The activities and resources provided here represent materials developed by the Possible Worlds and Analogy Mapping Study teams to help teacher-participants of the field studies integrate the digital games into their customary teaching of heat transfer.
This is a sample teaching sequence for integrating Galactic Gloop Zoo into the topic of heat transfer. The sequence was was developed and refined during the classroom field-testing of the digital game and the support materials.
This slide deck is a presentation to use after students have played the Galactic Gloop Zoo game. It presents animations from the game and asks students what they did in the game and the strategies they used to play.
This slide deck is a brief, general introduction to the topic of heat transfer and addresses the misconceptions that heat is a substance or that a cold object can transfer "coolness" to a warmer object. The presentation includes information on convection, conduction, and radiation.
This slide deck is used to help students map visualizations from the game to heat transfer concepts. It presents animations from different parts of the game alongside images of convection, conduction, and radiation. The slides are designed to scaffold mapping across the source and target of the analogy.
The purpose of this hands-on activity is for students to understand that heat transfers from a warmer object to a cooler object until both reach the same temperature. Students predict what will happen when two equal amounts of water at different temperatures are mixed.
This activity addresses the nature of heat transfer through conduction. The purpose of the activity is for students to experience the direction of heat transfer and the correlation between the temperature of molecules and the movement of molecules. Students model conduction through movement and the transfer of small objects representing energy.
A simple radiation meter, consisting of a fast-response temperature sensor taped to a black-painted foil surface on foam insulation, allows students to explore radiative transfer at ordinary temperatures.
The Galactic Gloop Zoo mini-game is a stand-alone Flash app that provides four sample levels of Galactic Gloop Zoo for classroom discussion of the three types of heat transfer illustrated in the game.
This PDF contains four 1 page simple assessments:PRE-reflection activity, gameplay exit ticket, POST-reflection Activity, and second gameplay exit ticket.
