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Environment


iBiome-Wetland

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With Professor Bio as your guide, students explore the wetland habitat and all the amazing species within. Build unique bio domes from scratch and interact with their fascinating food webs through immersive game play. Use what you learn to make your bio domes flourish with life. 
  • Website: http://www.springbaystudio.com/WetlandGame.html (web Demo version) (iOS App available at https://goo.gl/GEgVRX)
  • Recommended Age Range: 10-12
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iOS
  • Browser-based or Download? Browser-based or App download
  • Free? Free demo and paid full version available 
  • Student Activity Last Updated: 2016
  • Keywords: wetland, ecosystem, biodiversity, fresh water marsh, salt water marsh, mangrove swamp, food web

Citizen Science

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Citizen Science is an online flash-based computer adventure game in which a local lake is threatened by eutrophication. Based at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, your goal is to travel back in time to stop the lake from becoming eutrophic. Learn about different parts of the ecosystem and how each part affects the lake as a whole. Learn about limnology – or freshwater science – and brush up on your scientific literacy. By focusing on the ecological needs of Lake Mendota as well as the surrounding community, the game brings together real-world issues and scientific practices in a meaningful way. (From the Citizen Science website)
  • Website: https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/project_citizen_science.php
  • Recommended Age Range: 12-14
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Chromebook
  • Browser-based or Download? Browser-based (note: Ignore the "Network Connection" error that appears when you load the game. Unfortunately the login functionality is not working at this point and therefore there is no way to save your progress if you want to leave the game and come back to it. Best to be played in one sitting.)
  • Free? Yes
  • Student Activity Last Updated: 2014
  • Keywords: water pollution, lake ecology, eutrophy, blue-green algae, algae blooms, wetlands restoration, aquatic ecosystem, rain garden, buffer strip, toxicity levels, chemical runoff, fishing regulation, invasive species, biodiversity

Who's the Pest?

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‘Who’s the Pest?’ explores the entwined and co-dependent love/hate story between humans and insects.  As a human in 'Who's the Pest?', you must defend your prized cabbages from voracious ants who have placed aphids on the leaves to farm for honeydew. Using, rocks, apples, logs and twigs, you direct the marching ant colony away from your valuable crops and into the waiting jaws of insect predators.  Playing for the ant team, you have only pheromones to guide you. You must make your way to the cabbages and back while avoiding the almighty praying mantis, the snacking huntsman spider, the easily distracted devil's coach horse beetle and the fearsome bombardier beetle - a creature whose violent internal chemistry emits a fatal acid spray. (from the Wellcome Collection website)
  • Website: http://www.kongregate.com/games/explorewellcome/whos-the-pest
  • Recommended Age Range: 8-12
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iOS
  • Browser-based or Download? Browser-based
  • Free? Yes
  • Student Activity Last Updated: 2014
  • Keywords: insects, prey, predators, food web, gardening, ant, human, mantis, spider, centipede, beetle, aphid 

Catchment Detox

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Play Catchment Detox to see if you successfully manage a river catchment and create a sustainable and thriving economy.   It's an online game where you're in charge of the whole catchment. You get to decide what activities you undertake - whether to plant crops, log forests, build factories or set up national parks.  The aim is to avoid environmental problems and provide food and wealth for the population.
  • Website: http://www.abc.net.au/science/catchmentdetox/files/play-game.htm​ 
  • Recommended Age Range: 12-16
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Chromebook
  • Browser-based or Download? Browser-based
  • Free? Yes
  • Student Activity Last Updated: 2014
  • Keywords: watershed management, agriculture, forestry, urban planning, sustainability, industrialization, water pollution, organic

Mission Migration

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In the spring and the fall, many birds fly long distances in search of food, water, shelter and space: the same basic things that you need to survive.  Along these routes, they encounter many different types of habitats, from country and forest to neighborhoods and big cities, and at times, encounter dangers from both natural and human-made hazards.  In this game you will try to help your flock migrate safely by learning how choices you make each and every day around  your home, school, and neighborhood can affect the fate of these migrating birds - in both positive and negative ways. 
  • Website: www.audubon.org/games/mission-migration
  • Recommended Age Range: 8-12
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Chromebook
  • Browser-based or Download? Browser-based
  • Free? Yes
  • Student Activity Last Updated: 2013
  • Keywords: bird migration, rural, suburban, urban, pesticides, hazards

Mission - Planet Earth

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As the executive producer for Planet Earth, you will manage seven film crews across the globe to acquire never before seen footage for this groundbreaking series from the Discovery Channel.  For each mission you will be assigned a specific budget.  Before sending each team on assignment, you will need to purchase general supplies and the necessary equipment, including cameras, and arrange transportation and housing.  What you choose for your team may affect their progress in the field, so use your resources wisely to capture the best footage while spending the least amount of money. 
  • Website: www.discovery.com/tv-shows/planet-earth/games-and-more/mission-planet-earth.htm
  • Recommended Age Range: 10-14
  • Platforms: Windows, Mac, Chromebook
  • Browser-based or Download? Browser-based
  • Free? Yes
  • Student Activity Last Updated: 2015
  • Keywords: Antarctica, Costa Rica, Norway, Botswana, Fiji, Sahara, New Mexico, documentary, filming, budget, nature

Possible Future Games

  • Mission to Mesozoic
  • Beyond Blue
  • Super Tofu Boy
  • eCambrian
  • ROMining
  • Block'hood
  • Fat Chicken
  • Walden
  • Radix Endeavor
  • Mini Metro
  • Reach for the Sun
  • Giant Pandas: Into the Wild
  • Never Alone
  • Unclaimed World
  • Smog City 2
  • Bee Active
  • Aqua Republica
  • Tree
  • Waterlife
  • Toilet Trek
  • Law of the Jungle: The Game of Social Rules
  • Econauts
  • Quest Atlantis
  • ​The Commander of the Nautilus  
  • Crittercam: Antarctic Adventure
  • TyrAnt
  • Wait
  • Balance
  • Galactic Mappers
  • Mountain
  • ​Eco
  • Cambrian Creatures
  • I Love Potatoes
  • Forest Song
  • Save the Park
  • Habitactics
  • Earth: A Primer
  • GreenKids
  • ​Arctic Defenders
  • Proteus
  • Bioharmonius
  • The Riverbed - An Eco-Noir Mystery
  • Savage Garden
  • Garlic Spray
  • Life on Earth
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