Multi-Genre Game Sites
The Problem Site is loaded with great games for students. Some of the games are traditional "hang-man" style games, some of the games are traditional games with a twist, and some of the games are completely new. Each game is designed to help students develop problem solving skills. The games are categorized as word games, math games, or strategy games.
Spree Games catalogs educational games that are available
online. On the site you can
search for educational games by grade level, age, and subject area.
Spree Games provides a short overview of each game's purpose.
Spree Games
provides an option to register for an account that students can use to
track which games they've played and their progress on those games. Or
you can simply go directly to the site that hosts each of the games and
play them there.
Smithsonian Science has put all their games in one place.
BBC
Schools - Games****
This site offers the typical high-quality activities you can expect from
the BBC. There are games for many subjects, divided into age ranges
from four years old to over sixteen.
Brainbean app is a colorful, kid-friendly game that will boost your students’ critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Neo K12 K12 is a comprehensive collection of educational videos, lessons, and games for students in grades k-12. Neo K12 believes that, “kids learn best by ‘seeing’ the real world.”
Power My Learning a wide variety of games for all subjects and grade levels.
Super Games is an iPad app for educational games from the famous educator Mr. Nussbaum. These games are designed for grades K-8th and cover a wide range of subjects such as: Math, Reading, History, Geography, and much more. There are over a dozen of free games to choose from
TESiboard (Blue Gr. 2-6) resources are primarily open-ended tools that enable teachers to enagage their pupils in a learning dialogue around the resource. The resources are designed for use by the teacher on their interactive whiteboard but many are also suitable for pupil use, usually responding to a task or challenge set by the teacher.
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
Professor
Garfield
This is a partnership between the creator of the famous cat (yes, that
Garfield) and Ball State University. The content covers the usual
subject areas, along with career exploration and activities geared
particularly to students with learning disabilities. The focus is on
Kindergarten to Eighth Grade. I especially like the "Knowledge Box"
section of the site, which has activities, too numerous to mention,
divided by grade and subject area.
Brain Nook Suitable for: Primary BrainNook contains over a hundred educational games based on important
concepts in the critical foundational subjects of Math and English
Grammar. Children play these games while exploring colorful virtual
worlds, safely competing and interacting with other children, and
solving puzzles.
Classroom activity with Plan-ED - This is a cross-curricular activity requiring mathematical skills (pattern recognition, planning, and analysis) and language arts skills (written and verbal).
FitBrain - games that develop visual spatial skills
Curriculum Bits A website that offers free access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The site contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. The site is geared at students aged 11 to 16.The Game Closet containing games, movies, quizzes, and activities for learning about topics in health. The contents of The Game Closet has a section for teenagers and a section for younger students.
Science Games
Multi-Science Areas
Games for Science (gr. 2-6)
Try Engineering is a site that hosts lesson plans and games designed to get students interested in engineering. The lesson plans, 114 in all, are arranged according age and engineering topic. The lesson plans can be downloaded as PDFs. The games section of Try Engineering
features 29 games. Some of the games were developed specifically for
Try Engineering while others are hosted on other educational sites like
those of NASA and PBS.
Frankenstein200, (10–14 )a game that uses Mary Shelley’s tale of scientific hubris to get children thinking about such ideas as robotics, bioengineering, and humans’ reasons for creating. In the game, students immerse themselves in an online story about what might happen if Tori Frankenstein, a descendant of Victor, picked up where her ancestor left off. The game takes players into Frankenstein’s high-tech Laboratory for Innovation and Fantastical Exploration (LIFE) and invites them to help two young researchers as the daring—and sinister—scientist confronts a scientific mystery. Students watch videos and get emails from characters. Along the way, students can take quizzes, do puzzles, and play games. At-home activities take the game’s questions off the computer and into the real world. The game raises many questions about scientific ethics and responsibility. It includes lessons about topics such as DNA, electricity, and artificial intelligence. The game takes 30 days to play
Smithsonian Science has put all their games in one place.
Power My Learning games in astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, health, physics, environment, and meteorology,
Wonderville (gr 3-6) Environment, ecology, physics and biology games
Logic Science Games in numerous areas
Online Games: some can be downloaded http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/kids/.
Shape It Up (1- 5)
is one of many good educational games and activities on Kinetic City. Shape It Up is
an activity that would be good for use in an elementary school
Kinetic City (3-8)
This
site has an amazing collection of Science Experiments, Games and
Projects
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
The Great Idea Finder Information and insights on inventors and games
Nobelprize.org gr. 6-12 educational section consists of 46 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read more" about the subject.
Science Museum.org
offers sixteen free online science games for students . The games are
designed for elementary age students to explore a variety of science
concepts including energy, genetics, environmental science. Each game is
accompanied by a set of links to support and complement the content
that game addresses.
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab shows children aged 5–9 how much fun science can be. Using this app,
students set out on an adventure to an unknown world—a world where
Thomas Edison had a secret lab in which he invented a virtual version of
himself and a nearly completed robot to guide and inspire future
generations of young scientists. Students can explore the lab, play
games, learn about Thomas Edison and other inventors, meet the Secret
Lab Kids, learn about inventions and discoveries, create holograms, and
enjoy videos. The app is available for iOS, Android,
Succeeding With Science is a resource for games, videos, and other activities for teaching and learning science. Succeeding With Science is organized by age. Within each age range there is a selection of games and activities for students to use on his or her own. You'll find that quite a few of the activities are suitable for use on touchscreen computers and interactive whiteboards.
Forensics National Science Foundation produces educational web adventures based on the CSI television series.
The web adventures are designed to teach students the process of
forensic investigation and problem solving. There are three cases or
levels to the CSI web adventures.
Science gr 3-5 Human body, mammals, insects, space
Wonderville is a highly interactive, animated site which features a wide array of science explorations and games.
Earth Science lesson. The activity presents students with "before" and "after" images of a piece of Earth. Students then have to select the force nature and the span of time it took to create the "after" picture. If students choose incorrectly, Shape It Up will tell the student and they can choose again.
NOAA's Games Planet Arcade offers twenty-six educational games for young students. The games are intended to help students learn about oceans, wildlife, and weather. Twenty of the games address topics related to marine life.
While the games are not terribly complex or fancy, they do offer some solid information for young students.
Carbon Cycle Game Students travel along the carbon cycle from land to sea and learn about the carbon cycle and its impact on the planet.
Games @Noaa A portal to games and interactive activities focused on ocean and air themes. It highlights the science and the activities of the National ...
Earth, Sun, and Moon gr. 2-3 Watch the movie and then take the quiz.
Weather Reporter gr. 3-5 Report and predict the weather.
The Smithsonian Science Education Center's Weather Lab is one of many online learning activities produced and hosted by the Smithsonian. The Weather Lab is designed to help elementary and middle school students learn about weather patterns. In the Weather Lab students select an ocean current and an air mass then try to predict the weather pattern that will result from their choices.
Climate Change Games gr. 4- 12
Climate Kids online games address include recycling, renewable energy, and climate history. Before students jump into the games or hands-on activities featured on Climate Kids students should work through the guided big questions wheel. The guided questions wheel walks students through the basic concepts and issues related to climate change. Six questions are featured in the wheel. Students select a question to discover the answers through the exploration of a series of smaller questions. Each question is addressed with a mix of image, text, and video explanations.
Interactive Weather
Maker gr. 3-5 Let the sun shine, or make the wind blow by changing
the temperature and humidity.
Water Evaporation Activity gr. 3-5 Study the effect of humidity and temperature on
the evaporation rate of water
Weatherwise App ( Android ) Experience creative animated weather scenes crafted by artists, illustrators, and photographers. A different kind of weather app that allows for infinite possibilities of weather visualization built upon a 2D game engine
Aquation is a free game offered by the the Smithsonian Science Education Center. The game, designed for students in upper elementary school or middle school, teaches students about the distribution of clean water and what can be done to balance global water resources.
NOAA's Games Planet Arcade offers twenty-five educational games for young students. The games are intended to help students learn about oceans, wildlife, and weather. Twenty of the games address topics related to marine life. While the games are not terribly complex or fancy, they do offer some solid information for young students. Sea Turtles and the Quest to Nest is one of the headline games of NOAA's Games Planet Arcade. The object of the game is to help a sea turtle avoid common obstacles on while navigating the ocean and the beach before laying her eggs and returning to the sea.
16 games and interactive videos about
animals and other features of nature. Through the games students can also learn about glaciers, ocean
waves, and forensics.
Fortunately, many Nature episodes are now available to view online. Episodes can be found on the Nature website and on PBS Video.
You could use some of the Nature games as a follow-up to watching some
of the video clips you could use some of the Nature games.
Solar Energy Defenders gr. 5-8 Collect energy during the day to ward of the vampires at night. Consider sun angle, tilt, shadows and time of year to maximize your energy collection.
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
Weather Flash! gr. 3-5 Help Stan the Weatherman out with his forecasts.
Interactive Water Cycle gr. 3-5 An animated activity that lets you control the water cycle as you learn.
Rock Around the Park gr. 4-5 See how erosion effects the land.
Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker gr. 4-6 Push your mouse around to move continents and change the landscape.
Volcano Lab gr. 4-6 Get ready to rumble.Test your volcano knowledge.
