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Presidential Decisions Game

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Presidential Decisions Game

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Overview
Presidential Decisions Game
Anders Liljeholm [3]
NISE Network product
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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 [7]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed
Peer reviewed? check_reviewed
Visitor evaluation? check_not_reviewed

Nano Topics

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Audience

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Tags

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Permissions

Creative Commons license image [25]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Media

What kind of media?: 

Online games and activities

Nano topics: 

Society, policy, and economics

Audience: 

11 and up

Content keywords: 

society
research
science
science
technology
president
oval office
white house
vote
lobby
lobbyist
decide
presidential
government
govern

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

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K-12: 

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.
Standards

Science and Technology: 

5-8: Understanding about science and technology
9-12: Understanding about science and technology

History and nature of science: 

5-8: Science as a human endeavor
9-12: Science as a human endeavor

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 zip file [2]

Download all files (ZIP) [2]

Files: 

application/zip iconpresidentialdecisions.zip [26]

Links: 

Play the game online at www.omsi.edu [27]
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[1] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/media
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[3] http://www.nisenet.org/users/anders-liljeholm
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[5] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/images/catalog/10920/screenhunter__sep._1702.jpg
[6] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/images/catalog/10920/screenhunter__sep._1703.jpg
[7] http://www.nisenet.org/community/organizations/oregon-museum-science-industry
[8] http://www.nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/society-policy-economics
[9] http://www.nisenet.org/category/audience/11
[10] http://www.nisenet.org/category/content-keywords/society
[11] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/research
[12] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/science
[13] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/science_0
[14] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/technology
[15] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/president
[16] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/oval_office
[17] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/white_house
[18] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/vote
[19] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/lobby
[20] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/lobbyist
[21] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/decide
[22] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/presidential
[23] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/government
[24] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/govern
[25] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[26] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/10920/presidentialdecisions.zip
[27] http://www.omsi.edu/exhibits/nano/president.html