Skip to content Skip to navigation

Connexions

You are here: Home » Content » Wonderville website review

Navigation

Lenses

What is a lens?

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

This content is ...

Affiliated with (What does "Affiliated with" mean?)

This content is either by members of the organizations listed or about topics related to the organizations listed. Click each link to see a list of all content affiliated with the organization.
  • Siyavula display tagshide tags

    This module is approved and included inLens: Siyavula Project Resources
    By: Siyavula

    Review Status: Approved

    Click the "Siyavula" link to see all content affiliated with them.

    Click the tag icon tag icon to display tags associated with this content.

Recently Viewed

This feature requires Javascript to be enabled.

Tags

(What is a tag?)

These tags come from the endorsement, affiliation, and other lenses that include this content.
 

Wonderville website review

Module by: Bridget Nash. E-mail the author

Summary: Games and videos aimed at middle school learners to help them visually grasp Life Science concepts. Videos from professional Biologists explaining concepts they are fascinated with.

Figure 1
Figure 1 (graphics1.png)
http://www.wonderville.ca/v3/unity/nanogame.html

A series of 3D games to help middle school students better understand Science and Life Science.

A free and interactive tool with a variety of games.

Games available for biology learners

Dirt on soil

This game teachers younger children about the plant life cycle and the best environments different plants grow in. With this interactive game they will learn to grow a variety of plants in different soil types with different amounts of water and sunlight.

Flight into the body

This game deals with the bodies immune system; how viruses are formed and how the body fights infection. This game is suitable for grade 7-9 learners

What water

An interactive game that teachers learners about the properties of water.

Videos available for biology learners

Figure 2
Figure 2 (graphics5.png)
Figure 3
Figure 3 (graphics4.png)
Figure 4
Figure 4 (graphics3.png)
Figure 5
Figure 5 (graphics2.png)

These videos are free and open. They cover a wide variety of topic and are intended to be used as an enrichment material for your lesson. The idea is a specialist in the field explains the real life implications of what learners are being taught. The learners are exposed to career opportunities and learn practical applications from people who are really enthusiastic about the topic.

Content actions

Download module as:

PDF | EPUB (?)

What is an EPUB file?

EPUB is an electronic book format that can be read on a variety of mobile devices.

Downloading to a reading device

For detailed instructions on how to download this content's EPUB to your specific device, click the "(?)" link.

| More downloads ...

Add module to:

My Favorites (?)

'My Favorites' is a special kind of lens which you can use to bookmark modules and collections. 'My Favorites' can only be seen by you, and collections saved in 'My Favorites' can remember the last module you were on. You need an account to use 'My Favorites'.

| A lens I own (?)

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

| External bookmarks