Pangaea Map Game gr. 4-6 Locate modern day continents on a Map of Pangaea!
Shape it Up gr. 4-6 Choose the correct force of nature and span of time to create the target land formation.
Earthquakes for Kids The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers puzzles, games, learning links and activities, science fair project ideas, animations, and an explanation of the science of earthquakes.
Physics
PhyFun is a great site for physics based games educational games for kids. These games focus on levers, objects, and more. Also, there are lots of walkthroughs and hints on the games as well.
Physics Games - online physics-based games
Simple Machines is a game that is designed to help students learn about the basic physics principals involved in the use of levels, pulleys, planes, axles, and wheels. The object of the game is to help a robot character named Twitch gather the pieces needed to make a simple machine.
The Compound Machine from EdHeads teaches how forces and simple machines can work together.
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab shows children aged 5–9 how much fun science can be. Using this app,
students set out on an adventure to an unknown world—a world where
Thomas Edison had a secret lab in which he invented a virtual version of
himself and a nearly completed robot to guide and inspire future
generations of young scientists. Students can explore the lab, play
games, learn about Thomas Edison and other inventors, meet the Secret
Lab Kids, learn about inventions and discoveries, create holograms, and
enjoy videos. The app is available for iOS, Android,
Heat Transfer Many students think that ice cools a drink because it transfers its
“coldness” to the warmer liquid. That notion is challenged by Galactic Gloop Zoo,
a game in which success depends on understanding that heat is
transferred from warmer to colder objects through conduction,
convection, and radiation.
Assess Physics Learning Through Gameplay Physics Playground
teaches and assess two-dimensional physics simulations dealing with
Newton’s Laws of Motion—concepts such as gravity, mass, momentum and
energy. Embedded in the game are assessments for creativity, conscientiousness and physics understanding.
The game has a simple objective: get the green ball to hit the red
balloon. The ball and balloon are placed in various locations on the
screen, sometimes with obstacles in between, and students have to draw
“agents of motion,” such as levers, springboards, pendulums or ramps, to
get the ball to hit the red balloon. To increase the level of
difficulty and receive more points, students can solve the problems
using fewer agents to accomplish a task. Other times, difficulty is
added if a level looks completely different from the previous levels.
The problems have no one “right” answer.
Beanstalk! This game focuses on explicitly teaching balance to the player, as they must plant flowers to counter balance the different bugs falling onto the plank.
RumbleBlocks: K-4 Building Blocks Game This game is designed to teach children ages 4-11 how to build and identify stable structures.
Energy Kids
provides a wealth of easily accessible information about energy which
students can use to play games, solve riddles, and take quizzes about
energy. Some of the games students will find include Energy Sudoku,
crossword puzzles, and riddles. Energy Kids
also provides students of all ages with ideas and outlines for science
fair projects around the energy theme. The science fair projects are
available as free PDF downloads.
Wonderville (gr 3-6) Simple machines, solar energy, friction, and more
Physics Games.net, gr. 3-8 a website of games based on simple physics concepts. Physic Games offers dozens of games based on a physics concept or two. Each game can be played directly on the Physics Games website or embedded into your blog or website.
Impulse Designed to model Newton’s laws of motion, Impulse! challenges players
to conserve energy while navigating through a sea of moving particles to
reach the goal.
Launchball
is from the British Science Musuem. Students can create a sort of
video game (and learn scientific concepts in the process), title it, and
post the url.
Physics - gr. 6 - 12 click on games below
Invar & Steel Alloys - Laser Challenge - Liquid Crystals - Microscopes
Observing the World of Particles- Relativity- Semiconductors- Star Stories
Structure of Matter - The Quantised World- Transistors- Vacuum Tubes- X-rays
The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits (gr. 4-8) interactive animations designed to help learn how electric circuits work. There are five sections to the series. Each section in the series has a few short lessons and is followed by an animated interactive activity to which students can apply what they have just learned.
The
Compound Machine gr. 3-4 Learn how forces and simple machines can work together.
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
Slinkyball (gr 6-9) Solve simple physics problems by adding and moving pieces to get the ball into the bin.
Tinker Ball gr. 3-4 Use your engineering skills and simple machines to get a ball into a cup.
Simple Machine Activities gr. 3-4 Visit rooms in the house and identify the simple machines.
Levers and Pulleys gr. 3-4 Get the clown to perform by adjusting the machines
in this contraption.
Nobelprize.org's gr. 6-12 educational section consists of 46 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read more" about the subject.
Design Your Own Roller Coaster gr. 3-5 Use the laws of motion and gravity to create an online roller coaster.
Autodesk Digital STEAM Applied Mechanics iPad app contains five simple games. The games are designed to let students experiment with five connected physics concepts. The concepts in the games are energy and work, force, power, loading, and mechanisms. In each game students control one variable to see how changing that variable affects other aspects of the equation.
Energy Games
Mechanical Madness gr. 3-5 A kinetic sculpture needs your help to make these machine works.
Medieval Levers students watch a short animated video about the physics of levers before trying to build their own catapults to use to attack the castle.
Nanobots gr. 5-8 Safely guide the nanorobot, paying attention to the positive and negative
Fantastic Contraption gr. 3-5 Build whimsical machines to solve each level.
Hurry Hard Master the laws of friction and rotation
DESIGNit, BUILDit, FIDGiT gr. 3-5 Your goal is to bounce, flip and roll Fidgets safely to their box.
Amusement Physics Are you really in danger when you are taking those hairpin turns and death-defying loops on a roller coaster? Discover how amusement park rides use the laws of physics to simulate danger, while keeping the rides safe. -
Power Play gr. 3-5 Build a machine that will harness power and complete the task.
Magnets in my Kitchen gr. 4-6 Investigate the magnets found in a typical kitchen.
Electromagnet Activity gr. 4-6 How many iron filings can you pick up?
Changing Electric Circuits 4-6 Make and change electrical circuits.
Electricity Students often visualize electricity as a substance that flows like water. The platformer game in this module, Monster Music, challenges that misconception with puzzles that serve as analogies for electricity as a state of molecular alignment.
Squishy Circuits is a project developed at the University of St. Thomas for the purpose of creating tools that students can use to create circuits and explore electronics. Squishy Circuits uses Playdough-like to enable hands-on learning about conducting and insulating currents as well as creating circuits. The Squishy Circuits website provides directions for creating the dough and offers ideas for lessons using the dough. Watch this TED Talk for an explanation and demonstration of Squishy Circuits.
Circuits.io is a free website on which you can design and test electrical circuits. You can design your circuits using the virtual version of components that you could purchase and place on a circuit board. As you design your circuits, Circuits.io will tell you if your circuits will work or not.
Engineering Interact is a site for elementary school students designed by the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Engineering Interact offers five games designed to teach students physics concepts. The games address concepts related to light, sound, motion, electricity, and space travel. Each of the five games presents students with a scenario in which they have to "help" someone solve a problem. The games require students to learn and analyze the information presented to them.
EcoKids This award-winning EcoKids web site is an interactive environmental web site for children, their families, and educators in Canada and around the world. It offers topical information about the environment through interactive, fun, educational games and activities
Recycle Hero for iPad App Store is an adventure game that teaches kids about recycling and taking care of the environment, a real life skill. With different game dynamics and the help of the ECOfriends, we want to motivate kids to take action in real life adopting green-friendly habits. Recycle Hero integrates 6 different game dynamics, including puzzles, sorting, logic and strategy games.
Bioman Biology is a nice resource that I learned about from David Andrade. On Bioman Biology you will find dozens of educational games and virtual labs designed to help students learn about topics related to biology. The games and virtual labs are organized into eight topics; physiology, cells, ecology, genetics, classification, life chemistry, respiration, and scientific methods. Most the games are Flash-based but a handful of them are available as free iPad apps. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
Cleaner Upper The player assumes the role of the Cat in the Hat. They must collect different items in different locations and determine if they should recycle or compost it.
Carbon Cycle Game Students travel along the carbon cycle from land to sea and learn about the carbon cycle and its impact on the planet.
Ozone is a lower elementary science game to show how pollution can affect the Earth's population.
Feed the Dingo
is a fun game that teaches students about the importance of maintaining
balanced ecosystems. In the game students have to build and maintain a
desert ecosystem. The game begins with a blank slate to which students
have to add plants and animals. The game plays out over twelve virtual
days. Each day students have to add more elements in order to maintain
balance in the ecosystem. At the end of each day students are given
feedback as to which plants and animals are healthy, which are in
danger, and which have died.
Environment Games gr. 5- 12 from Game Changer
Wonderville (gr 3-6) Environment, ecology pollution, water conservation, energy consumptions and more
Weebit World gr. 4-6 Experiment with an ecosystem to find a balance between weebits, their food, and the right climate.
Nobelprize.org's gr. 6-12 educational section consists of 46 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read more" about the subject.
Night Zoo Keeper Users design an animal, either based on a real animal or something completely new. Then they write a profile bio for the animal and upload pictures. Then users are encouraged to write a story about their creature. There are also games and activities to play once you have signed in.
EPA Environmental Games (gr. 1-2)
Interactive Weather
Chairs Mastering organic chemistry is tough. Memorizing terms and formulas might get you through general chemistry, but may lead to failure in organic chemistry. Success requires learning to think visually. Chair conformations, called ring flips, offer great exercises in spatial reasoning, which is key for mastering organic chemistry.
