Developing Serious Games to Improve Learning and Increase Interest in STEM Careers for Middle School Students: The Mice of Riddle Place(r)
To address the need for high quality interactive curricula for STEM learning, Meadowlark Science and Education is creating a series of educational games, The Mice of Riddle Place(r) A Design based Research method is being used to create standards and inquiry based learning games for middle school classrooms. Early evaluations of "The Incident of Izzy Ramirez" an asthma oriented game module that uses game based problem solving, conceptual reasoning, and goal oriented decision making for improving STEM proficiency indicates teacher, student, and research based alignment with design practices.
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