Featured Game
Electrocity - An excellent game that requires students to balance energy use, population growth and environmental concerns as the mayor and main decision maker of a small town with big potential. Students manage resources, taxation rates and can even send everyone to bed before 8pm. Easy to play and fun for grown ups as well.
Infested Waters List
World of Fresh Water Research
Water, A Resource Guide
The Green Scum: Phosphorus
Mississippi Drainage Map
MN Watershed Map
Lessons and Activities:
Aquafier in a Cup
Water Pollution
MN Watersheds
Wetland Word Search
Hug a Tree - A quick and fun activity that can blossom into further study if desired
K-2 Lessons - Great Activities
Introduction to Water
Drinking and Waste Water Treatment
Surface Water
Ground Water
Coastal and Wetlands
Correlations
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Educational Games for Students:
Levers – Students must use their brains to balance the various objects dropped their way.
Assembler- An increasingly difficult game of physical manipulation
Human Cannonball – Students control the velocity and the trajectory of the cannon and must land the human cannonball safely on the mattress.
Lemonade Stand – Students manage their vary own lemonade stand. They purchase ingredients, experiment with various recipes, set prices, and hope for a high demand. Teaches proportions, supply and demand, and other basic principles of capitalism.
Coffee Shop –For those of you in need of a caffeine fix, students can also manage their vary own Coffee Shop. They purchase ingredients, experiment with various recipes, set prices, and hope for a high demand. Teaches proportions, supply and demand, and other basic principles of capitalism.
Trade Ruler – Nobel Award winning , has developed his prize winning theory into a short game that has students maximize production and trade efficiencecy in a global market.
Viking Quest - Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond. Victory!!!!!
Roller Coaster Creator - Build your own roller coaster and attempt to complete all 30 levels in this harmless time waster. Is that an oxymoron?
Number Munchers - A great math game from the 80s. Move the Muncher around the board and hit the space bar when you are on the right number. Watch out for the purple Troggles, I think it is trying to eat you. Multiplication, Factors, equality, and inequality.
Magic Pen – Students must draw the necessary components to achieve the goal. The first few levels are easy, but they don’t stay that way very long.
Einstein’s Twin – This game provides students an advanced piece of knowledge in a fun environment.
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