Stop Disasters gr 6-12 Prevent disasters from happening in this game produced by the United Nations.
Global Electricity Outlook is an interactive display of electricity consumption across the globe. You can view the global picture or click on the map to view regional consumption. The display shows the means of electricity production globally and regionally. To see how shifting production sources would impact the world or a region use the sliders below the map.
Would You Eat That? presents a food and a list of ten ingredients that you might not expect to find in that food. To play the game you have to correctly identify which four of those ten ingredients is in your food.
Chemistry and You : chemistry educational
resources
See for yourself how chemistry is
present in nearly everything we see and everything we do. Take a tour and play
the game.t http://www.chemistryandyou.org/index2.htm.
Nobelprize.org's gr. 6-12 educational section consists of 46 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read more" about the subject.
Classic Chembalancer Learn to balance chemical equationsReview Chembalancer Review balancing chemical equations
Brain Boggle Chembalancer Up for some hard chemical equations?
Fun and Run Online Chemistry Game
Practice essential skills needed for introductory chemistry in a fun, fast paced way.
Classic Chembalancer gr 7-11 balance chemical equations in 30 mins. with this game
Conductive Valley Game Learn about electrically conductive polymers.
Chirality - Conductive Polymers - Plastics - The PCR Method
EleMental Stack up elements and combine them into compounds.
It's Elemental Learn the number of protons, neutrons, electrons and nucleons in different elements.
Forensics National Science Foundation produces educational web adventures based on the CSI television series. The web adventures are designed to teach students the process of forensic investigation and problem solving. There are three cases or levels to the CSI web adventures.
Game Using Chemistry Concepts to Solve a Forensics Case
ChemCollective’s free Mixed Reception game is set in a research group that is developing an antivenom for spider bites. In the opening scene, Nelson Pogline, a talented graduate student, dies unexpectedly at a university reception. In their role as detectives, students must use chemistry concepts to determine if he was murdered, and if so, to solve the case. They can interview suspects, investigate the crime scene for clues with virtual-reality images, and analyze the evidence from the crime lab. The activity requires basic knowledge of formula weight, chemical reactions, and the scientific method.
Human Body Interactives
Interactive games to explore the human body from senses to body system
Code Fred developed by the Museum of Science and Industry,
Chicago. The game helps players learn about the human body's responses
to trauma. The object of the game is to help "Fred" escape from the
woods while he is chased by a wolf. To keep Fred running players have to
pump blood, increase the flow of oxygen, and send adrenaline through
Fred's body. If a player doesn't respond to the needs of Fred's body
fast enough, he will get caught by the wolf that is chasing him.
Science gr. 2-3 Human body, mammals, insects, space
Bioman Biology is a nice resource that I learned about from David Andrade. On Bioman Biology you will find dozens of educational games and virtual labs designed to help students learn about topics related to biology. The games and virtual labs are organized into eight topics; physiology, cells, ecology, genetics, classification, life chemistry, respiration, and scientific methods. Most the games are Flash-based but a handful of them are available as free iPad apps. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
Guts and Bolts helps students understand the complex relationships among the circulatory, respiratory, and digestives systems in the human body.
CellCraft (gr 3-6) Build a cell, fight off viruses, survive harsh worlds, and save the Platypus species!
Control of the Cell Cycle (gr 2-5) A game about controlling the cell cycle.
Code Fred developed by the Museum of Science and Industry,
Chicago. The game helps players learn about the human body's responses
to trauma. The object of the game is to help "Fred" escape from the
woods while he is chased by a wolf. To keep Fred running players have to
pump blood, increase the flow of oxygen, and send adrenaline through
Fred's body. If a player doesn't respond to the needs of Fred's body
fast enough, he will get caught by the wolf that is chasing him.
Would You Eat That? presents a food and a list of ten ingredients that you might not expect to find in that food. To play the game you have to correctly identify which four of those ten ingredients is in your food.
Infection Detection Search for where germs
hide from the American Museum of National History Read the story "How Lou Got the Flu" or play the game "Bacteria
in the Cafeteria"
Pandemic2 (gr 8-12) Play the role of an evil scientist trying to create a biological weapon.
Germ Games (Do Bugs Need Drugs) -This site
has many germ related games. Stay on the "Kids" page.
Immune System Defender Fight invading bacteria.
Nobelprize.org's gr. 6-12 educational section consists of 46
productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various
sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read
more" about the subject
Biology: Incredible MegaCell
Learn about ultracentrifuges and orgnelles.
Medicine
Diabetes and Insulin Game (gr 3- 8) Learn about Diabetes and Insulin by helping a diabetic dog.
Blood Typing - Control of the Cell Cycle - Diabetes and Insulin - DNA - RNA - ProteinLife Science: Blood Typing Game (gr. 2-5) Learn about blood types and Rh factors.
DNA - the Double Helix - Ear Pages - ECG/Electrocardiogram - Immune Responses
DNA - The Double Helix (gr 2-5) Make copies of DNA by matching base pairs and identify the source.
Heredity Misconceptions about heredity are partly the result of the difference between the scientific and everyday meanings of words such as “random” and “dominant.” Playing RoboRiot supports the development of a more accurate understanding of these terms and concepts.
Eye of the Donkey DNA Game (gr 2-5)Learn how to copy large amounts of fragments of DNA.Immune System - Malaria - MRI - Nerve Signaling - Pavlov's Dog
Split Brain Experiments - The Cell and its Organelles - The Genetic Code
Tuberculosis - Vitamin B1
Thingdom is a challenging game through which students can learn about genetics. The game, produced by the London Science Museum, asks players to select a "thing" then try to find a make for that "thing" based on various traits. Players move through a progression of challenges in which they try to create "thing" offspring that have certain traits.
All Systems are Go: Body Systems Help Arnold identify these important organ systems and put them back into his body where they belong.
You Make Me Sick You Make Me Sick! is a rich, interactive introduction to the exciting world of pathogens. The Double Helix Make copies of DNA by matching base pairs and identify the source.
Genetic Code (gr 2-6) Crack and learn the genetic code.
Routes A series of minigames about genetics.
Gut Instinct Battle intruders in the digestive tract.
Stages of Life gr. 4-6 How much do you know about the stages of life for different organisms?
Life Cycles, players choose an animal, and complete the life-cycle to see the animal reproduce and multiple by dragging the stages of development into the circle in the right order.
Creepy Critters gr. 4-6 Can you identify the creepy critters that may be living on or in your body?
Disease Detective gr. 4-6 Trace the outbreak of a mysterious illness, 'dizzy fever,' to its source.
Medicine gr 6 - 12
Blood Typing - Control of the Cell Cycle - Diabetes and Insulin - DNA - RNA - ProteinDNA - the Double Helix - Ear Pages - ECG/Electrocardiogram - Immune Responses
Immune System - Malaria - MRI - Nerve Signaling - Pavlov's Dog
Split Brain Experiments - The Cell and its Organelles - The Genetic Code
Tuberculosis - Vitamin B1
Microorganisms gr. 4-6 Locate the microorganisms and then take the quiz.
Foldit - Solve genetic puzzles and help Science research.
Animals and Plants
Forest Layers Walk What lives in the tallest tree or under a rotting log?
My Life as an Elk gr. 3-5 Transform into an elk and learn about life in the wild.
Tracking at the White Sands gr. 4-5 Each animal leaves a distinct track. Choose the animal that matches the tracks.
Shutterbugs Wiggle and Stomp is an educational game produced by the Smithsonian. The purpose of the game is to help children recognize the movements of animals.
Animal Characteristic Game Fill the bins with the characteristic that best fits the animal type.
Photosynthesis designed to help dispel the common misconceptions
Reach for the Sun manage a plant to help it produce as many seeds as possible before winter comes.
Ecosystem Explorer produced by PBS Learning Media, is a nice collection videos, images, and games designed to help students learn about the roles of predators and scavengers in ecosystems. Three animals are featured in Ecosystem Explorer: wolves, sharks, and vultures.
Who am I? gr. 4-5 Use the clues to match the animal to its description.
What Tree is That? gr 3-5 You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit.
Habitats is a game from the Smithsonian Science Education Center. The online game challenges elementary school to match animals to their habitats. The game shows students images representative of four habitats; desert, coral reef, jungle, and marsh. Students drag pictures of animals from a list to their corresponding habitats. Students receive instant feedback on each move they make in the game. Once an animal has been placed in the correct habitat students can click on it to learn more about it in the Encyclopedia of Life.
Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp. the app is a teaching game that shows children how to describe movement and motion while visiting exotic animals at the National Zoo. The app equips players with a virtual camera to take pictures of the animals as they perform motions. The game responds to individual players, adjusting the difficulty depending on the child’s progress. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards,
16 games and interactive videos about animals and other features of nature. Through the games and videos students can learn about penguins, sea turtles, and eleven other animals. Fortunately, many Nature episodes are now available to view online. Episodes can be found on the Nature website and on PBS Video. You could use some of the Nature games as a follow-up to watching some of the video clips you could use some of the Nature games.
Life's Devices Find the connections between the living and nonliving objects at each level to send the sock monkey hero, Darwin, on a voyage of discovery! Themed around adaptation in nature, Life’s Devices challenges players to use their knowledge of the world around them to figure out the connections between living and nonliving objects within a scene.
