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Learning about (and using!) scientific models is a major emphasis in NGSS. Educational simulations and games about infectious diseases can provide students opportunities to work with simple models in the context of current events.
I have rounded up a list (with links) to several educational simulations & games from various source about diseases and the medical responses to them: https://flyrussell.com/reviews-disease.
Simulations and games provide minds-on, active learning opportunities for students. If you have suddenly shifted to online teaching and need help engaging students in ways that partially substitute for the decrease in face-to-face and hands-on engagement the normal classroom environment provides, consider adding educational simulations to the mix.
I'll be adding more items to my list in the coming weeks.
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Thanks for your games and models, in my opinion modeling in science is very important to discribe the phenomenon and to make a clear view of it, that leads to deep understanding
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Thank you! That is very thoughful of you. I am a student teacher teaching a 5 day science lesson for the first time virtually. So I need all the resources and tips that I can get!
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Mr. Russell,
Thank you for sharing these incredible resources! I am a pre-service elementary education teacher from Wartburg College. I took a look at your list of resources and found them very fascinating. I had not realized such games and simulations existed.
Looking at the content and level of these simulations, I gather that these are obviously for high school level students, perhaps upper middle school. I would be curious to know if you use these resources for assessment, and if so, how? Are their teacher functions in any of the resources?
Also, I would love to know if there are any games and simulations of the same quality as your resources for elementary-aged students. I think these online simulations and games are a great platform to teach students about disease and its spread.
Thank you very much for compiling and sharing these resources with the education community!
Makayla
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Mr. Russel,
These resources are super cool! Thank you for sharing them with us. As a current college student who is on track to be a science teacher, these will be incredibly valuable to me. The simulations and games list that you have compiled is incredible. I can't imagine how difficult it must be teaching in the time of COVID. In my current methods class, we are required to create an online activity for our portfolio, I am definitely going to use one of yours! Thank you for the resource!
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Thank you for sharing the resources for the interactive simulations about disease spread. I'm a math teacher and I tie to the topic using exponential and logistic growth models. I like to use the 3Blue1Brown video series to help student visually see mathematical concepts and I really enjoyed the video on simulating epidemics that was put out back in March. Simulating an Epidemic
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Thank you for the games, great way to get some students to learn.
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Thanks Mona! In case your are interested, I've also posted a page with lists of models/simulations and games for teaching various science topics (not just disease spread) at: flyrussell.com/reviews
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Thank you! These are great tools for students to use, they can play games and simulate models that are similar to what we have going on in our current events.
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Please tell, did you add another list? I can not find.
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I love Pandemic, totally forgot students telling me about Infection so I will be checking that one out.
Thanks for the resources.
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Hello, my name is Nikita Hatley, and I.m a student at Henderson State University, where I am an elementary education major. I learned many new things and resources regarding the NGSS Module and COVID-19. I feel like after reading and looking at everything that was discussed in the forum, I realized a little bit more about the NGSS Standards and how to use them while going through a pandemic. I have a question about getting my students more involved with learning science while going through a pandemic with more interactive activities.
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