Ebook Free Download | Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations | At the time of scientific and technological competence are very important for the future of the nation, weak performance of U.S. students in science reflects the uneven quality of science education today. Although young children come to school with an innate curiosity and intuitive ideas about the world around them, science classes rarely take advantage of this potential. Many experts have called for new approaches to science education, based on recent and ongoing research on teaching and learning. In this approach, simulations and games can play an important role to overcome a lot of goals and mechanisms for learning of science: the motivation to learn science, conceptual understanding, science process skills, understanding of the nature of science, scientific discourse and argumentation, and identification with science and learning of science. continue reading…