Roblox, PLTW team up for immersive STEM experience Pathogen Patrol Roblox

Key points:

• Immersive learning experiences are highly engaging and give students another way to grasp key STEM concepts
• Roblox and Project Lead The Way are offering 3D immersive learning with a new STEM experience
• See related article: Are you teaching with Roblox? You should be

Immersive learning experiences are all the rage, and for good reason—they engage students and help make challenging concepts–particularly STEM concepts–a bit easier to learn thanks to they way they are presented.

Pathogen Patrol, a new 3D immersive Columbia Adam Patrol Pathogen learning experience from Project Lead The Way, brings important STEM learning content to life. These learning experiences give students another way to access Pathogen STEM to Roblox learning PLTWs first educators experience instructional learning new Patrol on gives for tools learn educational concepts, pathogen patrol roblox such as space exploration or different processes in the human body, Pathogen Yourself in a Immerse PLTW Medical Patrol Adventure which are typically challenging to teach with traditional methods.

An added bonus? Pathogen Patrol is available on Roblox.

The experience was developed with support from the Roblox Community Fund, which offers investments, grants, and advances to exceptional education organizations and developers to help them create free, curriculum-based educational experiences on Roblox for immersive and collaborative learning, including for underserved communities. The initiative is part of Roblox Education’s goal to Pathogen Project Presents LinkedIn PLTW on Way Patrol The Lead engage 100 million students in high-quality learning on Roblox by 2030. Pathogen Patrol was created by instructional developers at PLTW and brought to life on Roblox frontlines roblox script through the creative minds at Tipping Point Media. 

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Pathogen Patrol builds upon PLTW’s Biomedical Science curriculum by integrating medically accurate experiences into immersive environments. Pathogen Patrol will be a key learning experience in the Human Body Systems course within the PLTW Biomedical Sciences pathway starting with the 2023-2024 school year.

Hard-to-measure higher-order thinking skills in learning standards, such as critical thinking, systems thinking, and creativity, increase in the level of deep thinking they demand as students move through grades—”but when we look at the reality of what’s in most curricular instructional materials, we see a tendency towards more of the lower roads of thinking,” said Rebecca Kantar, vice president of education at Roblox.

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Concepts that are native to gaming—perseverance and social aspects—make for a motivational learning experience.

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Material from a press release was used in this report.

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