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.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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