Crazy Plant Shop gr 5-8 Learn how cells grow and function is contained in genes in the chromosomes of each cell nucleus and that during the process of reproduction the genes are passed from the parent cells to offspring; learn how biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species on Earth today; determine the probabilities for genotype and phenotype combinations using Punnett Squares and pedigrees; learn why offspring that result from sexual reproduction are likely to have more diverse characteristics than offspring that result from asexual reproduction.
Who Pooped? is an interactive game in which students learn about various animals by guessing which animal created which pile of poop. Believe it or not, there is actually some good information about the animals that follows each round of guessing who created which poop.
Food Chain The order that animals feed on other plants and animals is called a food chain.Do you think you can put a food chain together? Play Chain Reaction to learn why every animal within a food chain is so important.
Flower Saver gr. K-2 Demonstrates how animals depend on flowers
Great Nocturnal Hat Hunt gr. K-2 Play games to understand how nocturnal animals navigate at night.
Now You See Me, Now You Don't gr. K-2 Camouflage game
Food Chain Game Create a food chain in different habitats
Invasive Species Start as an Asian carp, and then drive a simulation to prevent this invasive species from entering Lake Michigan.
Science Human body, mammals, insects, space
Space
Lunar Cycle Challenge gr. 4-6 Drag moons to the their place in the lunar cycle.
Astroventure gr. 4-6 Go with Astro and learn about the tools that astronomers use to detect planets.
Station Spacewalk Game is designed for middle school students to learn about the purposes and functions of the International Space Station. In the game students go on Extravehicular Activities modeled after real EVAs performed by astronauts. Station Spacewalk can be played online or downloaded for free as a Windows game or as a Mac game.
Gravity Launch gr. 4-6 Launch a rocket into space to see how the force of gravity can pull an object toward the earth and moon.
Go to the Head of the Solar System gr. 4-6 Answer questions about celestial objects as they travel through the solar system.
Planetary Rescue Squad gr. 4-6 Your goal is provide parts to space colonists.
Science Human body, mammals, insects, space
Planet In Action is a website that features games based on Google Earth. In the Moon Lander game you take control of the Apollo 11 moon lander and guide the Eagle to touch-down.
4th Science
Mohs' Castle of DoomThe walls are closing in on you. To escape you must drill through them.
Math K- 12
Primary Grades
Funschool games K-4
Coolmath4kids K-4
Prodigy K - 6 is a free online Math game that is ideal for Game Based Learning. This super fun highly engaging game designed for grades 1st-6th and is aligned to Common Core Standards. Best of all is the teacher portal which allows for educators to assess students and get instant real-time reporting. Prodigy, even has a unique learning engine which allows the game to differentiate instruction and help students w/ areas they are struggling in. Teachers can modify the game to suit their needs and select which skills their students need to focus on too. Also, Prodigy is browser based and works on any device
Math Snacks is a site for
educational games, animations, and more, for Math grades 3rd-7th. A learning tool to use w/ any Math curriculum and can help
teachers differentiate instruction. Also, this is a nice way to
introduce Game Based Learning into the classroom. There are an abundance of teacher resources such as: lesson plans, teacher guides,
etc etc, and all resources are aligned to Common Core Standards and
available in Spanish.
GoGo Math Games K-12 free educational games. Wide variety of subjects, such as:
fractions, operations, money and more. Many of the games are to reinforce skills, but there are also games that encourage mathematical thinking and logic. Finally, there is a very nice
section for teachers where they can find a wide variety of educational
resources.
Math Chimp is a free site full of math games, videos, and other math review materials for elementary school and middle school students. Search by grade levels. Aligned to Common Core.
Math is Fun explains math concepts in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.
Matific is a fantastic site/mobile app (iOS/Android) for Math grades K-6. The app has a wide variety of educational games/activities for El Ed aligned to Common Core Standards. While the site has tons of educational resources such as: worksheets, activities, videos, and more. Best of all is the educational portal which allows educators to track student progress and differentiate instruction.
PBS Kids Cyberchase gr 3-5website offers dozens of educational games. The games are intended to
help students develop their skills in mathematics, logic, and pattern
recognition. Students who have PBS Kids accounts can keep track of the
games they've played and rank the games they've played.
Bee Math (gr 1) Problem solving
Math Chimp (gr K-8) games can be found by selecting the grade that they teach then selecting a standard or objective. After you make those selections Math Chimp will direct you to an appropriate mathematics game for your students.
Money Honey (gr 1-2) Count the money and change into numbers
Maths Frame is a site that offers more than 170 mathematics games for elementary / primary school students. The games cover basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. On the site you'll also find some games for practicing recognition, probability, and scale reading. The games can be played without registering on the site.
Math Interactives (gr. 3-6) A wide variety of games that teach skills and problem solving
Free Training Tutorial - A long list of free online math games. Teachers can select games and create their own specific math lesson.
SumDogMath - 100 Numeracy topics at ten levels. Teachers can upload their class list. Ability to customize specific math such as add numbers up to five, ordering numbers up to 20. Students can log in and save scores. Audio can be distracting for some students (turn it off in the Talent Game activity if that is the case) as can the time pressure.
PBS Kids Lab (preK - 2) is a site for educators
looking for educational resources and online games for Math. These
games focus on PBS's famous cartoon characters such as: Curious George,
Dinosaur Train, Wild Kratts, etc etc. These games focus on kids ages
3-8 yrs old. PBS Kids Lab also has a nice variety of home activities as
well as other classroom activities, such as Augmented Reality.
Mathsframe has more than 170 free interactive maths games. All resources are designed, by an experienced KS2 teacher, to help children to visualize numbers, patterns and numerical relationships and to develop their mathematical thinking. New games are added most weeks.
Tangram Chess - This app has students trying to recreate shapes by rotating, reflecting, or translating them to the other side of the chess board. Also, this game is blue-tooth enabled allowing multiplayers players across multiple devices.
Doodle Fit (app) The task in Doodle Fit is simple: fit the given sets of blocks into the given shapes. Drag the blocks into positions in search for the layout that covers the whole shape. A level is complete when all blocks have been used and there is no more space free in the shape.
Math 4 Children - gr. 1 scroll down past the addition games for more thoughtful programs
Math K-1 wide variety of skill builders and reasoning games
Skill Builders K -5
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
My Name Is Hunt uses maps, but is also a text-based “choose your own adventure” style of game.
urbanopticon is a game that incorporates the idea of “citizen science.” Here is how they explain it: This game will show you randomly selected urban scenes and ask you where they are. In so doing, we capture your mental map – that is, which parts of the city you tend to correctly recognize. By combining your answers with other people’s, we are able to draw the collective mental map of the city.
Where In the World Play
the game to explore country landmarks all over the world, from royal
palaces to historical attractions. See if you can figure out where in
the world you are!
Harcourt Games K - 8 Visual and manipulative problems solving
Calendar Clowns (gr. 1-3) Games teaches how to navigate a calendar
Numbernut - Math games for interactive white boards
The Time Game:K-2 telling time with analog and digital manipulative clock.vmathlive.com (1-4) allows students as young as first grade to practice their math skills in "friendly" competition with students all over the world. Students bring up the math games and play them with students from different countries. There is a map that shows in real time the students' locations.
Rounding Master (gr. 2-5) Rounding off game in a Who Wants to be A Millionaire format
Ice, Ice, Maybe Fast ( gr. 3-6) Estimation with subtraction, multiplication and division
Garage Sale Wizard (gr 1-3) You play
the role of a cranky old man trying to make a few bucks
by selling his stuff at a garage sale. For each item, there
will be three people vying for its purchase. Each person
will offer a different amount of money. Count up the
coins and click on the person who offers the best
deal (the most money).
Cash Out (gr 1-2) Give customer change by clicking on the coins under the cash register.
Change for the Better game for familiarizing young kids with coins, with a surprising amount of strategy to use as problem solving or logic material for older students.
Maximum Capacity (gr 2-4) In Maximum Capacity, you play the role of an elevator attendant who must bring as many gorillas as possible to the eighth floor for the annual Gorilla's Ball at the Jungle Hotel
Stock the Shelves (gr 3-5) Coordinate Grid Game in a store setting
Clever Games for Clever People – Offline games that you can make.
Grade 4-6
Funschool games K-4
Prodigy K - 6 is a free online Math game that is ideal for Game Based Learning. This super fun highly engaging game designed for grades 1st-6th and is aligned to Common Core Standards. Best of all is the teacher portal which allows for educators to assess students and get instant real-time reporting. Prodigy, even has a unique learning engine which allows the game to differentiate instruction and help students w/ areas they are struggling in. Teachers can modify the game to suit their needs and select which skills their students need to focus on too. Also, Prodigy is browser based and works on any device
Banana Hunt Angle Measurement Students are given a degree measurement and have to estimate where to move the monkey so that it is as close to the measurement as possible. The closer they are, the more bananas they are given as a reward.Math is Fun explains math concepts in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.
