For a stiff-lipped Founder of the United States, George Washington led an awfully exciting life. Soldier, farmer, statesman...he was even famous for his love of dancing. On this site, discover the real Washington at home and at war. Explore a 3D Mount Vernon in search of artifacts that reveal the many facets of the man. Meet the people who lived and worked on his estate. Play the harpsichord so he can dance with his beloved Martha. And serve as gun captain at Washington's greatest moment of military achievement, the siege of Yorktown. Washington's World has it all—everything, that is, except for a cherry tree.

eduweb's role: Game design, visual design, 3D modeling and animation, production.

"Eduweb was able to help us answer the question of how to make George Washington a real person and not just the face on the quarter. By creating games that really immerse the player in Washington's life at Mount Vernon, at Yorktown, and even on the dance floor, children will learn that Washington lived an exciting life. And the experience of working with eduweb was a pleasure from day one."

Crystal McCliggott
Mount Vernon Ladies Association

The Indian River Lagoon, along the east coast of Florida, is a remarkable ecological system, rich in plant and animal life. It also offers many ways to explore and enjoy nature. Use this Web site to learn about the lagoon, find great family outings and outdoor mysteries, and then come back and share your experiences with others.

eduweb's role: Information and interactivity design, visual design, illustration and production.

The Bell Museum was a pioneer of hands-on natural history exhibits. This online interactive brings the wonders of the museum's Touch and See room to the Web. Discover mysterious natural objects (a new one each time you visit!), identify skulls, and figure out what habitats turtles call home.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, photography, videography, and production.

Ever wish you could get behind the glass of a diorama? Explore a Bell Museum diorama to find some surprising connections, learn how and why dioramas were made, and design your own habitat diorama.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration and production.

Betwixt Folly and Fate is an immersive 3-D role playing game that places players in 1774 Williamsburg as one of four characters:

• Chloe, an enslaved house servant
• Henry, a free black carpenter
• Mary, a midwife's assistant
• George, a young gentleman

In each role, players face the challenges of daily life in early America while learning about the social classes and customs of the time. For example, Henry, a free black carpenter, must find enough work as a journeyman to pay his mother's rent. As Henry seeks carpentry work and other tasks that come his way, the player learns about facets of ordinary eighteenth-century life as well as the opportunities and constraints facing a free black tradesman in 1774.

As players pursue their characters' goals, they explore a large portion of eighteenth-century Williamsburg, Virginia, roaming the streets and meeting people in shops, taverns, the Courthouse, and private homes. The town is populated with dozens of characters, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. Players may also bargain for goods with shopkeepers and try their hand at several colonial games.

eduweb's role: Concept development, game design, scriptwriting, graphic design, 3D modeling and animation, programming, and production.

Betwixt Folly and Fate game is one component of Colonial Williamsburg's A Day in the Life program, which includes an eight-episode DVD series and teacher materials. The Web site has more information, a preview video, downloadable demo, and ordering information.

Danger lurks at every meal. Ordinary foods coat teeth with sugar, attracting bacteria and acids that cause tooth decay.

But the Dental Defenders are on the job! The Defenders patrol the mouths of children everywhere, protecting their teeth from everyday meals and snacks. Join the team and begin your patrol!

eduweb's role: Concept design, interactivity design, writing, graphic design, 3D modeling and animation, and production.

Wolves are naturally compelling animals. The subject of folklore and legend around the world, wolves inspire excitement, fear and wonder, but never complacency. WolfQuest merges the natural mystery and charisma of wolves with the immersive, compelling drama and action of video games to create a new model for conservation education. A free downloadable game funded by the National Science Foundation, WolfQuest teaches wolf behavior and ecology through exciting 3D gameplay and intense social interactions both in the game and through the WolfQuest website.

WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountain Deluxe expands upon the initial episode of the game released last December. Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Playing alone or with friends in online multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and successfully encounter other wolves in your search for a mate. The Deluxe edition includes grizzly bears that steal your carcasses, multiplayer pack rallies, and over 200 other enhancements and bug fixes. In addition, when you find a mate, it now helps you hunt and harass grizzlies.

The WolfQuest experience goes beyond the game with an active, safe, on-line community where kids discuss the game with other players, chat with wolf biologists, and share artwork and stories about wolves. This forum is actively managed by educators and wolf biologists who connect the WolfQuest gameplaying experience with the real world of wolf conservation and provide opportunities for interested players to engage with real wolf issues.

eduweb's role: Initial conceptualization, grantwriting, game design and development, 3D modeling and animation, game programming, Web production, and user testing.

Explore the history of commercial air travel in this online companion to NASM's new exhibit. Navigate your way along an early airmail route. Make a newsreel about the first around-the-world flight by scheduled airlines. See if you would have qualified to be a stewardess in the 1950s. And much more!

