Physics
Physics high school
Transistori
In this game, your job working at a Transistor Recycling Centre is to ensure that only items containing transistors are sent to the recycling machine. Goods enter the recycling machine via a conveyer belt, and you must remove all the items that do not contain transistors. You are awarded one point for each item that you correctly remove from the belt. If you mistakenly remove an item with a transistor, two points will be deducted from your total score. The game has an infinite number of levels, and you will be evaluated at the end of each level. When you have completed one level you can move onto the next, in which the belt moves faster and there will be new items to sort. If you're really skilled you could become this month's super recycler!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
MedMyst
In MedMyst: Disease Defenders, players can choose to train with an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to learn how these experts work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks while using the scientific method. Each expert path has its own learning objectives and stresses different parts of the scientific method.
Target Audience: Middle school
Game Format: One independent mission / Single Player
Game Time: 45 min
Techville Game
The Techville educational game and related reading are based on the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for the invention of the integrated circuit.
What is an integrated circuit?
How is an integrated circuit made?
What are integrated circuits used for?
Integrated circuits can be found in almost every modern electrical device; such as computers, cars, television sets, CD players, cell phones, and so on. But what is an integrated circuit and what is the history behind it? Learn about Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby and his part in the invention that is the basis of all modern technology.
In the beginning of this game you have to make the quiz consisting of four questions, otherwise you will not be able to move on in this game. The answers to the questions are found in the museum. As "Maria" you walk around in the fantasy town "Techville" in Texas. At some points you have to give the right answers or figure out something before you can move on. You will pass a portal that takes you back in time to Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby's lab in 1958, among other things. The challenge in this game is to make it to the end.
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window
The Invar & Steel Alloys Game
The Invar and Steel Alloys educational game and related reading are based on the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for discovering the steel alloy Invar.
What is an alloy? What kind of ingredients could a steel alloy have? What different kinds of steel alloys are there? What are the different steel alloys used for?
This game is a crash course in how to make steel alloys. Alloys are mixtures of substances in which the resulting material has metallic properties. They are usually produced by melting the mixture of ingredients. Steel, brass and amalgam are a few examples of alloys. Invar, from the word "invariable", is a special steel alloy - used today in toasters and CRT-monitors, for example. In the game you will be given "an order" to make a special steel product - a different product each time you play. Your mission will be to find the steel alloy that suits this product best, mix the "ingredients", and finally, try to place as many molds as possible on a "steel dough". If you're quick at making alloys you could end up on the all-time high score list!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button at the bottom of the game window.
Laser Challenge Game
The Laser Challenge educational game and related reading are based on several Nobel Prize awarded discoveries in physics that are related to the invention of the laser.
What is a laser? What are lasers used for?
Professor Photon has invented the super laser, and you have to arrange a laser party to celebrate! Your mission in this game is to collect points, CDs and snacks. Collect a star and answer its laser question correctly, and you'll receive bonus points. But watch out for the slackers and the snack crackers who will try to steal your party goodies. At the end of each level, you'll have to perform a laser task, such as recognising appliances that contain lasers and repairing faulty eyesight. Collect enough CDs and snacks and you will have a laser party to remember -- collect as many points as you can and you could end up on the top 10 high-score list.
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
Microscopes - simulations
The production Microscopes including microscope simulations, photo galleries, readings, and a quiz, is based on the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1953 and 1986 Nobel Prizes in Physics, which all were awarded for the development of different kinds of microscope.
Why are different kinds of microscope needed? What can you see in a phase contrast microscope? What can you see in a fluorescence microscope? What can you see in a transmission electron microscope? What can you see in a scanning tunnelling microscope?
Here you can read and find out about different kinds of microscope - what you can see in them and how to prepare specimens for a particular microscope. You can also try the four different microscope simulators and watch and compare images taken with phase contrast microscopes, fluorescence microscopes, transmission electron microscopes and scanning tunnelling microscopes. Test your knowledge of microscopes by answering the 20 questions in the "Microscope quiz".
