Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Disease Detective


(image from diseasedetectives.org)

15 comments:

Unknown said...

I thought this game was okay. It had a good concept behind it! I felt like it was a little big to young for Upper School 1.

Brandon Fong said...

I don't really think there is a point to this game other than detective skills, but other than that, there is no point to it.

Danielle said...

I thought it was fun, but not very educational. I felt that it was just saying "people get sick for the same reasons, and people who don't get sick do different things than people who get sick". I got what they were trying to say... but didn't find it educational.

Phia said...

i kind of liked it. it didnt really teach you that much, but it was fun to do. ish

Michael H said...

This sort of does not make sense It was fun but I didn't learn anything about it it only taught us how people got sick and what could be the cure

Anaïs said...

This game was pretty dumb. WHERE'S THE SCIENCE?!?! It's baby-ish and didn't teach me anything. It was kind of fun but I got nothing out of it. BLEEEEEH!

Brandon B said...

There is no science in this game. To speed up the process you don't even have to read the articles. You just have to check it off, if it doesn't delete the other space for the check mark you know you got it right. If it does you got it right. I definitely thought this game was useless.

dharan said...

This game was boring. It didn't teach you a lot about being a detective. I agree with Claire because it was a game for younger students.

Brandon F said...

THE CROWD'S DECISION IS UNANIMOUS: THIS GAME HAS NO SCIENCE CONTENT

Unknown said...

That was pretty fun, but I got the feeling that the game was made for children that are younger than us. It was pretty much NOT about science (like everyone else was saying), NOT about detective skills, and ONLY about collecting data and using it. Even though that is true, it was REALLY confusing because the cave hike AND the lake water had the same data but they only accepted lake water as the correct answer.

Ava said...

I thought this wasn't that educational. Sure I see what they are trying to get across but the way they presented it was kinda boring and baby-ish

Danielle C. said...

I also thought the game took a REALLY long time. It was kind of a waste of time.... there was no point to it. I could have been doing something A LOT more productive than sitting there and playing a game directed towards 8 year olds. I didn't see ANY science in it... it was just detective skills. It was fun for a little bit, sure, but after making checks and x's for 30 minutes, I found it a lot less fun. And like Victoria said.... the cave and the lake water both worked... but it would only respond to 1.

Camille said...

I thought that this game was interesting. It was fun trying to find out which bacteria was the source of the disease (even though two could have worked and they only said that you could use one), and as Claire and Danielle said, it is meant for a younger group.

Cydney Davis said...

I feel that this game didn't really have much of a educational value to it. It was okay but it basically was about these people that were getting sick for a certain reason. It wasn't that fun and educational...it didn't teach me anything.

Cydney said...

I feel that this game didn't really have much of a educational value to it. It was okay but it basically was about these people that were getting sick for a certain reason. It wasn't that fun and educational...it didn't teach me anything.