Futuristic Web Game Teaches Kids About Medical Science

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FUTURISTIC WEB GAME TEACHES KIDS
ABOUT MEDICAL SCIENCE

Web Game for Middle School Students Aims to
Educate and Entertain

“It is the year 2252, 10
years after the Great Plague that ran through Earth’s population, killing
millions and causing the collapse of civilization. Now the Earth has entered a
new Dark Age, a time when much of the knowledge from the past has been lost. You
are a member of an elite group known as The Reconstructors, and you help the
People by recovering lost medical knowledge. Your skills are urgently needed
because painkillers are almost nonexistent now. Stories and documents refer to
powerful pain relieving medicine from the past.”

So begins the journey of “The Reconstructors,” a
multimedia computer game designed to both teach and entertain middle school
students. With dramatic music pulsing in the background, students conduct
virtual experiments with mice, don their “virtual information viewer” to travel
around the world and help their companions Alpha and Beta, and a robot, Delta,
explore a medical mystery of the future