the project...
Other
Cgw Museum
This resource contains online publications back to the early 1980s as well as galleries and forums for the computer gaming community.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Researchers Believe Gamers Are Able to Learn Faster
Article reports on studies examining the differences between games and non-gamers to perform certain visual tasks. Includes video.
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Game Design Theme
A set of eight activities that teach students basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class. This...
Other
Up to Ten
This multi-intelligence developmental site categorizes activities into motor skill development, intellectual agility development, and computer literacy development. Large, brightly colored icons and figures light up the screen. Follow...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Fun or Frustrating?
Video games have different difficulty settings, from easy to hard mode. Ask volunteers who have never played the game before to try it out. Some of them should use the easy mode and others should use the hard mode, this will ensure that...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How I Responded to Sexism in Gaming With Empathy
Lilian Chen details her experiences with sexism in the gamer community and how she is now aiming to raise awareness for this topic in a way that doesn't shame male gamers. [7:00]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Game Layer on Top of the World
By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. In his talk, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Brief History of Video Games (Part I)
Video games are everywhere these days, but where did they actually come from? The history of video games is a complicated story that involves giant computers in science labs, the founder of Chuck E. Cheese and billions of dollars in...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Nolan Bushnell
A Utah inventor brought the world new kinds of fun: computer games and family-friendly restaurants with game facilities. His work on electronic entertainment led to a multibillion-dollar industry.
Other
Kidsmart: Games
Test your online safety knowledge about being a safe gamer. Here, you can learn some great tips and find out what to do if you think you're being cyberbullied.