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3D multi-user medical simulation in a Virtual World
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PhET : Interactive Science Simulations
http://phet.colorado.edu/
Interactive Science Simulations
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

Roleplay and Simulations on Twitter
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Roleplay and Simulations on Twitter

Free Simulation Games Online
http://www.freesimulationgames.net
Free Simulation Games Online, it is connected with no wonder why game enthusiasts - little ones, grown ups, masters, as well as newcomers, are being crazy just for Free Sim Games. When you finally sit down and begin playing it is just a different globe!
Other Online Simulator Games toss you in to the future where items of mass devastation are at your discretion...rifles how the World is usually still to see.

Sim-U - An Online UniverCITY - Business Simulations
http://sim-u.com/
Business simulations in the first completely online MMOS in the world. Engage students in a virtual world where they can test their knowledge and skills in a risk free environment.
Learn and apply skills in marketing, operation, marketing, human resources, and general management.
Not free but there are some trial areas.

3rd World Farmer
http://www.gamesforchange.org/play/
3rd World Farmer lets players manage a small virtual farm in a developing country, and thus experience the hardships and dilemmas faced by the poor.
Games for Change (G4C) is a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change.
| Human Rights | Economics | Public Policy | Public Health | Poverty | Environment | Global Conflict | News | Politics |

Zap
http://www.zapdramatic.com/dramas.htm
Zap produces addictive negotiation games for ENTERTAINMENT and life skills development. We also create interactive advertising and educational content.
e.g. The Print Shop Demo - great for practicing decision making and negotiation skills with a difficult customer!

IndustryMasters
http://www.industrymasters.com
IndustryMasters browser-based business simulation with more than 200 industries grouped into 16 industry sectors: Aerospace, Automotive, Beverages, Energy, Cosmetics, Appliances, Electronics, Recreation, Agriculture, Processed Food ,Staple Food, Machinery, Metal, Pharma, Wood & Paper,Textile.
IndustryMasters simulates all aspects of management: from Strategy, Investment and Finance to Product Pricing, Marketing, Quality, R&D, HR and Ecology.
You take the role of an entrepreneur and compete live against players from around the globe for market share, profit and shareholder value.

Titan : Business Simulation
http://titan.ja.org/
Titan : Business Simulation
Test your skills running a business in this ultimate business simulation! As CEO, you will match wits in the competitive, technologically advanced industry of the Holo-Generator
Set in the year 2035, JA Titan creates a world in which players are CEOs of their own companies. Originally conceived in the 1980s as the Management and Economic Simulation Exercise, or MESE, JA Titan is a widely recognized business simulation for high school students.
During game play, students must run a manufacturing company and master six key business decisions: price of product, production levels, marketing expenses, research and development costs, capital investment level, and charitable giving. Various corporate assistants “help” the player through each phase, or “quarter,” of game play.

Learning by Simulations
http://www.vias.org/simulations/
Simulations play a central role in learning by doing, since the understanding of concepts and fundamental ideas is closely related to being able to experiment with a topic or a particular aspect of it.
Learning by Simulations has been developed to support both teachers and students in the process of knowledge transfer and knowledge acquisition. It currently contains about 40 simulations dealing with mathematical, phyiscal, chemical, or computer science problems. Most of the simulations are available both in English and German language.

Discover! Simulations ... Science
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsc/content/simulation/
Discover! Simulations ... Science
An IMPRESSIVE collection from Houghton Mifflin Science

The Shodor Foundation
http://www.shodor.org/
"The Shodor Foundation, a nonprofit education and research corporation, is "dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modeling and simulation technologies." Shodor recognized that professional computational science tools, especially graphics and animations, could be adapted for classroom use.
The foundation's Web site offers access to a repertoire of software and provides value-added aids, such as curriculum materials for students, sorted by grade and subject, for students, teachers, and parents."

Hydro Hijinks Diplomacy Game (Second Life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS2JT9IV3CM
Hydro Hijinks Diplomacy Game
Updated (as of 03/26) walkthrough of an award-winning diplomacy game created in Second Life, by the students of IS195 at Montgomery College, Rockville Maryland.

NationStates
http://www.nationstates.net/
NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society's less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the United Nations or remain a rogue state. It's really up to you.

The Classroom Sim : Simulation Discipline Strategies
http://www.ahaprocess.com/store/Sims.html
The Classroom Sim can help you refine your discipline skills before you ever set foot in the classroom.
You simply play the computer game by making classroom decisions, enforcing and modifying rules, and responding to events initiated by students, parents, and administrators. At the end of each quarter you will receive feedback on how your decisions might affect the happiness, behavior, and academic progress of your students.
Set includes Simulation Software Activation and Companion Edition Book: Working with Students: Discipline Strategies for the 21st Century; Simulation Companion Edition

PeaceMaker
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/peacemaker/TheGame.htm
PeaceMaker is a one-player game in which the player can choose to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President. The player must react to in-game events, from diplomatic negotiations to military attacks, and interact with eight other political leaders and social groups in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before his or her term in office ends.
Real-time and Location-Based Events. Videos and pictures from a library of real-time news events are interjected into gameplay. Relevant events are presented on a high-resolution map of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

Simulations from Persuasive Games
http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/
Simulations at Persuasive Games
This company produces several simulations that would be useful in a number of different curriculum areas
Disaffected! - a videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons. Disaffected! puts the player in the role of employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko’s store.
Airport Insecurity - a game about inconvenience and the tradeoffs between security and rights in American airports.
Stone City – Cold Stone Creamery, Inc. - Cold Stone commissioned an employee training game to focus on the issue portion sizes and their relationship to profitability.

