Games and Interactives

Market Set Go!

In the educational game Market, Set, Go, you're a vendor at the Farmers' Market. Solve problems with food safety, and keep your customers happy and healthy.

Cozy River Valley

Manage your farm while also meeting the water needs of the community and the environment. Players must make surface water and groundwater use decisions, work with neighbors to maintain and replenish the aquifer, and provide water to wetlands and downstream users.

Night of the Living Debt

Survive the zombie outbreak by managing your finances. Do you have what it takes? Get college loans, buy a car, buy a house: It's your decision. In Night of the Living Debt, manage your finances or be eaten alive by bad credit.

iTIPS Food Safety

Workers learn about common food safety issues that arise in small production facilities. This interactive web module provides robust access to training tools to help improve food safety practices and regulatory compliance.

Produce TRAINer

A food safety training toolkit for produce farm workers, with lessons and scenarios to practice risk assessment on the farm. Learn about how decision making and Standard Operating Procedures help keep you and the produce you work with safe.

Dr. Eugene's Biotech Lab

In this educational game, middle school students explore the ways gene editing and bioengineering contribute to human health, plant and animal agriculture and environmental protection. Players choose among nine different scenarios with mini-games about gene editing.

Theme Park Kitchen

The game teaches food safety in engaging ways and helps youth internalize safe practices around cooking and food handling. Theme Park Kitchen is great to play in the classroom, at home, or as part of 4-H or Extension programs.

Farm Sanitizing

Minimize contamination from pathogenic microorganisms on tools and equipment to reduce cross-contamination and foodborne illnesses.

MyPlateMyDay

Learn how your favorite foods fit into a MyPlate guide, learn how to split favorite combination foods into the MyPlate categories, and get help finding easy ways to eat more of what you need.

Virtual Insect Collection Lab

This interactive module helps learners practice pinning, pointing, and spreading insects properly, to preserve them for scientific study. Collections are important to science, and each insect gives a snapshot of its population at the time it was collected.

Agrinautica

Terraform planets by adding plants, animals, fungi and minerals, each representing a mathematical expression. This game is designed for 4th and 5th graders learning mathematical expression-building and order of operations.

Creature Caverns

Creature Caverns is designed for middle schoolers learning about plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. Come and explore the fundamentals of graphing on the coordinate plane. There are interesting creatures lurking in the dark!

Curse Reverse

Curse Reverse helps pre-algebra learners understand linear expressions and that variables can represent quantities. To "reverse the curse," create paths by manipulating blocks with defined and variable values. 

Gate

Restore the balance of nature by exploring place value. Gate supports students in lowering intimidation about large numbers and decimals, understanding place value, and realizing that the mathematical concepts that apply to the "easy" integers apply to every order of magnitude. Part of the Math Snacks suite.

Game Over Gopher

Defend the carrot from gophers using the coordinate grid! This game helps students learn coordinate pairs, navigate the 4 quadrants, discern negative coordinates from positive coordinates, and establish the fundamentals of plotting functions on a grid. 

Math Snacks

Math Snacks are short animations and mini-games. Each snack presents mathematical concepts addressed in grades 6, 7, and 8. Ideal for use in a classroom. The accompanying print materials can assist learners in applying their conceptual understanding to math problems.

Monster School Bus

Make sure not to divide up groups: monsters don't like that! Monster School Bus supports students in understanding numbers, representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number system, and visualizing numbers as sets and quantities through problem solving. Part of the Math Snacks suite.

Pearl Diver

Dive for pearls in a beautiful seascape! Pearl Diver addresses number and operations standards, such as number line sense, whole numbers, decimals, mixed numbers and fractions. Part of the Math Snacks suite.

Ratio Rumble

Battle to build your own potions! Ratio Rumble addresses equivalent ratios and guides students in providing visual representations of ratios and how ratios relate to fractions and decimals. Part of the Math Snacks suite.

