Education

Left Brain Games, Inc. provides interactive content for a variety of educational clients, using both Shockwave and Flash to teach, test, inform, and reinforce learning. Both tools are used to create captivating games to reinforce awareness of concepts and terms. More advanced projects incorporate teaching and testing of textbook curriculum at many grade levels, from pre-school through college.

Whether it is as simple as updating an existing software product for new operating systems, or building a totally new teaching system from the ground up, Left Brain Games has the experience and expertise to provide the best solution for your budget and timeline.

Working with associated service vendors, with years of experience in formal education, animation, design, and project management, Left Brain Games provides reliable and inexpensive solutions that are fun, creative, and engaging.

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	Fight Bac Board Game Food Safety research project for the University of Connecticut. Designed and executed using Macromedia Director. Reinforces and tests knowledge of Food Safety information using a simple board game.
	UCONN Quiz tool Project for the University of Connecticut. Designed and executed using Macromedia Flash. A simple animated quiz tool that makes use of external text files containing the questions. This makes it possible for the client to create entire new question sets without needing to modify the source code.
	Bac Attack Food Safety research project for the University of Connecticut. This game is designed to complement learning tools, as a reward for completing food safety education modules. It is themed, quick to play, and fun. This game was created using Shockwave 3D.
	Safety Pinball Food Safety research project for the University of Connecticut. This game is designed to complement learning tools, as a reward for completing food safety related material. themed, quick to play, and fun.

Food Safety Situations

Food Safety research project for the University of Connecticut.

A simulation created using Shockwave. Students travel through a virtual world finding food safety situations. They click on questionable situations and answer questions pertaining to the situation.
This lesson is meant to enhance and reinforce established knowledge. Situations are selected at random. Once 10 questions are answered the student selects a reward game.

Demo by request

Paws in Typing Town revisions

McGraw-Hill Education

Updated existing CD based learning tool to newest version of Director, replaced QuickTime with Flash video, created new CD version for younger audience, online version, network version, and a young adult version. Product includes a teacher tool for tracking student progress.
(Due to the client's limited budget, the original audio remains. Original product was designed to run in 4MB of free RAM)

Demo by request

Math Tool Chest

McGraw-Hill Education

A tool for teaching math concepts to elementary age students. Based on a C++ project, ported to Shockwave for internet delivery. Replicated most of original functionality. Designed to be linked to individual pages of McGraw-Hill Online Books, to supplement course material and provide a practice space. Many tools teaching math concepts, from simple counting to geometry and graphing functions.