Kids are free to skip around within chapters, but they must collect a certain number of goo balls within each chapter to unlock the next. Through four chapters and an epilogue, kids must battle gravity and motion to sculpt mostly triangle-based shapes to transport goo balls toward a goal. Immersed in a dark world of wobbling sculptures, a nefarious corporation, and balloon-popping windmills, kids must pull and stretch goo balls to span gaps, reach through passageways, and stabilize floating masses, ultimately transferring as many goo balls as possible to an outlet pipe and the World of Goo Corporation. World of Goo offers hybrid physics-and-building puzzles good for enticing reluctant learners and challenging advanced puzzlers with exciting problem-solving practice. Teachers may want to project from a tablet for whole group lessons but small groups might be able to share on a smaller device. Three player profiles can be saved for each copy on a particular device. A wry narrative woven throughout gameplay might be used to teach about satire. Teachers can also use World of Goo as a virtual testing ground for practice in trial and error, scenario analysis, and strategy. Since gravitational properties in the game are more like those on the moon than Earth, teachers might be able to use the app as an introduction to an exercise in the calculation of gravitational pull. Statistics provided on completion pages include number collected of total number needed, time for completion, and number of moves, and could be used to teach division or fractions, or to chart progress and success (the app does not track these from one level to the next). It can hook even reluctant learners as a way to introduce both building and geometry.
World of Goo could be used effectively as a segue to formal lessons on building concepts like the cantilever, stability, and wedging, and physics like Newton's Laws on motion, gravity, and equal and opposite actions. Earn a badge of recognition for teaching digital citizenship.
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