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Learning Games Lab, New Mexico State University
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As part of New Mexico's largest Land-Grant University, we serve the Cooperative Extension Service by producing educational media. We have created hundreds of animations, videos, games, apps, interactive modules, and web tools, including Math Snacks.
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For those in regions where cactus fruits are ripening, a reminder that there are several effective ways to make and store juice from prickly pears! www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/making-...
image of prickly pear cactus with label educational media tools and title making prickly pear cactus juice and URL innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu
October 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Photography *of* photography! We're getting ready to promote our new release Nutrition Counselor VR. It's hard to capture someone playing virtual reality and also the visuals of what's happening in the application! Excited for today's photo session with our university photographer.
Person wearing VR headset while being photographed
September 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Our free interactive nutrition tool, MyPlateMyDay.org, includes foods that are traditional to New Mexico and our region. Examples include combination foods like mutton stew, posole, chile rellenos, or Indian tacos, as well as calabacitas, nopalitos, frybread, tortillas and conchas!
Image of a bowl of mutton stew with text that reads, "This includes any typical stew: mutton stew, posole, corn stew, bone stew, green chile stew, caldo de res, menudo, chicken noodle soup, etc." On the side, portion sizes of vegetables (1), grains (1), protein from meat (0.5), and protein from beans (0.5) are given.
September 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Flashback to this photo from Play, Make, Learn last month in Wisconsin. It was great to see our game Cozy River Valley at the demo table with other finalists for the Gee Awards. Congratulations to Velvet 89, the winner in the small studios category.
Laptops on table with various games loaded Laptops on table with various games loaded
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Stay Safe With Horses helps build understanding of horse behavior to help users learn to handle horses safely and effectively. Topics include approaching a horse in a stall, catching and haltering, leading, and turning out a horse in a group. staysafewithhorses.org
Title screen showing a woman holding the leadrope of a horse. Text reads: This digital publication has been peer-reviewed by external experts.
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Earlier this summer, Learning Games Lab faculty member Dr. Pamela N. Martinez was awarded the prestigious USDA E. Kika de la Garza Fellowship, from the USDA, which brings together experts from Hispanic Serving Institutions to explore workforce development initiatives. Congratulations, Pamela!
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September 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Do you have what it takes to lead the squad? Use your team of heroes to research, educate, heal, and protect people. Keep the community from getting sicker!
outbreaksquad.com
#kids #kidgame #health #superhero
August 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This interactive module helps learners practice preservation practices for scientific study. Collections are important to science, and each preserved insect gives a snapshot of its population at the time it was collected.
insectcollectionlab.nmsu.edu/index.html
#insects #education
July 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A fun, engaging comic book, designed to help learners ages 8-18 understand how to ride All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) safely. Treadsylvania isn’t your traditional ATV training program, but instead, it is a fun, visually appealing adventure story.

treadsylvania.com
Comic-style poster with dramatic text introducing 'Treadsylvania'—a fictional land where evil has returned. Two serious-looking characters stand below the title. New Mexico State University’s Learning Games Lab logo is in the bottom right corner.
July 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Game Over Gopher is an exciting tower defense game built on a coordinate grid. Players must defend the large prized carrot by feeding waves of hungry gophers. This game helps middle schoolers understand how to graph data points on a coordinate grid. mathsnacks.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Learn more about how the community check in functions to create an atmosphere of cooperation and trust, in the Learning Games Lab youth sessions.

learninggameslabtoolkit.org
Two students at a table hold up a colorful 3D model of a DNA double helix inside a classroom at the NMSU Learning Games Lab, with one student seated and the other standing beside him.
July 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Survive the zombie outbreak by managing your finances. Do you have what it takes? Use a credit card, get college loans, buy a car, rent a house: It's your decision.

