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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationGames and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers
    EditorsRemco Veltkamp, Alessandro de Gloria
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages181-188
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)9783319402154
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    Event4th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2015 - Rome, Italy
    Duration: 2015 Dec 92015 Dec 11

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume9599
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other4th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2015
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityRome
    Period15/12/915/12/11

    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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