Photon Frontier
A physics game show on modern waves: digital information, wave-particle duality, EM radiation and health, technologies that use waves, and materials designed at the atomic level.
Try it free with your class: the demo runs right in your browser for 5 questions or 5 minutes, whichever comes first. No sign-up needed.
Or get every game, including all future games, with the All-Access Teacher License for $150.
What students practice
Bits, bytes and how many values n bits can store, advantages and disadvantages of digital storage and transmission, sampling, noise, double-slit interference, diffraction, the photoelectric effect, photon energy and frequency, electron diffraction, ordering the EM spectrum, ionizing vs. non-ionizing radiation, UV and sunburn, microwave ovens, evaluating health claims, solar cells, fiber optics and total internal reflection, ultrasound, MRI, infrared imaging, lasers, GPS, noise cancellation, conductors and insulators, semiconductors, optical purity, magnetic domains, superconductors
Standards
OAS PH.PS4.2–5 · CH.PS2.6
NGSS: HS-PS4-2–5 · HS-PS2-6
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How it works
- Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
- Enter the players or teams, then press Start.
- Students take turns on one shared screen, so the whole class can play together on a projector or smartboard.
- Each purchase includes the game file and a one-page Quick Start guide.
