ED52A:
Games, Interactive Simulations, and Virtual Labs for Science Teaching and Learning I

Session ID#: 3298

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
102 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Randy M Russell, UCAR, Learning Lab, Boulder, CO, United States and Erin L Wood, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Randy M Russell, UCAR, Learning Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Convener:  Erin L Wood, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
1952 Modeling [INFORMATICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Computational Methods across Scales: Personal to High Performance Platforms

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ED52A-01
Real-Time Climate Simulations in the Interactive 3D Game Universe Sandbox ² (19191)
Naomi L Goldenson, Model World Consulting, Seattle, United States and Universe Sandbox Development Team
ED52A-02
iVFTs - immersive virtual field trips for interactive learning about Earth’s environment. (30091)
Geoffrey Bruce, Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, United States, Steven Semken, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Roger E Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Carol Oliver, University of New South Wales, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Sydney, Austria and Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States
ED52A-03
Games and Simulations for Climate, Weather and Earth Science Education (22460)
Randy M Russell, UCAR, Learning Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
ED53B-3478
A Web-Based Modelling Platform for Interactive Exploration of Regional Responses to Global Change (10147)
Ian Holman, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43, United Kingdom
ED52A-05
Starchitect: Building Worlds and Learning Astronomy on Facebook and Beyond (16016)
James B Harold, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Dean C Hines, Space Telescope Science Institute, Parkville, MD, United States
ED52A-06
A Virtual Rock Physics Laboratory Through Visualized and Interactive Experiments (17116)
Tiziana Vanorio, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Carlo Di Bonito, 3DB Visualization, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Anthony Clark, Stanford University, Geophysics Department, Stanford, CA, United States
ED52A-07
Interactive Puzzles for the mean climate dyanmics and climate change with the Monash Simple Climate Model (20849)
Dietmar Dommenget, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ED52A-08
The CAULDRON game: Helping decision makers understand extreme weather event attribution (30290)
Peter Walton and Friederike Elly Luise Otto, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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