Eduweb collaborated with museum staff to adapt gallery interactives for the Web, developing engaging and meaningful ways to explore the stories, artifacts, and experiences of air travel.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, research and writing, graphic design, illustration, and production.

This series of stories for elementary and high school students bring Chicago's history alive through experiences of fictional but typical kids living in Chicago over the last century. A companion to each story is an interactive map that shows high-resolution photographs of the locations described in the story, both at the time of the story's setting and the present. Using Yahoo! Maps within the activity, users can explore the story's neighborhood and see where it is in relation to their own home or school. Artifacts from the collections of the Chicago History Museum connect the objects of everyday life to the people who might have used them.

eduweb's role: Concept development, graphic design, interface design, programming, and production for the map interactive portion of the site.

Zam's Quest is a unique standards-based curriculum for 5th and 6th grade students that engages, empowers and activates kids to learn about nature and take action to address local conservation issues. In four sequential units, Zam's Quest moves kids along a learning continuum. Using the time-tested, role play technique students are able to: understand different points of view in a conservation issue, successfully analyze an issue and discuss solutions, understand the complexity of today's problems, and personally take action on a local conservation dilemma.

The Zam's Quest Web site supports and extends the curriculum by offering:

• Photos and video clips of the people and animals from each unit.
• A Comic Book Maker that lets kids create and share their own stories and solutions for conservation issues.
• Experts' blogs from the field.
• Spotlights on local conservation issues for regions around the country.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, interactivity design, visual design, animation, programming, and production.

Learning Through Art encourages teachers and teaching artists to design art projects that support student learning across the curriculum. Recent research shows that this combination of activities helps students build important critical-thinking, art, and literacy skills.

This website provides two sets of tools for the classroom. The first explores how to facilitate class discussions around works of art, an approach we call "Inquiry with Art." The second is a database of selected Learning Through Art projects, or "Art Explorations," with links to additional related resources. Used individually or together, these resources can support teachers in creating an environment in which students are challenged to think, learn, and communicate.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, visual design, programming, and production.

The Minnesota Zoo's Teacher Resource Center offers many exciting resources to help teachers plan their next visit to the Minnesota Zoo, including:

• Field trip planning materials
• Orientation video for teachers, chaperones, and students
• Pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit activities and worksheets
• Multimedia resources for browsing and downloading for student powerpoints and movies

eduweb's role: Information architecture, video scriptwriting, production and editing, database programming, and Web production.

Ready to pop behind-the-scenes of the television you watch, magazines you read, music you listen to and websites you visit? Our "studios" let you take the reins. Create. Comment. Control. Explore your media, your way!

This Web site for 'tween-age girls promotes media literacy and gives girls a chance to create music, edit a TV show, publish a magazine and reflect on the role of digital media in their lives.

• Create your own pop star and put her concert online for the world to enjoy!
• Edit your own reality show, spinning the story the way you want!
• Make your own celebrity magazine featuring you and your favorite actors and singers!
• Test your multi-tasking abilities and find out how well you can do many things at the same time!

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

At the height of World War II, the U.S. Navy captured a German U-boat submarine prowling off the waters of Africa. The American efforts to capture the U-505, and the German struggle to prevail instead, illuminate the human experience of duty, courage, and survival during wartime. This site features two games and an interactive timeline about that fateful day:

• Find the U-505: As an American sailor, use cutting-edge (for 1944) technologies to track down the U-boat.
• Command the U-505: As skipper of the U-505, use your wits to attack the Americans and evade capture.
• Capture! An interactive timeline featuring oral histories by the men who where there.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.

The history of New York State agriculture is the story of our collective past. Harvest of History makes this story come alive. Explore an 1845 agricultural village to find out where your food comes from, how and where it grows, and compare life in 1845 with our modern world. Then turn what you've learned into a video with the online videomaker. The site also features hundreds of primary sources about agricultural and rural history, and an interdisciplinary fourth-grade curriculum for.

eduweb's role: Concept development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, video production, programming, and site production.

Architect Studio 3D offers a unique opportunity to explore architecture and the design process by designing a house online—and then touring it in 3D. With Frank Lloyd Wright as your guide, you first review the needs of your client and the particulars of the building location. Then start designing, taking your ideas from floor plan to final 3D model. Share your house design with the world in the online gallery, and discover Wright's own story and his innovative buildings.

eduweb's role: Concept development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, programming, and production.