In this game, your job working at a Transistor Recycling Centre is to ensure that only items containing transistors are sent to the recycling machine. Goods enter the recycling machine via a conveyer belt, and you must remove all the items that do not contain transistors. You are awarded one point for each item that you correctly remove from the belt. If you mistakenly remove an item with a transistor, two points will be deducted from your total score. The game has an infinite number of levels, and you will be evaluated at the end of each level. When you have completed one level you can move onto the next, in which the belt moves faster and there will be new items to sort. If you're really skilled you could become this month's super recycler!For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
MedMyst
In MedMyst: Disease Defenders, players can choose to train with an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to learn how these experts work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks while using the scientific method. Each expert path has its own learning objectives and stresses different parts of the scientific method.Target Audience: Middle school
Game Format: One independent mission / Single Player
Game Time: 45 min
Techville Game
The Techville educational game and related reading are based on the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for the invention of the integrated circuit.What is an integrated circuit?
How is an integrated circuit made?
What are integrated circuits used for?
Integrated circuits can be found in almost every modern electrical device; such as computers, cars, television sets, CD players, cell phones, and so on. But what is an integrated circuit and what is the history behind it? Learn about Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby and his part in the invention that is the basis of all modern technology.
In the beginning of this game you have to make the quiz consisting of four questions, otherwise you will not be able to move on in this game. The answers to the questions are found in the museum. As "Maria" you walk around in the fantasy town "Techville" in Texas. At some points you have to give the right answers or figure out something before you can move on. You will pass a portal that takes you back in time to Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby's lab in 1958, among other things. The challenge in this game is to make it to the end.
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window
The Invar & Steel Alloys Game
The Invar and Steel Alloys educational game and related reading are based on the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for discovering the steel alloy Invar.What is an alloy? What kind of ingredients could a steel alloy have? What different kinds of steel alloys are there? What are the different steel alloys used for?
This game is a crash course in how to make steel alloys. Alloys are mixtures of substances in which the resulting material has metallic properties. They are usually produced by melting the mixture of ingredients. Steel, brass and amalgam are a few examples of alloys. Invar, from the word "invariable", is a special steel alloy - used today in toasters and CRT-monitors, for example. In the game you will be given "an order" to make a special steel product - a different product each time you play. Your mission will be to find the steel alloy that suits this product best, mix the "ingredients", and finally, try to place as many molds as possible on a "steel dough". If you're quick at making alloys you could end up on the all-time high score list!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button at the bottom of the game window.
Laser Challenge Game
The Laser Challenge educational game and related reading are based on several Nobel Prize awarded discoveries in physics that are related to the invention of the laser.What is a laser? What are lasers used for?
Professor Photon has invented the super laser, and you have to arrange a laser party to celebrate! Your mission in this game is to collect points, CDs and snacks. Collect a star and answer its laser question correctly, and you'll receive bonus points. But watch out for the slackers and the snack crackers who will try to steal your party goodies. At the end of each level, you'll have to perform a laser task, such as recognising appliances that contain lasers and repairing faulty eyesight. Collect enough CDs and snacks and you will have a laser party to remember -- collect as many points as you can and you could end up on the top 10 high-score list.
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
Microscopes - simulations
The production Microscopes including microscope simulations, photo galleries, readings, and a quiz, is based on the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1953 and 1986 Nobel Prizes in Physics, which all were awarded for the development of different kinds of microscope.Why are different kinds of microscope needed? What can you see in a phase contrast microscope? What can you see in a fluorescence microscope? What can you see in a transmission electron microscope? What can you see in a scanning tunnelling microscope?
Here you can read and find out about different kinds of microscope - what you can see in them and how to prepare specimens for a particular microscope. You can also try the four different microscope simulators and watch and compare images taken with phase contrast microscopes, fluorescence microscopes, transmission electron microscopes and scanning tunnelling microscopes. Test your knowledge of microscopes by answering the 20 questions in the "Microscope quiz".