Presidential Decisions Game

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Overview

Description:

This Flash game presents you, the President, with several national decisions about nanotechnology. Advisors and lobbyists give suggestions as you try to remain popular and get reelected.

Objectives

Big Idea:

The future is difficult to predict, even with lots of information.

Learning goals:

Nanotechnology can affect our society in many ways.
Predicting how science and technology research will turn out is difficult.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_not_reviewed

Nano Topics

Society, policy, and economics

Audience

11 and up

Permissions

Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Standards

History and nature of science:

5-8: Science as a human endeavor

9-12: Science as a human endeavor

Science and Technology:

5-8: Understanding about science and technology

9-12: Understanding about science and technology

Science as inquiry:

5-8: Understanding about scientific inquiry

9-12: Understanding about scientific inquiry

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:

5-8: Risks and benefits

5-8: Science and technology in society

9-12: Environmental quality

9-12: Natural and human-induced hazards

9-12: Personal and community health

9-12: Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges

Resources

Download all files (ZIP)

Files:

presidentialdecisions.zip

Links:

Play the game online at www.omsi.edu

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