The secret of a healthy smile is simple: taking good care of your teeth. And what's the best way to find out how to do that? Let Mouthie take you into the MouthPower laboratory. Experiment to find the healthiest choices about food, tobacco, and cleaning habits. Explore the history of dentistry and the story of your own teeth! Then create your own poster about healthy mouth habits. (Children age 9-12)

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, scriptwriting, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.

eduweb collaborated with Allentown museum staff on this multi-faceted Web site that explores Renaissance visual arts and innovations and their role in the making of the modern world. Applying research into learning styles and user engagement, we developed a suite of online activities and resources for middle school students and teachers: Explore a timeline of Renaissance art and innovation, commission an artwork as a patron of the arts, design your own innovation, and much more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance life and culture resemble our own.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.

What are pests? Think of them as animals out of place. Out in nature, they're just doing their jobs. But when they move into our homes and yards, that's when we call them pests.

Collaborating with the NPMA and its public relations agency, FCF Schmidt, eduweb developed a diverse array of offerings to meet many user needs and interests: amazing facts, in-depth information, interactive games, and curricular lesson plans that get you up close and personal with these bizarre yet all-too-familiar critters. You'll never look at an ant or cockroach in the same way again.

Designed primarily for elementary school-age kids and schoolteachers, this site has something for everyone. Who can resist sending a PestCard featuring a talking termite?

eduweb's role: Concept development, information architecture, scriptwriting, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and usability testing.

Travel back in time to experience the past through artifacts from the Montana Historical Society's collections. We'll tell you about their past, but we won't tell you what to think about them Ñ that's your story to tell us!

eduweb collaborated with the staff of Montana's Museum to give Web visitors an opportunity to learn about and tell their own stories about historical artifacts. In order to add important context to selected artifacts in the museum's collection, we created an activity that casts users as visitors to real families who lived across Montana. In choosing objects to take home as souvenirs from a summer vacation visit to their host family, users learn about the objects and add their own interpretation and reaction to them. Material culture lives and breathes as these stories are shared with the wider online audience. The site is draws content directly from the museum's collection management database, allowing staff to add objects to the activity on a continuing basis.

eduweb's role: Concept and activity development, visual design, database integration, ASP programming, production.

Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium.

• Help Squish the Fish find lunch (a role-play story for grades K-2)
• Build a fish and try to survive on the reef (a simulation for grades 3-6)
• Make a movie about life on a coral reef (creative play for grades 4-6)
• Solve a mystery in the Philippines (a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
• Solve a mystery in the Philippines (a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
• Research seahorse conservation (an interactive reference for grades 9-12)

Plus K-12 lesson plans, fact sheets about plants, animals and culture, and more! Dive into the SEA today!

eduweb's role: Information architecture, visual design, programming, and production for the entire SEA site. Also concept and content development, illustration, animation, programming and production for the interactive modules.

The IMF wanted to present some of the information in its history and evolution of money exhibit online. This interactive game goes beyond coin collecting to take the player on a fantastical time machine ride through different times and places. In trying to get home, the player learns what forms of exchange have been used as money throughout human history.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, programming, and production.

The technicalities of international trade may be a snooze for middle school students, but a fast-paced game that challenges the player to buy low and sell high is just the ticket. We took an onsite activity and programmed a trading model that matches the player with computerized traders from around the world. Prices respond to the overall health of the global economy, and players can see how commodity prices change over time.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Join Lewis & Clark and head west in this interactive role-playing game combined with creative play. As you journey westward, you can stop along the way and explore, collecting plants and animals and trading with Indians for cultural objects. What you collect and send back to Thomas Jefferson will shape his view (and by extension the American view) of these new lands. (This is a demo version of this game, which is part of Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip program.)

With Jefferson's West, we sought to combine engaging gameplay with personal storytelling in an adventure about the Lewis & Clark expedition. The hybrid role play/creative play approach offers various types and degrees of interactivity to allow a satisfying experience for users with differing levels of engagement.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Artists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Learn about these concepts in a variety of ways. Explore the Toolkit with animations and interactive modules. See Artists in Action as they create compositions using the visual elements and principles. Delve into the heavily illustrated Encyclopedia to learn more about the elements and principles.

eduweb's role: Concept development, site organization and visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Sanford may be better known for its markers than its art supplies, but the ArtEdventures site has made it well known and greatly valued among art teachers around the world. Since 1998, we have worked with Sanford to develop and expand the site to become a popular and award-winning resource.

Features include:

• K-12 classroom and art-intensive lessons
• Extensive glossary and artist biographies
• Art games such as Leonardo's Workshop, From Cave Art to Your Art, The Art of Crime Detection, and Go West, Young Artist.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, programming, and production for the entire ArtEdventures site, including lesson plans and classroom activities, reference content, and art games.

