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Malaria Carrying Mosquito Crash Lands Due to His Insecticide

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Article about Paul Muller, the chemist who discovered DDT.

Compounded

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Compounded is a game about building chemical compounds through careful management of elements, a fair bit of social play and trading, and just a bit of luck.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Play Time: 
90 min.
Compounded

Teaching Secondary Science Through Play

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This book provides broad support for using games in middle and high school science classes including Earth science/living environment, biology, chemistry, and physics. The lesson plans and resources support a play-based approach to evolution, ecosystems, cellular organisms, elements and compounds, and vector motion. Though easy to learn, the included games provide detailed scientific accuracy allowing complex simulations and immersive learning experiences.

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Evolution. Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, Sergey Machin. North Star Games, 2014.

Teaching Secondary Science Through Play

Molecular

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Molecular is a quick, light strategy game for 2-8 players, where you play the role of a nefarious chemist trying to build a molecule for your research.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Science

NOVA: Hunting the Elements (2012)

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Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones.

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Middle
High
Length: 
02:00
NOVA: Hunting the Elements

Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tale (2015)

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Legends say there's a world beneath this one where a dragon lies sleeping. They say be careful how you wake the dragon. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the most profound change in the history of human enterprise on Earth: the unleashing of the elemental force within uranium, the explosion of an atomic bomb, the unleashing of the dragon.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
02:00
Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tale

Chemistry Fluxx

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Chemistry Fluxx is the elemental card game in which the rules are always changing. Use atoms and laboratory gear to match the current goal and win!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Play Time: 
20 min.
Chemistry Fluxx

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