@learninggameslab.bsky.social
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.
image of prickly pear cactus with label educational media tools and title making prickly pear cactus juice and URL innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu
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-...
01.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Arranging a stall is just the first step! If you want more clients buying your products, you will have to attend safety concerns and improve the design of your stall.
Get started now at MarketSetGoGame.org
#farmersmarket #game #farming #business
Have you played Theme Park Kitchen?
Learn how to work in a restaurant, properly prep food, and handle food safety. Do you think you can complete all 15 levels?
Challenge yourself today!!
themeparkkitchen.org/play.html
#foodsafety #educationalgames #game #ThemePark
What do people look for at the farmers' market? Produce? You got it! Meat? As much as you want!
You will be able to explore 16 different stalls. The more you diversify the market, the more customers you serve.
Experiment with your own market strategy at MarketSetGoGame.org
Our newest game, Market, Set, Go! is live!
Market, Set, Go! is an educational game where you're a vendor at the local farmers market. Solve problems with food safety, and keep your customers happy and healthy.
Play now at MarketSetGoGame.org
#farmersmarket #game #business #farming
What We've Learned About Virtual Reality, Part 2!
www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/what-we...
As we prepare to release our first two Virtual Reality apps, some reflections on the taxonomy of VR interactions: www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/what-we...
06.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
image of prickly pear cactus with label educational media tools and title making prickly pear cactus juice and URL innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu
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-...
01.10.2025 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Person wearing VR headset while being photographed
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.
24.09.2025 22:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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!
23.09.2025 19:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Laptops on table with various games loaded
Laptops on table with various games loaded
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.
16.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Once the program-specific practices are put in place, the carbon credit company or third-party company steps in to measure how much carbon is being stored in the soil.
youtu.be/xb-kt3JPLSs?...
IMRE Blog Post titled "Our Award-Winning Products, 2025" with an illustration of a character picking crops from a field with a purple stamp center right that reads, "Relevant news: awards" with a white checkmark in the center, At the bottom of the image is a website "innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu"
The Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Life and Human Sciences, convenes annually to provide awards and feedback through the ACE Critique & Awards Program. This year has been a success for our products: www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/.../our-awar....
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September means harvest season for fall produce. Check out our free, interactive worker training resource, Produce TRAINer, which focuses on risk assessment and SOPs for small produce farms. Learn more in this blog post by @pnmartinez.bsky.social
www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/produce...
Title screen showing a woman holding the leadrope of a horse. Text reads: This digital publication has been peer-reviewed by external experts.
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
03.09.2025 22:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are pleased to announce that our interactive module Stay Safe Working With Horses has been featured among national 4-H resources on Clover: 4-h.org/clover/about/
Since Clover by 4-H requires a login, see the next post for a link to the free module.
Pamela N Martinez
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!
02.09.2025 18:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From the article abstract: "In an online survey, compared to those who viewed an Extension website providing information on genetic modification, consumers who played the game were more likely to believe they learned something and correctly answered a question regarding deceptive labeling."
14.08.2025 21:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A recent article in the Journal of Applied Economics Teaching Resources explores the impact of Unpeeled, an educational game created by our studio that teaches consumers about food marketing labels, such as non-GMO labels, to inform economic choices. www.aetrjournal.org/UserFiles/fi...
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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
Also available on web at nightofthelivingdebt.org !
28.07.2025 19:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
Video production is one of our specialties, and we've put a lot of thought into what information fits best with which format. Is your educational topic in need of a comprehensive overview or a quick social media reel? Learn more from our blog: www.innovativemediablog.nmsu.edu/post/video-c...
25.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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
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
16.07.2025 16:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Carbon credit markets give farmers and ranchers a chance to gain extra income by using sustainable practices that pull carbon out of the air and help to store it in the ground.
Learn more about how these programs work with this video from our Dept. of Extension Economics: youtu.be/xb-kt3JPLSs?...
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.
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
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'.
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.
itunes.apple.com/.../night-of....
#games #educationaltools #zombies #debt #finances
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
