Kill Aliens and Pass Chemistry

Professors Carlos Morales and Gabriela Weaver of Purdue have joined forces to teach students chemistry under the disguise of a video game. Players battle aliens and other forces that are trying to destroy the planet by increasing global warming. In each of seven rooms there is a chemistry-based challenge that the students must perform to continue on to the next level. Finish the game and you destroy the aliens’ nuclear reactor.

Morales, who previously worked as a game developer for Xbox, said “I was taken aback by how involved game players become in the game microworlds, how that world inside the game works, how players learn to navigate in that world and continuously strive to improve their performance.”

The game is currently being tested and evaluated by Purdue students, so it will be a while before the rest of us can save the planet.

 

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