Field Day Learning Games

Bloom
Headlines and High Water
Wake: Tales From the Aqualab
Legend of the Lost Emerald

In Bloom, you’ll create trade networks and enact policies that keep farmers in business, while stopping excess manure from entering local lakes and rivers.

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Play as a journalist in the town of Twin Lakes. Will the stories you publish help the town prepare for the flood of the century?

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Take on the role of a scientist as you study ocean ecosystems, travel to exciting ocean research stations, and work with fellow scientists to solve problems.

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Play as a maritime archaeologist uncovering shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Made in partnership with PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Sea Grant.

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Make a game, reach more people

When it comes to sharing your work with the public, the stakes are higher than ever. We'll turn your research into a fun, academically rigorous game that reaches hundreds of thousands of people. Team up with us and become an outreach superstar.

Teacher Fellowships

We work with teachers on all of our learning games. If you're a teacher, come design a game with us!

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Games for Outreach

Are you a researcher? Design a game with us and reach hundreds of thousands of people.

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We make learning games that bring contemporary research to large public audiences.

Games
Mixed Reality

Lakeland
Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case
Lost at the Forever Mine
The Yard Games
Atom Touch
Crystal Cave
The N Game

The Yard Games

This collection of mini games allows kids to explore, play, and experiment with science. Designed in partnership with subject experts and our awesome teacher fellows.

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Atom Touch

This interactive simulation app allows players to explore principles of thermodynamics and molecular dynamics. Created in partnership with the UW-MRSEC research center.

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The Crystal Cave

This game teaches kids in grades 5-8 how crystals form at the molecular level.

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The N Game

This board game teaches players about the Nitrogen Cycle.

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Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case

This award-winning game turns kids into history detectives! Made in partnership with PBS Wisconsin and archivists at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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Lost at the Forever Mine

This space adventure brings mathematical modeling straight to the classroom. Made in partnership with the UW-MRSEC research center.

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Lakeland

This town-building game teaches complex systems. Made in partnership with the Scalable Systems Lab at UW-Madison. Played by thousands of kids a month.

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ARIS
Discover IceCube

ARIS

Create mobile games, tours and interactive stories with ARIS games. Players experience a hybrid world of virtual characters and media in physical space. Anyone who can read can play and design these games. Used in classrooms or informally. IOS device required.

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IceCube

The IceCube Virtual Reality experience puts you in the role of an astrophysicist. You will journey deep into space to track down the source of a neutrino detected by the IceCube observatory in Antarctica. Players learn about the IceCube observatory at the South Pole and the neutrinos they detect. Play at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in Madison, WI or download for your own VR device.

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Siftr

Siftr

Use Siftr to make fieldwork activities easy. Teachers take 5 minutes to create a Siftr and students use mobile devices to collect data and observations outside of the classroom. Siftr helps you focus students, organizes their data and creates automatic visualizations to facilitate discussions in classrooms or online.

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