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Article: Science Education Just Got Game! Tabula Digita Introduces League of Scientists Video Game.
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- Business Wire
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- August 13, 2009
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Free to Play, Web-based Learning Tool Filled with High-Energy Science Curriculum;
Developed in Partnership with the Monsanto Fund and the International Society for Technology in Education
NEW YORK -- It is widely acknowledged that around fourth grade, students' interest in science plummets, as do their test scores. The reason, in part, is that the experiments and observations of nature so prominent in the early grades, give way to lectures and lab reports in the upper elementary and middle school grades. In a word, students become bored.
To stem the tide of apathy toward science and make it exciting, memorable and most importantly, relevant, ...