I hope, in the wake of the recent Japanese Nuclear Reactor crisis, that I don't upset anybody by including this Nuclear Power Plant Simulator.

The Nuclear Power Plant Simulator raises awareness about how nuclear energy is harnessed to generate electricity and what it takes to control a nuclear plant.

The game places users inside the control room of a small commercial nuclear power plant. The object to produce as much electricity as possible without causing a core meltdown. To do so...

Eight online games to teach users...

• chemical elements;
• periodic table, and more.

There is as big a debate about whether or not playing games enhances learning as there is about if science learners should have to memorize the periodic table.

Whether you think it's right or wrong, in either case, learners do play games and there are still lots of learning providers that make the latter a curriculum requirement. If that is the case in your learning provider, the Sheppard Software per...