JerseyHistory offers a peek at its past, present and upcoming exhibitions, a publication archive, links to valuable outside resources, immediate access to its extensive archives and finding aids, a destination listing for Newark arts, culture, and entertainment, a monthly calendar of events, news updates, as well as selected images from the museum and library collections. Teachers and students can also sample online history lessons, downloadable curriculum materials, an archive of Jersey Journeys quarterly newspaper for students, and a listing of customized educational programs for learners of all ages.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, interface design, graphic design, programming, and production for both public Web site and private content management system for museum staff.

How could slavery have survived so long in American history? Our challenge with this site was to put American slavery into global context, and to explore the ways that it permeated American social and economic institutions. The result: a hybrid role play/interactive reference site that challenges the student to stop a slave auction, and then lets them explore the perspectives of the many people who had a stake in the institution.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, programming, and production.

The DuPage Children's Museum was taking their popular in-school design program to the Web—but how? Technical challenges abounded, from school-age computers to district firewalls. But after extensive development and formative testing, we had an innovative and award-winning site. At school or home, kids tackle design challenges with the help of a real engineer, who consults with each kid live, via an interactive whiteboard and chat room. Empowering for kids (and engineers), this program is available at no cost for schools and homeschoolers.

eduweb's role: Site organization and interface design, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

eduweb and NMWA staff were eager to tackle another project after our first collaboration, Art Tales, won the "Best of the Web: Educational Use" award at Museums & the Web 2001. The topic now was art elements and principles—a fundamental of art education. Museum staff wanted to focus on Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists and a mainstay of the museum's collection. We developed an activity which, like Art Tales, is open-ended and involves creativity and personal meaning-making. A Brush with Wildlife complements Art Tales by focusing on visual rather than language creativity. Users learn how to use art principles like balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful art composition. They can create their own composition and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, animation, programming, and production.

With this project, we wanted to offer users an opportunity for thoughtful creativity using artworks from the museum's wonderful collection to tell a story. To foster motivation and an imaginative approach among users, we added a role play element—users choose to be a frontier explorer, field guide writer, or museum curator and then work with artworks to create something meaningful and original.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, programming, and production.

Brookfield Zoo wanted an online game to complement their new Ituri Forest exhibit, focusing on the many "ways of knowing" the forest that stem from cultural perspectives and knowledge. We collaborated with Education staff on the story and script, creating a walk through the rainforest with four local children as your guide. Through them, users learn about the forest through their eyes. We then created full screen illustrations and animations for a rich storybook look.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

Rocks that float. Golden cubes. What's going on here? Join Rex the Dino Detective and solve these mysteries about rocks, fossils and minerals. Includes an interactive animated exploration of a slab of fossilized sea floor.

This interactive virtual reality tour takes visitors aboard the research vessel on Lake Superior and lets them explore the ships labs, bridge and even the engine room.

eduweb's role: Concept development, visual design, QTVR photography, programming, and production.

Working with Bell LIVE!, the Bell Museum's distance learning program, eduweb developed online activities and resources about prairie ecology and restoration. In Build-A-Prairie, players choose flora and fauna for a prairie restoration project. Correct choices are rewarded with engaging animations and, ultimately, the chance to set a controlled burn.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

eduweb developed this Web site for the Arizona Science Center in collaboration with Arizona's power utility. The site features in-depth content about solar energy andelectricity, plus an atom-scale exploration of a solar cell. Future plans include live data from solar power stations throughout Arizona.

eduweb's role: Content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

NASA and the Russian space agency have spent over forty years solving the problems of living in space. Can you match wits with their engineers and design a human habitat as good as the new International Space Station?

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

This online complement to a traveling exhibition mixes art, science, and technology for a multi-faceted exploration of dinosaurs, biology, and kinetic sculpture.

eduweb's role: Content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

This lab connects NASA's Stardust comet-exploration mission with the International Space Station project. Students explore the engineering choices that went into Stardust, then design a new spacecraft to protect the Space Station from orbital space junk.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, programming, and production.

This set of interactive modules brings several middle school lesson plans to the Web, giving students some hands-on exploration of key topics in astronomy and the search for E.T.I.

In our first collaboration with Bell LIVE!, eduweb developed this interactive quiz about watershed ecology and conservation.

eduweb's role: Visual design, illustration, animation, QTVR photography, programming, and production.

Frank Gehry's amazing architectural designs have become world famous. This site explores a key building in his portfolio—the Weisman Art Museum. Explore the building inside and out. Learn about the design process and other remarkable buildings designed by Gehry.

Pintura was one of our first projects but remains very popular for its film noir approach to art history. Step into Pintura's shoes and try to solve the Case of Grandpa's Painting.

What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get out? This site developed in-house during eduweb's early days explores a painting from the inside out.

eduweb founder David Schaller developed this site based on his M.A. thesis research in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Explore the cultural and natural geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.