Using+Sims+and+Spore+in+class

I recently bought Sopre and Sims3 for my laptop (I know, I'm behind the times) but it made me wonder how teachers could use these games within the classroom. My mind is usually set on a High-School curriculum but for these games I feel that they could be geared towards a more middle-school classroom.

An article I found in bright Hub (the same place that lead me to Top 10 math games for iPod touch in my post about math in video games) talks about using spore as a jump-off for genetics and other biology and science-based lessons. The title is [|__Spore: Game-Based Learning__]

A way to tie the Sims franchise into the classroom was in story-telling and exploring a fictional story. The main idea was posted on another wiki: [|ipodgamesforlearning]

These are both very interesting ways to teach to the non-standard subjects usually focused on in video games (namely history) using video games.