Rounding and Estimating Game
13 Rounding Games
Factors & Multiples Games
Dunk Tank: Liquid Volume Learning about measurements have never been more fun than with “Dunk Tank” from the PBS KIDS math series Cyberchase! In this interactive game, students explore key concepts about liquid volume, including standard units of liquid measure and how to convert between them. For grades 5-6
Power My Learning equations, functions, geometry, logic,
measurement, number systems, ratios, statistics
Algebra Games and Simulations
Order of Operations Jeopardy
Fractions, Decimals, Percents
Geo Tombs helps students learn about Geometry (perimeter/area). This game
works like a standard platform game where a user has to run and jump
collecting keys and different items, while solving equations and
unlocking chests.
Gymnasium for the Brain This is a nice site
for educational games/activities to help stimulate the brain. Ideally,
this site is geared toward helping students solve math problems but
there is much more, such as: puzzles, patterns, etc.
Math Snacks is a site for
educational games, animations, and more, for Math grades 3rd-7th.
A learning tool to use w/ any Math curriculum and can help
teachers differentiate instruction. Also, this is a nice way to
introduce Game Based Learning into the classroom. There are an
abundance of teacher resources such as: lesson plans, teacher guides,
etc etc, and all resources are aligned to Common Core Standards and
available in Spanish.
Coolmath4kids K-4
Fog Stone Isle
(gr. 5-6) lets students play through the free fraction games at their
own pace, using adaptive technology to monitor student progress. You can
have students working on Fog Stone Isle during class time, at an after
school club, or in the evenings and on weekends from home or a local
library. Cignition automatically creates problems that are just right
for each student, and teachers can easily monitor progress. For each
fraction topic (e.g. fraction addition) the comprehensive teacher
workstation shows student progress through each of the conceptual leaps
that must be made to master that topic.
Mangahigh (
gr 4-12) creates
exceptionally high-quality, game-based learning resources to help
Primary and Secondary students reinforce their Mathematics skills in a
way that is both fun and engaging. ( example games: factoring, linear
equations, percents, angular measurement... ) In addition to all the
great
resources, the service includes assessment and analytical tools that
enable teachers to monitor the progress of individual students. Best of
all, these activities also work great on an Interactive
Whiteboard
Lure of Labyrinth – Your students will enjoy this digital game for middle-school pre-algebra
students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles
wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find
their lost pet while saving the world from monsters! Best of all, it is
linked to both Common Core and national (NCTM) standards. You will
find that the game gives students a chance to actually think like
mathematicians.
Math Trail students to explore virtual trails that lead to a variety of locations connected by a theme. Along the way, students put their math and geography skills to the test. The trail list currently has eight trails to choose from. In each trail, math questions are hidden around the map. Students zoom in within the map to the location suggested by the clue. There are little balloons located all over the map. If students struggle to find the location, they can click the “show location” button at the bottom. At the bottom of the page, there is a white box that holds clues. When students reach a location, they are given a math challenge to complete.
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
Math Interactives (gr. 3-6) A wide variety of games that teach skills and problem solving
HoodaMath (Gr 3-12) Spatial thinking , logic and arithmetic games. Numerous levels so all level students can work at their readiness stage.
Stop the clone by figuring out the rule that changes the number when it passes through the machine.
Free Training
Tutorial - A long list of free online math games. Teachers can select games
and create their own specific math lesson.
SumDogMath
- 100 Numeracy topics at ten
levels. Teachers can upload their class list. Ability to customize specific
math such as add numbers up to five, ordering numbers up to 20. Students can
log in and save scores. Audio can be distracting for some students (turn it off
in the Talent Game activity if that is the case) as can the time pressure.
CS Unplugged (gr. 4-10) A collection of free learning activities that teach
computer science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons, and allows students to move.
Dunk Tank: Mean, Median, Mode & Range (gr. 5-8) Dunk Tank is a math-themed game show. Using a combination of video and interactive gaming, each program addresses a single topic. Other Dunk Tank episodes include: Venn Diagrams; Area of Squares & Rectangles; Ratio & Proportion; Fractions, Decimals & Percents; Liquid Volume; and Circles
Skill Builders K -5
Pyramid Panic (gr 4-8) Apply increasingly-complex rules of geometry to free an imprisoned Mummy
Point out the View - figure out what a structure looks like from different view points. Good spatial thinking game.
Easy version of Graph Mole.
Learn to plot points on the coordinate plane for the first time
Medium version of Graph Mole.
Practice or review plotting points on the coordinate plane
Point graphing expert?
Hard version of Graph Mole. Match arcade wits with the mole
Line Gem 1 game. Learn to draw linear equations by finding points
Block Copy Replicate 3 demensional block constructions . Spatial thinking.
Robo Packer Shape puzzles that involve transformation like tangrams.
Harcourt Games K - 8 Visual and manipulative problems solving
Transformation Golf rotate golf balls to get to the holes
Math Playground (Gr. 4-8) Multiplication, fractions, percents, pre-algebra, algebra
vmathlive.com (1-4)
allows students as young as first grade to practice their math
skills in "friendly" competition with students all over the world.
Students bring up the math games and play them with students from
different countries. There is a map that shows in real time the
students' locations.
Airmadillos (gr 4-6) Angle recognition by virtually flying paper airplanes
Angle Estimation (gr 4-6) Progress through the game by estimating angles
Banana Angles Angle estimation game
Math by Design encourages students to problem solve and think critically as they encounter unique geometry and measurement challenges. Students are introduced to the TRC Architectural firm as junior architects who are commissioned to build environments by working through a series of mathematical tasks. Students may build two environments: Flossville Town Park and Windjammer Environmental Center. Both are rich with interactives and online hints to help students refine and build upon their knowledge of geometry and measurement. Extensive educator resources provide valuable assistance for teachers to seamlessly integrate Math by Design into classroom instruction.
Rounding Master (gr. 2-5) Rounding off game in a Who Wants to be A Millionaire format
Estimation Valley Golf (gr 4-8) Estimation of large numbers in Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Players will need to round-off and estimate problems with large numbers.
Ice, Ice, Maybe Fast ( gr. 3-6) Estimation with subtraction, multiplication and division
Home Run Derby Math ( gr 4-8) Estimation of large numbers in Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Players will need to round-off and estimate problems with large numbers.
Maximum Capacity (gr 2-4) In Maximum Capacity, you play the role of an elevator attendant who must bring as many gorillas as possible to the eighth floor for the annual Gorilla's Ball at the Jungle Hotel
Tony's Fraction Pizza Shop (gr 4-6) Equivalent fractions in a pizza shop ordering challenge.
Fraction Junction (gr 4 - 7) Compare fractions with origami.
Numberline Battleship Estimation game for decimals, fractions, whole numbers, and measurementProbability Fair (gr 5-8) Students will learn the practical application of the concept of probability by playing carnival games.
Algebra Meltdown ( gr. 5-8) Solve linear equations to guide atoms through the reactor.
Save Our Dumb Planet ( gr 4-8) Use Linear, quadratic and cubic flightpath equations
Card Sharks (5-8) Probability came from the same named TV show
Factorization Forest (gr 5-8) prime factoring game
Statistics Games mean, mode, median, graphing tools, data interpretation ...
Middle School
Kosjourney (gr. 6-8)Interactive math game and teacher supplement
What is an algorithm? Try the Swap Puzzle gr 7-12
Banana Hunt Angle Measurement Students
are given a degree measurement and have to estimate where to move the
monkey so that it is as close to the measurement as possible. The closer
they are, the more bananas they are given as a reward.
Medium version of Graph Mole. Practice or review plotting points on the coordinate plane
Point graphing expert?
Hard version of Graph Mole. Match arcade wits with the mole
Line Gem 1 game. Learn to draw linear equations by finding points
Math Snacks Educational animations, mini–games, and interactive
tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts.
Math is Fun explains math concepts in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.
HoodaMath (Gr 3-12) Spatial thinking , logic and arithmetic games. Numerous levels so all level students can work at their readiness stage.
Math Trail
students to explore virtual trails that lead to a variety of locations
connected by a theme. Along the way, students put their math and
geography skills to the test. The trail list currently has eight trails
to choose from. In each trail, math questions are
hidden around the map. Students zoom in within the map to the location
suggested by the clue. There are little balloons located all over the
map. If students struggle to find the location, they can click the
“show location” button at the bottom. At the bottom of the page, there
is a white box that holds clues. When students reach a location, they
are given a math challenge to complete.
Rounding and Estimating Game
13 Rounding Games
Factors & Multiples Game
Algebra Games and Simulations
Order of Operations Jeopardy
Fractions, Decimals, Percents
Data Games is a web application that
embeds simple games in a data analysis environment. Students play a game which
generates data that students analyze to improve their strategies. For each game and activity, there are short videos
for students introducing the game, a video for teachers explaining the
mathematics and pedagogy, a student worksheet, and teacher guidelines
that correlate the activity to the Common Core State Standards for
Mathematics.
Algebra vs. the Cockroaches gr. 5-8 Find the y intercept
Practical Money Skills hosts a series of eight online games designed to teach students some money management skills. One of the games that is timely considering that the Super Bowl is just a few days away is Financial Football. Financial Football has students answer questions about budgets, savings, and spending to move their football teams down the field against another team. The games use real NFL team logos. Financial Football takes at least twenty minutes to play.
Gymnasium for the Brain This is a nice site for educational games/activities to help stimulate the brain. Ideally, this site is geared toward helping students solve math problems but there is much more, such as: puzzles, patterns, etc.
