Hi! I'm Martha Madison.

When it comes to STEM education, I’ve got your back. My award-winning game series brings STEM into your classroom in new and exciting ways that will have your students asking for more. My games give students hands-on experience with the critical physical science concepts, and you get standards-aligned lesson plans to help you drive it all home. I promise, you’ve never seen student engagement with STEM like this before.

Let’s work together to get students excited about STEM!

Hi! I'm Martha Madison.

When it comes to STEM education, I’ve got your back. My award-winning game series brings STEM into your classroom in new and exciting ways that will have your students asking for more. My games give students hands-on experience with the critical physical science concepts, and you get standards-aligned lesson plans to help you drive it all home. I promise, you’ve never seen student engagement with STEM like this before.

Let’s work together to get students excited about STEM!

Bring Physical Science to Life with Martha Madison!

Proof in numbers

95%

of communication during gameplay was actively focused on science and collaboration

95%

of the STEM affiliation gap was closed by minority and economically disadvantaged students in comparison to majority peers

25 minutes

of play facilitated significant concept recognition, which remained in long-term memory even 2 weeks after the play session

For more astonishing numbers:

Martha's Scientific Method

The Martha Madison game curriculum is proven to increase content recognition after just one play session. Here’s how we do it.

Content tailored for the classroom

Every Martha game is designed for 25 minutes of play, the perfect fit for a standard 45-minute class period including start up and review time!

Collaboration and social skills development

Level design based in teamwork facilitates communication centered on problem solving. Students build essential skills and knowledge together, keeping experiences positive and active!

Replay encouraged

All levels have multiple paths to a solution and plenty of room for exploration! Consistent replay in students indicates course concept immersion and dedication to problem solving.

Teacher inspired and research based

Created with teachers and students, aligned with standards, and proven to effectively improve student outcomes, the Martha Madison game-based curriculum has had research at its core from the very beginning.

FREE Teacher Access and the following with purchase of a student license

  • Analytics dashboards to track and leverage educational outcomes in real time
  • Instructional materials to easily integrate the game concepts in the classroom
  • Lesson plans and worksheets
  • Correlations to Common Core, Next Generation Science, and Partnership for 21st Century Learning Standards
  • Online technical support

Martha's Achievements

Bring Martha to your classroom

Martha Madison: Optics

In Martha Madison: Optics, players explore an ancient temple in search of instructions for building a microscope. Players solve challenges based on topics such as reflection, refraction, concave and convex lenses. Explore the free-play optics playground and create new playable levels in the game. Just like real-life scientists, you can work alone or collaboratively to experiment with different approaches. Players are free to make mistakes and try different paths. 

Martha Madison: Optics is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Magnetism

In Martha Madison: Magnetism, Martha needs your help to bring power to a nearby village of animals! There are rumors of an ancient power-generating machine hidden in a temple in the desert, which works using properties of magnetism. Explore the temple, learn about magnetic fields, and place magnets in the correct spots to open the way deeper into the temple.

Martha Madison: Magnetism is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Forces

Can you help the penguins in their quest for ice bricks? In Martha Madison: Forces, students use forces, acceleration, inertia, and friction to move giant ice blocks across a frozen landscape. Once the correct forces are applied, ice choppers are put to work, breaking the blocks into small bricks that Martha’s penguin friends need to build new homes. Experience a free-play forces playground and create custom, playable levels in the game!

Martha Madison: Forces is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Electricity

Feel the power! In Martha Madison: Electricity, players embark on a quest to repair the local power station from damage sustained during a recent storm. Complete circuits while learning about conductors, semiconductors and insulators. Turn on the power and watch the flow of electrons within the circuit using Martha’s amazing Electron Visualizer!

Martha Madison: Electricity is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Waves

Waves to the rescue! As a storm approaches, Martha Madison: Waves challenges players to use the science of waves to rescue Martha’s animal friends. Working as virtual scientists, players use a powerful machine to create transverse waves along ropes and longitudinal waves through water. They adjust the amplitude and manipulate the energy level to save Martha’s friends. Martha Madison, meerkat scientist and student mentor, is on-hand to guide students as they embark on science-filled, problem-solving adventures that bring complex concepts to life.

Martha Madison: Waves is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Simple Machines Volume 1

Transform your room into a science lab and go bonkers with Martha Madison: Simple Machines Volume 1. Players, as virtual scientists, work alone or collaboratively with a partner to use screws, inclined planes and wedges to solve physics puzzles and challenges. Martha Madison, meerkat scientist and student mentor, is on-hand to guide players as they embark on science-filled, problem-solving adventures that bring classroom instruction to life.

Martha Madison: Simple Machines Volume 1 is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Energy

In Martha Madison: Energy, Martha needs your help to deliver a care package to her friend Mole, who is home, sick in bed. The only problem is that his care package was mistakenly delivered to the wrong location! On your journey, you’ll shoot slingshots, jump on giant springs and sail across zip lines while learning about potential, kinetic and chemical energy.

Martha Madison: Energy is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.

Martha Madison: Simple Machines Volume 2

Transform your room into a science lab and go bonkers with Martha Madison: Simple Machines Volume 2. Players, as virtual scientists, work alone or collaboratively with a partner to use pulleys, levers and wheel & axles to solve physics puzzles and challenges. Martha Madison, meerkat scientist and student mentor, is on-hand to guide players as they embark on science-filled, problem-solving adventures that bring classroom instruction to life. 

Martha Madison: Simple Machines Volume 2 is part of a series of games designed from the ground up to enhance middle school-level science curriculum by captivating players and making complex concepts meaningful. All of the games in the Martha Madison series allow players to cooperatively solve real-world challenges that develop critical thinking, problem solving, technology literacy and adaptability.