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Were you good at science? I loved science, and did fine in biology, but chemistry and physics? Not so much. I was having this conversation with a colleague last week and we were discussing the fact that at the time, most of our learning came from our high school biology textbook, our high school chemistry textbook, our high school physics textbook or some other high school science textbook. In biology, at least we got to dissect actual (formerly) living things, maybe that’s why it sunk in so much easier for me.
 

This led to a discussion about how lucky our kids are now to have so much available to them in the world of inquiry based science. Educational textbook publishers, like Kendall Hunt, well, we’re not just school textbook publishers anymore. Take, for instance, our Forensic Science for High School program. Yes, there is a book, but there’s also an interactive website with the new edition that will have virtual autopsies and other interactive investigations. Another of our programs, Nano Legends, is a video game in which students learn cellular biology by helping a nano-adventurer kill a cancer cell! There was a great article about learning through video games in the NY Daily News a couple months ago. You can read it here.
 

Learning science through video games…even I might have pulled an A out of Chemistry that way!