Portal 2 for Teaching Physics
Just happened to run across the news entitled Valve introduces 'Teach with Portals' yesterday, question I pondered was, what is it? After some research I found that Portal 2 is a gaming platform developed by Valve studios to teach students basically the concepts of physics but also extends to maths, chemistry, engineering and language arts. Based on Valve’s best-selling game, Portal 2, it is free educational collection of puzzles and teacher-created content that helps to build an innovative curriculum. Vow part is that it also offers free lesson plans for teachers. All they have to do is to do a sign-up process for the summer beta and once approved by the education team, they are ready to go! I could not stop myself from exploring the lesson plans in Physics based on this amazing world of gaming. Here is the sneak-peak at the descriptions of summary of few lesson plans- On Specific velocity - Students will have freedom in this lesson to build a puzzle that...