Innovative Media Research and Extension's Products Portfolio

Foods and Moves

These apps support healthy movement and eating by guiding children in fun adventures that build strength, physical development and expand their food-tasting vocabulary.

CONSERVE Coloring Book

This printable coloring book was created as part of outreach efforts for the CONSERVE (COordinating Nontraditional Sustainable watER Use in Variable climatEs) project.

Innoventure Jr. ™

Toung children have skills and abilities that provide value to others and may lead them to create their own jobs. This series explores exchanging money for products and services, brainstorming to get ideas, and setting goals for entrepreneurship.

Because I Care, I Wash My Hands

Suited for child care centers, this curriculum is full of songs, activities, and experiments to help young children understand why and how handwashing keeps friends and family healthy. It includes the viral video “Because I Care Lullaby,” which has been viewed 97 million times.

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.

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.

Agrinautica

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

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.

Monster School Bus

Monster School Bus supports students in understanding numbers, representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and visualizing numbers as sets and quantities through problem solving. Part of the Math Snacks suite.

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.

Ratio Rumble

The battle is on in this game where you build your own potions! Ratio Rumble addresses equivalent ratios and guides students in providing visual representations of ratios and understanding how ratios relate to fractions and decimals. 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.

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.

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!

Kid Eats

Kid Eats provides educational videos, healthy recipes, and a fun virtual kitchen experience on the iPad, suitable for youth in grades 3-6, including videos of each recipe. The iPad app is available free at the iTunes Store.

Don't Be Gross

This in-school project raises awareness among teens about food safety actions they take each day that are unsafe and about positive steps they can take to prevent illness.

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.

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!

PreK-12 Audience

Young Children