Mangahigh ( gr 4-12) creates exceptionally high-quality, game-based learning resources to help Primary and Secondary students reinforce their Mathematics skills in a way that is both fun and engaging. ( example games: factoring, linear equations, percents, angular measurement... ) In addition to all the great resources, the service includes assessment and analytical tools that enable teachers to monitor the progress of individual students. Best of all, these activities also work great on an Interactive Whiteboard
Math by Design encourages students to problem solve and think critically as they encounter unique geometry and measurement challenges. Students are introduced to the TRC Architectural firm as junior architects who are commissioned to build environments by working through a series of mathematical tasks. Students may build two environments: Flossville Town Park and Windjammer Environmental Center. Both are rich with interactives and online hints to help students refine and build upon their knowledge of geometry and measurement. Extensive educator resources provide valuable assistance for teachers to seamlessly integrate Math by Design into classroom instruction.
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
CS Unplugged (gr. 4-10) A collection of free learning activities that teach
computer science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons, and allows students to move.
Dunk Tank: Mean, Median, Mode & Range (gr. 5-8) Dunk Tank is a math-themed game show. Using a combination of video and interactive gaming, each program addresses a single topic. Other Dunk Tank episodes include: Venn Diagrams; Area of Squares & Rectangles; Ratio & Proportion; Fractions, Decimals & Percents; Liquid Volume; and Circles
Pyramid Panic (gr 4-8) Apply increasingly-complex rules of geometry to free an imprisoned Mummy
Harcourt Games K - 8 Visual and manipulative problems solving
Math Playground (Gr. 4-8) Multiplication, fractions, percents, pre-algebra, algebra
Airmadillos (gr 4-6) Angle recognition by virtually flying paper airplanes
Angle Estimation (gr 4-6) Progress through the game by estimating angles
Banana Angles Angle estimation game
Home Run Derby Math ( gr 4-8) Estimation of large numbers in Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Players will need to round-off and estimate problems with large numbers.
Estimation Valley Golf (gr 4-8) Estimation of large numbers in Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Players will need to round-off and estimate problems with large numbers.
Stock the Shelves (gr 3-5) Coordinate Grid Game in a store setting
Probability Fair (gr 5-8) Students will learn the practical application of the concept of probability by playing carnival games.
Statistics Games mean, mode, median, graphing tools, data interpretation ...
Algebra Meltdown ( gr. 5-8) Solve linear equations to guide atoms through the reactor.
Algebra vs. the Cockroaches Linear equation game
Weigh the Wangdoodles algebraic thinking
Line Gem 1 gr 7-10 How many gems can your dragon get? Choose an equation for him to fly and see.
Save Our Dumb Planet ( gr 4-8) Use Linear, quadratic and cubic flightpath equations
Card Sharks (5-8) Probability came from the same named TV show
Clever Games for Clever People – Offline games that you can make.
Factorization Forest (gr 5-8) prime factoring game
High School
Mangahigh ( gr 4-12) creates exceptionally high-quality, game-based learning resources to help Primary and Secondary students reinforce their Mathematics skills in a way that is both fun and engaging. ( example games: factoring, linear equations, percents, angular measurement... ) In addition to all the great resources, the service includes assessment and analytical tools that enable teachers to monitor the progress of individual students. Best of all, these activities also work great on an Interactive Whiteboard
What is an algorithm? Try the Swap Puzzle gr 7-12
CS Unplugged (gr. 4-10) A collection of free learning activities that teach
computer science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons, and allows students to move.
HoodaMath (Gr 3-12) Spatial thinking , logic and arithmetic games. Numerous levels so all level students can work at their readiness stage.
Data Games is a web application that
embeds simple games in a data analysis environment. Students play a game which
generates data that students analyze to improve their strategies. For each game and activity, there are short videos
for students introducing the game, a video for teachers explaining the
mathematics and pedagogy, a student worksheet, and teacher guidelines
that correlate the activity to the Common Core State Standards for
Mathematics.
Practical Money Skills hosts
a series of eight online games designed to teach students some money
management skills. One of the games that is timely considering that the
Super Bowl is just a few days away is Financial Football.
Financial Football has students answer questions about budgets,
savings, and spending to move their football teams down the field
against another team. The games use real NFL team logos. Financial
Football takes at least twenty minutes to play.
Math is Fun explains math concepts in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.
Factorization Forest (gr 5-8) prime factoring game
Zoo Designer (gr 4-6) area and perimeter challenge game
Pyramid Panic Apply increasingly-complex rules of geometry to free an imprisoned Mummy
Ice Cream Shop (gr 4-6) Challenging converting improper fractions to mixed numbers
Oder Ops (gr 5-8) Order of operations game
1940s House: Making a Connection between WWII and Rationing (5-7)
Through
viewing and discussion of the video and investigation of the Web
resources, students will develop a deeper understanding of rationing and
the mathematics needed in a WWII household.
Interactive Puzzles:
Includes various difficulty levels. Good challenges for spatial and pattern problem solving.
Interactive Games: Games keep track of responses. Games include fractions, estimation, patterns, linear functions, geometry, ... http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/assessments/
Math Playground – K-6 http://www.mathplayground.com Math Playground is a mathematics learning site for students in grades K - 6. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have fun!
Math Games for 1-6- Wide range of topics from real world to skill builders
A+ Math K-6
Can You Fill It? (3-8)Players estimate the volume of different sized containers by trying to fill them with water using the fewest number of pots.
Fun 4 the Brain
MathBits: Math Games and Activities pre-algebra and algebra Jeopardy Style Games
Education.com (K-12) Math Activities and Games - Activities and games for the classroom, from pre-school through high school. Browse by grade level, or search for a topic.
Coordinate Maze Game This game allows users to practice their point plotting skills by having them move a robot through a mine field to a target location. Moves are accomplished by specifying the coordinates of the new location. In order to win, the path must not cross a mine. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/pmaze/how.html
Hurkle Combines coordinate geometry, a guessing game, and deduction to find coordinates
Bitesize math gr 7-11. This interactive site has students
practicing all sorts of measurements including two-dimensional shapes,
three-dimensional shapes. angles, time, and symmetry. Included is a
short video for each topic, a way to read about it, and a brief quiz.
The videos include games that are engaging, the text explanations are
very understandable, and a multiple choice quiz accompanies each topic.
Multiflyer Multiplication Game.
Multiplication games
TimezAttack A game for primary students to learn their times tables. A good program for your students to use at home.
Suitable for: Grade 1-5
Cut the Knot (3-12) logic and spatial thinking games
Free Training Tutorial - A long list of free online math games. Teachers can select games and create their own specific math lesson.
SumDogMath
- 100 Numeracy topics at ten levels. Teachers can upload their class
list. Ability to customize specific math such as add numbers up to five,
ordering numbers up to 20. Students can log in and save scores. Audio
can be distracting for some students (turn it off in the Talent Game
activity if that is the case) as can the time pressure.
PBS Kids Games K-3
Train Trouble algebraic thinking
How fast is the train moving to allow Herman and Sheila to each escape the tunnel?
Parachute Drag - http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/23644/
Explore the effects of mass, displacement, and drag on the low functioning of a parachute in this simulation.
STEM Collaborative Suitable for: Year 7-12
Your gateway to four captivating online adventures that put the fun in
math and help middle school students make real world math connections.
These technology-rich approaches bring excitement to the classroom and
offer a fresh, new way to engage students in active learning. Each STEM
learning adventure is aligned to standards and features rich digital
media including virtual environments, simulations, videos and
interactive activities. Comes with thousands of teacher resources and
ideas.
Save the Zogs Linear equation game. It begins by identifying linear equations to capture the Zogs and progresses to create your own equations.
Transtar ( gr 4-8) Play with reflections, rotations, enlargements and translations.
Social Studies/History/Geography
Playing History (4-12) is a collection of more than 100 games related to topics in US and World History as well as civics and geography. The games come from a variety of sources across the web. Feedback on every game and suggestions for future additions are welcomed by the hosts of the site. Visitors to Playing History can search for games by using the tag cloud, by using the search box, or just browse through the entire list.
Lewis and Clark 5-8 Travel along with the Corps of Discovery
Engaging Congress
Engaging Congress is a series of game-based learning activities that explores the basic tenets of representative government and the challenges that it faces in contemporary society. Primary source documents are used to examine the history and evolution of issues that confront Congress today.
Fake It To Make It is an online game about fake news
Pursued tests your ability to use clues around you to escape your captors. Work through different levels and have fun exploring locations from around the world.
GameOn World is played in a manner similar to Kahoot. The teacher projects the game questions on a screen and students reply from their phones, tablets, or laptops. One of the convenient features of GameOn World is that you don't have to create an account in order to start playing fun geography and history games with your students. In GameOn World the teacher selects a game category (cities, places, and timeline are a few of the categories) and starts the game
GeoGuessr is a fun map-based game where students get virtually “dropped” somewhere in the world, and must explore the landscape around them through Google Street View to determine where in the world they are. When they’ve determined where in the world they are, they click on the world map to make a guess. Students will be shown the actual location they are, as well as how far off they were from the correct location.
Seterra is a service that offers interactive geography games in more than thirty languages.
Geoguessr You are dropped into random locations and you have to use clues around you to guess your location by exploring using Google Street View.
