Using commercial-off-the-shelf video games to facilitate habits of mind: Spore™ in the seventh grade life science classroom

Design and Implementation of Educational Games: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 262-277

  Evans, Michael A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-781-7.ch018     Document Type: Chapter

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