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#games #educationaltools #zombies #debt #finances
promotional post for the game Night of the Living Debt with an illustration of green zombie characters surrounding a female presenting character that holds a card with the words 'Zombank'.
July 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Math Snacks isn't a curriculum, but a series of activities you can use with the curriculum you are already using in grades 4-8. Math Snacks materials address critical content including number sense, ratio, proportion, measurement, scale factor, and pre-algebra.
mathsnacks.com
#nmsu #educationaltools
July 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Our flagship product, Math Snacks, is a suite of animations and mini-games designed to help students grasp concepts in middle school. Each snack presents a mathematical concept. Free for use in a classroom or on your own. Learn more at mathsnacks.com
#K12 #gamebasedlearning #mathed #edgames #gbl
characters from Math Snacks pointing at the logo from each direction
July 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Theme Park Kitchen supports food safety learning for middle school youth. This fun, multi-level game teaches safe food handling, including handwashing, cooking foods to the proper temperature and avoiding cross-contamination. Play it for free with the link in bio! #nmsu #gaming #education
July 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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What is the goal of youth engaging with screens in the Learning Games Lab? To use digital games and tools mindfully, purposefully and effectively.
For more about how we accomplish this together, read more in the Learning Games Lab Toolkit: learninggameslabtoolkit.org
youth playing a game on iPad
June 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Farmers and scientists collect and test water samples from water sources including ponds, streams, rivers and canals, or from water treatment plants, to make sure they are safe for use.
Learn how to sample water for testing here: conserve.nmsu.edu

#educationaltools #instructive #safetyfirst
Promotional graphic for interactive labs on water testing and sampling, featuring molecule illustrations and logos for CONSERVE and NMSU Learning Games Lab.
June 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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This month we hosted two week-long Youth Summer Sessions as well as a half-day session of game testing. Thank you to our student consultants for signing up and giving us valuable evaluations of games, participating in our design activities, and working hard on their own game pitches. #LGLThinkTanks
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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There is no 5-second rule. Designed for tweens to teens, our "Don't Be Gross" series of animated videos raise awareness about actions we take each day that may spread germs and about positive steps we can take to prevent illness. DontBeGross.org
army of personified germs invades
June 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Natasha Parks, UF/IFAS Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent enjoys using Night of the Living Debt as a teaching tool in her financial literacy classes. To learn more and play the game online visit nightofthelivingdebt.org
#gamer #learning #finance
June 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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We asked our developers "What's something that's common knowledge in your field that outsiders may not know?" and here is what they had to say!
#nmsu #gamedevelopers
June 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Last week concluded our week-long Summer Sessions of 2025! Thank you to our student consultants for signing up and giving us valuable evaluations of games, participating in our design activities, and game pitches. #NMSU #education #youthprograms
A collage of students visiting different rooms in a creative workspace. At the top, a group observes a computer screen filled with colorful game art and character figures. Other panels show students interacting with staff, exploring sound booths, and engaging in group discussions. The top image shows five teens smiling and seated outdoors in front of a university building. Below are scenes of collaborative activities: students presenting at whiteboards, working on laptops, and brainstorming ideas in a classroom. Students give presentations using large digital screens in a dimly lit classroom. The largest image shows an audience watching a presenter at the front of the room, while smaller panels depict students explaining project ideas using slides.
June 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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✨Cozy River Valley✨is based on agricultural practices in arid irrigated systems, with gameplay covering 60 years of farming where you make choices about crops, water, community and environment. 🌱 cozyrivervalley.nmsu.edu 🌱 #nmsu #stemeducation #educationalgames
June 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The first week of Session 1 came to an end today! Thank you to those who participated and for the parents that came to support. #stemeducation #youthprogram #nmsu
June 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Agrinautica won a Silver in the 2019 Serious Play Awards! Agrinautica supports pre-algebra learning by building expressions and growing beautiful plants, minerals, and fungi in new planetary environments. Visit: mathsnacks.org
#gbl #gamebasedlearning #LearningGamesLab #mathed #STEMed #middleschool
Colorful cartoon-style game title screen for "AGRINAUTICA" with vibrant alien plants and a large blue play button in the center. The background features a distant planet landscape. Text above reads “for teachers” and “credits,” and below it says, “WHAT WILL YOUR PLANET LOOK LIKE?” Slide showing gameplay images and instructions. Top left text: 'Terraform planets with plants, animals, fungi, and minerals—each a unique math expression.' Bottom right text: 'Students create new plant species while testing math skills.' A futuristic blue and purple interface with the text “DESIGNED FOR GRADES 4–8” at the top. The screen provides teacher instructions directing users to mathsnacks.com for resources to implement Math Snacks in the classroom. The “Math Snacks” logo in bold orange letters on a blue and purple gradient background. Below it reads: “FREE TO PLAY MATHSNACKS.ORG” with smaller text explaining that Math Snacks materials cover number sense, ratios, proportion, measurement, scale factor, and pre-algebra.
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM