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Quest Atlantis: It's a 3-D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) game aimed at children 9-16. Players as avatars engage in interactive simulations. For example, the avatars have to handle challenges such as a polluted river that must be cleaned up. I'm thinking the Ecosystems unit!

Does it work? Research by Barab et al (2009) says it does. In the study, students who learned by playing such games did much better on multiple-guess (sorry, multiple-choice) and open-ended sections of a test than students who studied an electronic textbook.

How can we get Quest Atlantis? : It's available only to schools. Individuals can't subscribe or by the game on their own.

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