Historical Scene Investigation The
Historical Scene Investigation Project (HSI) was designed for social
studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing
primary sources into their classroom.
Colonial America Games that teach and review colonial life
Saints and Sinners is a new National Geographic game where players role-play being a Pilgrim. It’s has some elements of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” game, along with other “role-playing” features.
Mission US Grade 5 - Year 9
Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history. The first game in a planned series, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?”
explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists
and Patriots in 1770 Boston. This website provides information and
materials to support the use of Mission 1 in your classroom.
Resources: Mission US Classroom Guide - http://www.mission-us.org/pages/classroom-guide
Mission 2 Flight for Freedom players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year-old slave in Kentucky. As they navigate her escape and journey to Ohio, they discover that life in the “free” North is dangerous and difficult. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act brings disaster. Will Lucy ever truly be free?
Mission 3A Cheyenne Odyssey, the third interactive game in the Mission US series of digital role-playing games created to engage middle school students in the exploration of United States history. The game engages students as they take on the role of a 12-year-old Northern Cheyenne boy in the 1860s. As they play A Cheyenne Odyssey, students gain insight and understanding of westward expansion and its impact on America’s native peoples, the economy, the landscape and the environment.
Mission U.S. Depression. has created some excellent interactives and some bad ones. Their newest one is on the Depression.
Mission U.S. City of Immigrants players navigate New York’s Lower East Side as Lena, a young Jewish immigrant from Russia. Trying to save money to bring her parents to America, she works long hours in a factory for little money. Should she go on strike to protest conditions, and risk losing her job?
Minigames Developing Global and Cultural Awareness The League of Extraordinary Bloggers
is a team of bloggers from China, japan, south Korea and Vietnam who
are traveling through Asia to track down a criminal mastermind who has
been stealing cultural landmarks and objects. Students can join these
bloggers by taking on the role of Agent X.
- The Redistricting Game (gr. 8 - 12) is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting.
The ReDistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower students around the issue of political redistricting. The game provides a basic introduction to the redistricting system, allows players to explore the ways in which abuses can undermine the system, and provides information about reform initiatives, including a playable version of the Tanner Reform Bill to demonstrate the ways in which the system might be made more consistent with tenets of good governance. In addition, the website for the game provides a wealth of information about redistricting in every state, along with hands-on opportunities for civic engagement and political action.
Who Am I? A History Mystery is a fun and challenging activity from the Smithsonian's The Price of Freedom online exhibit. Who Am I? presents players with six historical characters that they have to identify using the text and image clues provided. To solve the mystery players have to match the visual artifacts to each character.
Interactive map site gr 5- 8 reviews the geographic features and regions of the United States and includes a game for students to locate individual states. Following are various interactive games that follow the history of the United States geographically, including information about the Native American tribes, the colonizing of North America, and the expansion of the United States.
PlayBrighter (gr. 1-8) A user starts out by creating a "Peeble" (avatar), then going on a variety of educational missions. These missions focus on different subject areas such as: Geography, Economics, History, and more. As a person completes a mission more and more of them become "unlocked" and they are able to purchase items/buildings.
Pursued. Using the Street View feature of Google Maps, the makers of Pursued have created a way for you to trains kids to ask questions, use visual clues, think spatially, become comfortable with geography tools, create mental maps, and solve problems all while having a good time. In each level, you "wake up" in the middle of a street in an unknown location. Using the zoom and move features of Street View, you must figure out where you are from the clues around you. There might be an obvious landmark, perhaps the street names provide a clue, maybe billboards or the ads on buses might help you figure out the problem.
The Curfew
The Curfew is an adventure web-game. Set in 2027 in the heart of an authoritarian security state, The Curfew
could be described as a miniature Canterbury Tales set in a
not-so-distant future, where citizens must abide by government security
measures and 'sub citizens' are placed under curfew at night. The player must navigate this complex political world and engage with
the characters they meet along the way to work out who they should trust
in order to gain freedom. Choose wisely and you could change the course of history. Choose poorly, and it'll be changed for you.
Sorting Out Notions About
Race
"What is race?" teacher Jill Spain asked her sixth-graders at the
beginning of their Holocaust unit. Not surprisingly, they found it hard to answer
the question, and Spain saw that she needed to
change course. "I flipped on my Smart Board and brought up the section called
'Sorting
People'. It provides photos of 20 people. The objective is to look at them and
sort them into racial categories. ... All 22 of my students were confident that
they could complete this task with ease. What happened next was both shocking and
powerful."
September 12th: A Toy World: The rules are simple: you can choose to shoot rockets at terrorists, or not. But be warned, missing civilians is virtually impossible. The purpose of this newsgame is to visually prove that the U.S. War on Terror is destined to failure, as every civilian killed results in dozens of terrorists created. It has been shown all over the world as a teaching tool against violence.
PeaceMaker is a serious game where you play as either government officials from Palestine, or Israel. Then, you make the discussions that decides whether your country fails or prospers.
Communities and Community Helpers GamesGeography Skills Geography Games Current
Events Ancient Civilizations Environment U.S. History U.S.
Government
World Geography Games features 51 geography games. The games are simple identification games in which students are shown the name of a country, state, city, or geographic feature and then have to click on the correct locations.
Reach
the World produces good online games for geography students.
GeoGames
from Reach the World
feature an interactive map which students drag and drop onto different
elements. The beginner level games asks has student place continents and
the poles in the correct position. As the games levels progress
students have to place countries and capitals in their proper positions.
In the Build
Planet Earth section students have to place continents,
oceans, mountains, and rivers in their proper positions.
Make a Map (gr. 3-6) Students follow online directions to create a storyteller's map and compare to the original.
Longitude and Latitude Games (gr. 3-6) A Collection of games
Get Lost Compass Game (gr. 3-6) Good practice to point out the north is not always up on a compass.
Geospy
You take the role of a special agent, working against the clock as you
try to locate various parts of the globe. As you play, you are given
three different tasks (or games) to complete.
Outline Maps Games offers a free set of geography games. The site contains games about Africa, South America, Europe, the United States, and the world. There are two basic types of games on the site. The first type, "find by name," displays a state, country, or city name and you have to click the map to identify that place. The second type of game, "find by feature," highlights a location and you have to type the name of the highlighted location.
Reading a Map (gr. 2-4)
GeoGames Helps students learn the location of countries More country identification games
8 Geo Games
Seterra is a large
collection of free geography quizzes. The there are dozens of quizzes
covering everything from country identification to identifying physical
geographic features like mountains, rivers, and seas. There are seven
categories of quizzes arranged by continent. Seterra's quizzes are
available in sixteen languages.
Seterra's quizzes available as a free download for Windows computers. The games can
also be played in an online version. If you download the quizzes you can
keep track of your scores on your computer. The online version of the
games do not allow you to keep track of your scores.
Middle and High School
Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads gr 6- 12 is an educational game based on the traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution & the Civil War, which debuted at the National Constitution Center in June 2005. It invites them to learn about Lincoln’s leadership by exploring the political choices he made. An animated Lincoln introduces a situation, asks for advice and prompts students to decide the issue for themselves, before learning the actual outcome. At the end of the game, students discover how frequently they predicted Lincoln’s actions. A Resources Page, keyed to each chapter of Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads, provides links to relevant websites on Lincoln and the Civil War, permitting students to explore issues in more depth.Click Here to Access Free Gam
Outline Maps Games offers a free set of geography games. The site contains games about Africa, South America, Europe, the United States, and the world. There are two basic types of games on the site. The first type, "find by name," displays a state, country, or city name and you have to click the map to identify that place. The second type of game, "find by feature," highlights a location and you have to type the name of the highlighted location.
Arising from Injustice, an alternate reality game focused on the Japanese experience of internment camps during World War II, students are asked to investigate why Dr. Alice Sasaki had been found unconscious in her lab. To wake her from her coma, players must access her high-tech Memory History Cognition device and reconstruct her memories as a Japanese American in the 1940s. The modular, web-based narrative relates the story of the Japanese Americans with eclectic historical documents and media, including pictures, letters, journals, videos, and audio. Players progress from Pearl Harbor to postwar resettlement by solving puzzles, following clues, carrying out assignments, and sharing their findings on a group discussion board. Players evaluate and analyze primary documents to determine the social conditions that precipitated prejudice and discrimination against Japanese Americans. They also hone their media literacy skills by synthesizing their learning in collaborative media projects where they support their research with primary sources. All of these fit with Common Core standards. One of the most important lessons of the game is empathy. The game puts players in a situated learning environment where they must interact and empathize with various characters in order to succeed. To request this educational alternate reality game for your school, contact GameTrain Learning, the developer of Arising from Injustice.
Click Here for More Information About AR Game
That’s Your Right is a single or multiplayer digital card gamethat teaches students in middle school and high school about the first ten amendments of the US Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The game is integrated into the comprehensive multimedia Constitution curriculum at AnnenbergClassroom.org and is designed for play in the classroom. Students are dealt a hand of cards, with each card describing a different scenario that would positively or negatively affect their ability to leverage a relevant amendment from the Bill of Rights. If the amendment is correctly applied, students place an Amendment Token on the scenario card to win points, or conversely to take away points from their opponents. A series of videos about individual amendments reveals secret codes and upgrades to the in-game experience, allowing students to customize their game.
