Spore Video Game Brings Science to Life in Your Classroom
The new Spore game has the potential to teach kids about a number of different scientific and historical concepts, everything from evolution to microbiology to early civilization. Learn how to harness your students’ interest in video games to teach them even more! Quoted from www.brighthub.com
Free Trial of the Creature Creator section for PC/Mac can be downloaded at http://www.spore.com/trial
In the creature creator, students learn carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore, and design their animal with traits to be successful in each life form.
Video of Robin Williams Demonstrating the creature creator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5TXEUiR1Xk
Will Wright Explains the Game – Online Video from TED conference
The Science Behind Spore – WEgame.com online video
Telegraph.co.uk Article The Science of Spore
PBS NewsHour Fun Biology Video Game Lets Players Tinker With Evolution
GDC (Game Developers Conference) News Lessons Learned from Spore
Official Spore Game online Forum Science and Spore
The last stage of the video game has by far the most advanced scientific concepts. Black Holes, Super novas, galaxies, space travel and more…
Darci Lindgren Classroom Site 
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