Thingdom is an online interactive experience from the Science Museum
designed to help children learn about genetics. Players can create a new
life, nurture it and then mate with others.
http://www.thefwa.com/site/thingdom
12 comments:
Nicholas
said...
This was kind of a fun thing. It got a little annoying, so I stopped, but it was fun at first. I saw the message they were trying to convey, but it really was not much. All I got from it was that a baby's genes can be random from their parents, and that their is a dominant gene, what is likely to happen, and a recessive gene, if that happens, it kind of beats the odds. As for the game goes, all you were doing is trying to mate and reproduce. They had a lot of silly things you had to do to get the person who was mating to like your creature. I think that this overall was sort of 50-50.
I think that this game was really cool (and I got addicted), but it didn't really teach you anything. Some of the mating games were kind of hard and trying to do one over and over again got boring. The worlds were not that different. You just mated. It was kind of boring.
I think that it's a really interesting game. It's cool to be able to breed all of the different genes, especially because I was working on forensics a little bit. It has really helped me understand that just because parents share some of the same traits, it doesn't mean that the children will have them, too. But, agreeing with Nicholas and Emilynne, it does get a little bit tiresome after a while. I usually don't like games where you have to go back to the game so that you feed and nourish your animal/pet. I find it annoying. But, overall, it's a good game, and helps you learn about genes.
I agree with Emilynne. I thought this was a fun (and addicting) game, but it didn't really teach you anything. Also, in real life, you wouldn't have a choice of which baby you had out of three or four, but there would be one baby, and you couldn't choose another one.
This is a nice game. I wish it was a little more informative. If only there was something to do besides breeding. At least it could have another objective in the game. Don't get me wrong it's fun to see what characteristics your new thing will look like. It did give you an okay amount of information about genes. About how sometimes the baby can look different from their parents also what a gene ACTUALLY is. For a website that was pretty fun and very informative. The goals were kind of annoying. They are all really the same just "Breed a thing with blue skin" "Breed a thing with red skin" and so on.
I don't really understand the purpose of this game, but I thought it was fun. I didn't get why your thing couldn't do anything else but mate, but I thought the activities where you have to get the thing to like you. I agree with Faith when she said it could of had a better objective for this game.
I agree with Nick. I think that the message of the game was to teach you about how your genes are determined, etc. I didn't think this game was really fun but the Things were cute! I also think that they could've had a more interactive way of mating and learning about the genes. I think that overall, I would give this game a 60/100.
I agree with Nick. I don't think this was the best game because it really didn't teach us a lot. It was fun for the first round but got repetitive after a while. I learned about a baby's genes but that was about it.
I thought It was really repetitive in how the baby's were born. I agree with everybody who said it does not teach you anything. It just had no point. If it was a little shorter to do I think it would have made a amazing game.
I think this was a fun, but very interesting game. It actually taught me a lot. I learned all sorts of different things about genes, like that a babies genes can be random and very different from their parents. It did get annoying after a while, but it was educational and fun, just how I like it.
12 comments:
This was kind of a fun thing. It got a little annoying, so I stopped, but it was fun at first. I saw the message they were trying to convey, but it really was not much. All I got from it was that a baby's genes can be random from their parents, and that their is a dominant gene, what is likely to happen, and a recessive gene, if that happens, it kind of beats the odds. As for the game goes, all you were doing is trying to mate and reproduce. They had a lot of silly things you had to do to get the person who was mating to like your creature. I think that this overall was sort of 50-50.
I think that this game was really cool (and I got addicted), but it didn't really teach you anything. Some of the mating games were kind of hard and trying to do one over and over again got boring. The worlds were not that different. You just mated. It was kind of boring.
Sophia said...
I think that this game was fun (and addicting), but there was no real lesson. I thought that even though it was fun it was a waste of time.
I think that it's a really interesting game. It's cool to be able to breed all of the different genes, especially because I was working on forensics a little bit. It has really helped me understand that just because parents share some of the same traits, it doesn't mean that the children will have them, too. But, agreeing with Nicholas and Emilynne, it does get a little bit tiresome after a while. I usually don't like games where you have to go back to the game so that you feed and nourish your animal/pet. I find it annoying. But, overall, it's a good game, and helps you learn about genes.
I agree with Emilynne. I thought this was a fun (and addicting) game, but it didn't really teach you anything. Also, in real life, you wouldn't have a choice of which baby you had out of three or four, but there would be one baby, and you couldn't choose another one.
This is a nice game. I wish it was a little more informative. If only there was something to do besides breeding. At least it could have another objective in the game. Don't get me wrong it's fun to see what characteristics your new thing will look like. It did give you an okay amount of information about genes. About how sometimes the baby can look different from their parents also what a gene ACTUALLY is. For a website that was pretty fun and very informative. The goals were kind of annoying. They are all really the same just "Breed a thing with blue skin" "Breed a thing with red skin" and so on.
I don't really understand the purpose of this game, but I thought it was fun. I didn't get why your thing couldn't do anything else but mate, but I thought the activities where you have to get the thing to like you. I agree with Faith when she said it could of had a better objective for this game.
I agree with Nick. I think that the message of the game was to teach you about how your genes are determined, etc. I didn't think this game was really fun but the Things were cute! I also think that they could've had a more interactive way of mating and learning about the genes. I think that overall, I would give this game a 60/100.
I agree with Nick. I don't think this was the best game because it really didn't teach us a lot. It was fun for the first round but got repetitive after a while. I learned about a baby's genes but that was about it.
I thought that this was really confusing. It didn't tell you how to breed or do anything. It was just telling you what to do and not explaining it.
I thought It was really repetitive in how the baby's were born. I agree with everybody who said it does not teach you anything. It just had no point. If it was a little shorter to do I think it would have made a amazing game.
I think this was a fun, but very interesting game. It actually taught me a lot. I learned all sorts of different things about genes, like that a babies genes can be random and very different from their parents. It did get annoying after a while, but it was educational and fun, just how I like it.
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