A Fantastic Journey: Creating an Immersive 3D CAVE Experience for Middle School Science

• In Event: ELT - Mobil Technology and 3D CAVE Experience

Short Description

Following the work of Ritz & Buss (in-press) outlining a framework for designing immersive 3D CAVE learning experiences, a set of three interactive simulations was developed to help students more deeply understand the scientific concept of density by virtually shrinking them to the molecular scale. The instructional design process, involving content research, virtual model refinement, and consideration of pedagogical strategies, computational needs and constraints, and user experience, will be presented.

Authors

• Alan Buss, University of Wyoming

• Leah Ritz, The Science Zone

• Kyle Summerfield, University of Wyoming