Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools

Seungho Baek; Ji Young Park; Jung Hyun Han

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_19

Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools

Seungho Baek, Ji Young Park, Jung Hyun Han

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Abstract

This paper presents serious games developed for the science subject in elementary and middle schools, specifically for the chapters of “Force and Motion” and “State Change of Water.” The components of each chapter were thoroughly analyzed, and then a game-based curriculum was developed for the components classified as having highor mid-level difficulties in both teaching and learning. Based on the curriculum, the PC-based game “Force and Motion” implemented frictional/gravitational/magnetic force simulations, and the mobile game “State Change of Water” implemented particle-based fluid simulations. The games were evaluated by elementary and middle school teachers, and the evaluation results showed that simulation-based serious games are promising tools for improving the learning effects in science subject.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Remco Veltkamp, Alessandro de Gloria
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	181-188
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783319402154
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_19
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	4th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2015 - Rome, Italy Duration: 2015 Dec 9 → 2015 Dec 11

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9599
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	4th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	15/12/9 → 15/12/11

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP)(No.R0115-15-1011, Physics-based solutions for science experiments in e-Book).

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.

Keywords

Science education
Serious games
Simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Baek, S., Park, J. Y., & Han, J. H. (2016). Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools. In R. Veltkamp, & A. de Gloria (Eds.), Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 181-188). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9599). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_19

Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools. / Baek, Seungho; Park, Ji Young; Han, Jung Hyun.
Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Remco Veltkamp; Alessandro de Gloria. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 181-188 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9599).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Baek, S, Park, JY & Han, JH 2016, Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools. in R Veltkamp & A de Gloria (eds), Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9599, Springer Verlag, pp. 181-188, 4th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2015, Rome, Italy, 15/12/9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_19

Baek S, Park JY, Han JH. Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools. In Veltkamp R, de Gloria A, editors, Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2016. p. 181-188. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_19

Baek, Seungho ; Park, Ji Young ; Han, Jung Hyun. / Simulation-based serious games for science education in elementary and middle schools. Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Remco Veltkamp ; Alessandro de Gloria. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 181-188 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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