Uncharted Depths
 
 
 
 

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It is the distant future. You are a scientist; a prominent inter-planetary researcher known for your pioneering efforts to understand the fabric of life's tapestry on remote, uninhabited worlds. A mob...

It is the distant future. You are a scientist; a prominent inter-planetary researcher known for your pioneering efforts to understand the fabric of life's tapestry on remote, uninhabited worlds. A mobile research station grants you access to mysterious, unexplored sea-scapes, and a submersible equipped with tools for collecting data (EG phosphorous readings) and capturing specimens allows you to investigate and decode complex alien ecosystems; specifically, creature relationships (EG symbiosis), population dynamics, trophic models, and water quality.

Uncharted Depths (also dubbed “the game of scientific inquiry”) is designed to teach the practices - both procedural and cognitive - by which science professionals form questions, collect data, compile data into defensible theories, articulate said theories, and participate in scientific communities of practice. In the game, players conduct lab-based controlled experiments and field-based measurements/observations in order to develop, refine, and defend a scientific theory.

 
 
 
 

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New Shaffer Book

Thu 21 May 2009 - 05:16PM by Dan Norton

Look for mention of Uncharted Depths in David Shaffer's recently published book, How Computer...

ELSPA Report

Mon 06 Jul 2009 - 11:31AM by Dan Norton

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (the British equivalent of the ESA), in association with the Department for Education and Skills, recently...