Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard is a 3D educational computer game that communicates food safety knowledge in an environment of scientific exploration. It's a free download for Mac and PC.
The USDA awarded New Mexico State University a grant to develop interactive games that help middle-schoolers learn about food safety procedures, such as hand washing, cooking food to the proper temperature, keeping raw meat and cooked food separate, and washing surfaces.
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The original goal of Pirate Science shifted from one of understanding food safety issues through science processes, to one of understanding science processes to better change food safety behavior. The educational focus is more centered on scientific understanding and processes, with the end result being a game that leads students through science processes, while giving gamers a culminating activity of experiment design to lead them to better understanding of hand washing.
Learners will ...
- observe hand washing behavior on the Isle of Misfortune
- predict possible solutions
- understand hypothesis formation, and how it differs from research questions
- engage in testing one variable at a time in experiments
- participate in a new approach to independent and dependent variable identification
- draft a hypothesis
- design an experiment
- draw conclusions
- publish findings
- make recommendations for hand washing behavior
Science Learning Through Game Play: Science Pirates
Science Pirates is ideal for middle school students and takes approximately two hours to play.
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