NASA Education EdLine News Story: CyGaMEs Selene and MoonWorld

This story was produced in October, 2010 by Stacy Keller, reporter Keri Brown, for NASA Education's EdLine News. The segment features CyGaMES: An approach to instrucional game design and embedded assessment, Selene: A Lunar Construction GaME (Selene players form the Earth's Moon, then pepper it with impact craers and flood it with lava flows), and MoonWorld: A vrtual world (MoonWorld players work in teams of 4 to conduct lunar greology field work on the surface of the Moon). The segment features Dr. Debbie Densie Reese, principal investigator of the CyGaMEs project and Dr. Charles (Chuck) A. Wood, Executive Director of the Wheeling Jesuit University Center for Educational Technologies and lunar scientist. Both environments are available for free, 24/7 on the Internet to learners age nine and up.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• instructional game
• Moon
• earth science
• volcanism
• impact cratering
• accretion
• cyberlearning
• Reese
• Wood
• CyGaMEs
• Selene
• Moon game
• embedded assessment
• research
• game-based learning