Photon Frontier

Photon Frontier is a multiplayer science game for Physics. 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.

Skills: 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.

New problems every game, with Easy, Medium and Hard levels. Every miss shows a short explanation.

Standards (Oklahoma OAS first, then national):

OAS PH.PS4.2–5 · CH.PS2.6

NGSS: HS-PS4-2–5 · HS-PS2-6

What you get: one HTML game file that runs in any browser (Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, smartboards) plus a one-page Quick Start PDF. 1–6 players or teams, no logins, no installs.

Single-teacher license. Included in the Fletcher Math All-Access bundle.