Outbreak Squad

Do you have what it takes to lead the squad? Use your team of heroes to research, educate, heal, and protect people. Keep the community from getting sicker!

Water Sampling

Water for irrigation comes from ponds, rivers, and canals, or water treatment plants. Farmers and scientists test samples from these sources to ensure they are safe.

Science of Agriculture

This project aids undergraduates' knowledge of Animal Science, Soil, and Environmental Science. The suite includes animations, interactives, and live-action videos that teach mathematical, chemical, and soil concepts. 

Nitrogen & Agriculture

This interactive educational tool explores the importance of nitrogen for plant, animal and soil health. Build amino acid and fertilizer molecules and calculate molecular weight in relation to nitrogen content.

Night of the Living Debt

Survive the zombie outbreak by managing your finances. Do you have what it takes? Use a credit card, get college loans, buy a car, rent a house: It's your decision. Check your credit score, and don’t fall prey to zombies!

Virtual Labs

Interactive modules train high school and college students in laboratory skills and concepts relevant to food science, including using a microscope, testing for aflatoxin, culturing bacteria, measuring pH, and using disposable lab equipment.

Irrigation Training Modules

Explore four treatment methods for cleaning irrigation water and practice testing chlorinated systems so you can implement the appropriate treatment to your situation while validating, verifying, and monitoring your process. 

Potluck Panic

You are tasked with gathering knowledge and ensuring food gets assembled with food safety in mind, from factory to potluck.

Stay Safe with Horses

This interactive module builds users' understanding of horse behavior to help them learn to handle horses safely and effectively. Topics include approaching a horse in a stall, catching and haltering, leading, and turning out a horse in a group.

Nutritious Nitrogen

Plants and animals need nitrogen. Learn how to add the right amount of nitrogen to support production without polluting the environment.

Eat-&-Move-O-Matic

Learn about the foods you eat and how they help fuel your body for your favorite activities. Get interesting tips on how small changes can make big differences!

Chinese Food Safety

Chinese is the third most commonly spoken language in U.S. foodservice operations. In the U.S., many food safety educators only speak English so it can be difficult to effectively train Chinese speaking foodservice workers. This website was designed to help food safety educators reach this important group. Available in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Ninja Kitchen

You're a ninja - and a short order cook. Prepare and serve food safely before your customers walk away. Sophisticated gameplay reveals principles of food safety. Redesigned to Theme Park Kitchen .

Safe Preparation of Beef Jerky

Beef jerky is prepared via a variety of methods. This interactive allows users to specify the method they use and shows what key steps are necessary for a safe product in each case.

Treadsylvania

Towns and farms have all fallen victim to the minions of evil. Only one stronghold remains: Tread-Sylvania. Safely ride your ATV through mysterious locations and defeat the horrible monsters to free the town from their evil grasp!

Food Detectives Fight BAC

This site for kids ages 8-12 includes songs, activities, and arcade-style games. Through playing, youth understand the importance of the Fight BAC food safety program: wash hands and utensils, chill leftovers properly, cook food to the proper temperature, and separate cooked food from raw meat and juices.

Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard

Science Pirates uses games, songs, and scientific experiments to give youth a better understanding of the "whys" behind good food safety practices based on national science standards. The entire adventure culminates in the player helping the desperate crew solve and 'break' the "The Curse of Brownbeard."

Nutrition Decision

This series of games helped middle school students make better choices when selecting food by better understanding nutritional labels and serving sizes. It also focused on the importance of exercise and physical activity.

Choices In A Pack: Tobacco Education for Teenagers

Presented with teens in mind (popularity, looks, and peer group interests), this curriculum offered students decision-making situations regarding cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.

Crazy About Corn

This collection of games, songs, videos and activities introduced children to the history and cultural importance of corn. Educational resource books supplemented classroom learning, and the "Hot Buttered Hits and Songbook" allowed children to sing along.

Exergames Unlocked

Encourage physical activity! Find the most effective exergames, strategies, and recommendations for different audiences and different locations.