This is a web site that has many educational games. The games cover all sorts of topics.

It is the Nobel Prize organizations web site.

http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/

One of the games on this site is called the diabetes dog game. The below link will take you directly to the dog game. You need to setup a user account (all free – it’s an online game). You just make up a caretaker name and a dog name. If the names are not in the database you’ll go right in to game. If one of the names are already taken you just need to pick another name.

Now that you’re in … you’ll be given instructions on the care of a dog with diabetes. Once you start the game, you need to care for the dog properly, in order to keep it. If you haven’t read the instructions close enough and the dog has a reaction, then the dog is taken away from you (i.e. deleted from the database)! You can always go in and come up with a new dog and try again.

I found this game very interesting. And I learned a lot about how to care for a dog with diabetes. This is a good learning tool. I believe there must be many types of games already created like this game. Searching for games and simulations to actually put to use in a class room setting, could easily become overwhelming for an individual teacher. This seems like something a school district would really need to completely support.

http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/insulin/index.html