Lemonade Stand
http://www.primarygames.com/socstudies/lemonade/start.htm
Lemonade Stand
Welcome to Lemonade Stand! Your goal in this game will be to make as much money as you can within 30 days. To do this, you've decided to open your own business -- a Lemonade Stand!
You'll have complete control over almost every part of your business, including pricing, quality control, inventory control, and purchasing supplies. You'll also have to deal with the weather, which can be unpredictable.

Environment Simulation
http://www.kineticcity.com/controlcar/activity.php?act=4&virus=flossil
Environment Simulation
Until recently, most of the environments on Earth stayed pretty much the same for hundreds or even thousands of years. But now, humans can change an environment practically overnight. Just think what a bulldozer can do to a two-thousand-year-old forest! In this Mind Game, you?l see how big changes to the environment can affect the animals that live there.
In this game, you can control how much pollution lands on the trees. Just click on the slider and drag it toward "More Pollution" (orange) or "Less Pollution" (green). Then sit back and watch what happens to the bugs!

Evolution Lab
http://www.biologyinmotion.com/evol/index.html
Evolution Lab ... evolution simulation

Simulation Sports Leagues
http://www.playasport.com/
Simulation Sports Leagues
Playasport users can participate in one of many simulation sports games, including baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer.
Additionally we have tennis, figure skating, golf, and racing games that let you manage your own player through a season of events.
Playasport is a free sports simulation site, with daily results and rankings.

Coffee Tycoon
http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/coffeetycoon/index.html
Coffee Tycoon lets gamers build a coffee empire. Starting fresh with one store, players customize their coffee business by giving it a name and choosing a logo and store design. From there, they'll choose a city to start their coffee empire, maybe New York or L.A., or if they're really daring, the coffee capital of the world: Seattle!
FREE downloadable trial version (12 MB)

Diner Dash
http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/dinerdash/
Diner Dash
Diner Dash Diner Dash blends the best in fast paced-action puzzles with a build-your-restaurant-empire theme that encourages players to serve their way from a two-table diner to the top of the restaurant ladder - starting with a run-of-the-mill greasy spoon and ending in a dream restaurant that will take your breath away.
FREE trial version (10.4 MB)

FlightGear : open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.
http://www.flightgear.org/
FlightGear : an open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.
We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.

Main Games Areas on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/games/
Main Games Areas on Shambles ... computer, physical, mental, traditional, board, recreational etc. ... and also subject/curriculum specific games.
Also Games research and theory

Lemonade Stand : Simulation
http://www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/
Lemonade Stand : Simulation
Your goal in this game will be to make as much money as you can within 30 days. To do this, you've decided to open your own business -- a Lemonade Stand! You'll have complete control over almost every part of your business, including pricing, quality control, inventory control, and purchasing supplies.
You'll also have to deal with the weather, which can be unpredictable. Unfortunately, the weather will play a big part when customers are deciding whether or not to buy your product.

Life in the Trenches in World War One
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/
Life in the Trenches in World War One: A decision-making game
In this game you will be a British soldier who joins the army in 1914 to fight the Germans.
You will have to make decisions in tough circumstances. At the end you will be given a score.
By playing this game you will learn about the conditions which soldiers lived and fought in, and the dangers they faced.

FREE Concert Tour Game
http://www.headbone.com/wtvrags/
FREE Concert Tour Game (Simulation)
Rake in as much cash as you can taking "Groovy Gravy" on a 10 week concert tour. Choose music venues, set ticket prices, record new songs and decide how much to spend on advertising. There's more info about how to play, and how to win in the Rules.

Economics Simulations : Lesson Plans
http://www.fte.org/teacher-resources/lesson-plans/efiahlessons/
Economics Simulations : Lesson Plans
Bead Game Simulation | Money Simulation (Mini-Economy) |

Science & Maths Simulations
http://www.explorelearning.com/
Science & Maths Simulations : subscription service but there is a free trial.
... and there are LOTS of them!

The Education Arcade
http://education.mit.edu/
The Education Arcade Gallery
The Education Arcade represents a consortium of international game designers, publishers, scholars, educators, and policy makers who are exploring the new frontiers of educational media that have been opened by computer and video games.
The company plan to release some elaborate simulations and may well be worth visiting in the future
For example
Environmental Detectives : an outdoor Augmented Reality game using PocketPCs equipped with GPS sensors. Teams investigate a simulated spill of a toxic chemical in a real-world environment.
Mystery at the Museum : is the first indoor Augmented Reality simulation created by the MIT Teacher Education Program. In this game, teams consisting of a Biologist, a Technologist and a Detective must work together to solve a crime

Educational Simulations
http://www.educationalsimulations.com/
Educational Simulations is dedicated to enhancing understanding and compassion in an increasingly global society.
Our lead product, Real Lives 2004, offers a first-person simulation of life in any of over 190 different countries.
Real Lives is a unique, interactive life sim that enables you to live one of billions of lives in any country in the world. Through statistically accurate events, Real Lives brings to life different cultures, political systems, economic opportunities, personal decisions, health issues, family issues, schooling, jobs, religions, geography, war, peace, and more!

Educational Simulations, Inc.
http://www.simulations.com/
Educational Simulations, Inc.

The Lemonade Stand - Simulation
http://www.lemonadegame.com/
The Lemonade Stand - Simulation - online

Duck Builder - simulation
https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/duckBuilder
Duck Builder - simulation ... requires a file to be downloaded.

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