ARTé: Mecenas, in which students assume the role of a Medici and balance relationships with powerful city–states, merchant factions, and the Catholic Church or risk excommunication, exile, and bankruptcy. The game assesses the likelihood that students can recognize and match works of art but also understand the role of art given societal norms and the overall relevance to the people and policies of the period.
The interactive section of Econ Ed Link offers four pages of videos and games. The videos and games can be used as stand-alone activities or as part of lesson plan. For example, interactive game on developing good credit habits. Developing Good Credit Habits is a game appropriate for middle school and high school students. Students earn money by correctly answering questions about credit scores, interest rates, and spending practices. The purpose of the game is to purchase items and pay expenses without damaging your credit score.
Reading & Writing
Brain Boosters K-12
Reading and Writing - gr. 1-6 Paragraph correction, story prompts, card maker, figures of speech, ...
Scientific and Information Literacy Developed Through Gameplay
Vital Signs is a story-based literacy game that
has students take on the role of a medical director at a family clinic.
Students contend with the daily challenges of a doctor: seeing
patients, staying on top of community issues, and running an office.
Along the way, students need to consult their to-do list with tasks to
complete, including talking with staff to gather information, conducting
research on medical conditions, interacting with the public, and making
difficult decisions. The game has 12 episodes, each of which takes
about 20 to 30 minutes to play through. Each episode empowers students
to take on a realistic job role and act on their decisions while also
dealing with the consequences. To help them along, students can check their
cellphone, which has a to-do list, patient files, a medical handbook,
and a glossary. Students build literacy skills all along, and an
assessment at the end puts these skills to the test. Students must use
their text analysis and research skills, as well as deductive reasoning,
to solve problems and make decisions; they draft correspondences, such
as letters, emails, handouts, memos, reports, summaries, and
explanations of their medical decisions. Some assessments are instantly
scored, while others are open ended and sent to the teacher dashboard
for review.
Teach Your Monster to Read
is a fun game designed to help students improve the speed and accuracy
with which they recognize letters and sounds. The game has eight levels
(or islands as they're called in the game) each containing four
activities. Students play the game as a friendly monster avatar.
Free Online Games Develop ESL Students' Language Skills
Winged Sandals - Greek Mythology, great for finding out interesting facts, images, pictures and games.
Headline Clues from Michigan State University is a great activity. In the game, you’re shown the lead paragraph, but letters from two words in the headline are missing. Players have to use clues in the first paragraph to identify what the missing words should be. As you play the online version, you can ask for clues. One of the great things about using this game is that students can create their own with pen and paper and have classmates try to figure out the answers, as well as giving them clues if needed.
Cause and Effect (gr 2-4) Match the cause and effects
FoldingStory Website FoldingStory is a group storytelling game. Sign up to enter the fold and contribute to stories or simply read some finished stories.
Detective Notebook (K-5) students think about what they are reading and to answer questions that require inferencing.
Playfic It is a online community where members can create, play, and share in text based games
Word Games - (gr K-1)
Just 2 Words
is a fun free app where students solve for a two word phrase that
matches a set of pictures. With different degrees of challenges
Wordia a vocabulary resource that I initially reviewed last year, recently underwent a facelift. The new Wordia is much more student-friendly than the previous version of the service. Wordia now features word lists arranged by subject area and the age of students. Wordia now offers games based on the words in the word lists. Students and teachers now have the option to create their own word lists and videos to upload to Wordia.
Autotopsy Webstie Autotopsy is an innovative digital experience that challenges you to play the part of forensic crash investigator in order to unpick the story behind a multi-vehicle pile up. Part game, part narrative experiment offering interactive video content alongside character case studies.
Kaboose Language Arts Games (gr 1-2)
The Great Gatsby Game A game based on the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzeragld
Wordmaster is from the BBC. In it, you’re shown a sentence with a word missing (indicated by a blank). Then you have to click on an on-screen keyboard to type the correct word “hangman” style. You can ask for clues, and you’re competing against the clock. You can also choose various levels of difficulty, and the game has thousands of words. And after you’ve either guessed the correct word or the timer is up, you can have the sentence read to you.
Ad Game Examining advertisements
Murder Mysteries Suitable for: Grade 5 - Year 12
MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries ( gr 4 - 7) Solve mysteries, learn magic tricks.
Library Mystery Find sneaky, hard-to-discover clues!
A series of interactive murder mysteries made available by PBS.
Dark Tales: Edgar Allen Poe Murder Mysteries gr. 5 - 12 A dreadful murder and kidnapping has occurred in the Rue Morgue and only you can solve the dark crime! Follow the clues to find the killer and the missing family. Become the apprentice of the famed C. Auguste Dupin and solve the devious puzzles to find the hidden clues that will lead you to the monstrous murderer. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s most acclaimed murder mystery, Dark Tales: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder in the Rue Morgue is a fantastic Hidden Object game full of suspense and excitement.
English: Lord of the Flies An interpretation of William Golding's book.
Grammar of Doom Use English grammar and vocabulary to get through the rooms of the mystical Temple of Doomed Grammar.
Spell City vocabulary and spelling. It allows educators to create word lists that they can integrate into games to help students improve their skills. Also, there are lots of teacher resources to enjoy such as: videos, worksheets, printables, and more.
Civics: Social Awareness
Game Stimulating Productive Dialogue About Race and Ethnicity
Developed by a cultural anthropologist, the two-player Who Am I? Race Awareness Game is designed to stimulate a productive dialogue between adults/educators and children regarding the complex and sensitive issues of race and ethnicity in a multicultural world. In the game, one player selects a target picture of a real person; the other player then asks “yes or no” questions to figure out who was picked.
Race To Ratify is a brand-new game from iCivics – they unveiled it today.Race to Ratify drops you into 1787, where the ink is still drying on the new Constitution. Will it become the law of the land or will it fall into the dustbin of history? The fate of the young nation is in your hands! Dive deep into the heated national debate over the future of a radical new plan for American government. Travel across the 13 states to hear from a diverse and opinionated cast of characters and use what you have learned to influence others through the social media of the time… pamphlets.
Free Rice is the “granddaddy” of “cause-related” games. If you choose the correct definition of the word, the next word you’re given is “harder.” If you answer incorrectly, the next word is supposed to be “easier.” In addition, for every word you get correct, ten grains of rice are donated to an international aid agency. Free Rice recently expanded its game and now has questions related to grammar, geography, art, foreign language and math, too.
Spent: Spent asks players to consider what life would be like as a homeless person. The game puts you in the shoes of someone who has lost their life savings, and has you choose one of three low-paying jobs to see for yourself how quickly your money runs out.
World Freedom Atlas Map
World Hunger Map (Interactive)
G4C Toolkit
A toolkit for those interested in building games for social change.
Sorting Out Notions About Race
"What is race?" teacher Jill Spain asked her sixth-graders at the beginning of their Holocaust unit. Not surprisingly, they found it hard to answer the question, and Spain saw that she needed to change course. "I flipped on my Smart Board and brought up the section called 'Sorting People'. It provides photos of 20 people. The objective is to look at them and sort them into racial categories. ... All 22 of my students were confident that they could complete this task with ease. What happened next was both shocking and powerful."
3rd World Farmer: This game was originally created by students at the IT-University in Copenhagen in 2005. The player is put in control of an African farm and must struggle to keep family, crops, and livestock alive while conflict and a lack of resources work against them. The designers’ hope is that people will play and realize how precarious survival is for many in Africa, and then do what they can to improve the lives of poor people there.
Spent: (gr 7 - 12) Provocative, first-person look at poverty builds empathy
September 12th: A Toy World: The rules are simple: you can choose to shoot rockets at terrorists, or not. But be warned, missing civilians is virtually impossible. The purpose of this newsgame is to visually prove that the U.S. War on Terror is destined to failure, as every civilian killed results in dozens of terrorists created. It has been shown all over the world as a teaching tool against violence.
Citizen Science: Back to the Future meets the EPA in this game, where players travel back in time to investigate what led to the local lake’s pollution and what they can do to prevent it in the future. The game is meant to illustrate the social factors that contribute to environmental harm.
WeTopia: Such big names as Mattel, Clorox, and DeGeneres have lent their support to this game that’s like Farmville for a cause. Players build communities and accumulate "Joy" as a form of currency, which they can then donate in-game to real-life causes. When those causes reach 100% joy, the game’s developer donates real cash to the organization that was earned through player purchases and advertising revenue.
Sweatshop: Sweatshop takes things one step further by incorporating humor, albeit black, into its message. The game begins by showing you a factory floor filled with crying or injured children who make high-end sneakers. Then it guides you through a series of choices you must make as the factory manager. As you decide whether to give your workers a safe working environment or focus on your bottom line, hopefully you will begin to wonder what kind of conditions the clothes you’re wearing came from.
On the Ground Reporter: The first in the "On the Ground Reporter" series, this game brings players face to face with the shocking footage of hostilities in Darfur. The in-game objective is to find the truth and the story, but the overall goal is to expose people to the harsh realities of conflicts like that that just ended in Darfur.
Fate of the World: The whole world is in your hands. This award-winning game forces you to deal with crises like natural disasters and a growing global population. By playing through the different scenarios, players get a sense of the real challenges the world could face in the next few generations.
Art Games
Getty Games is a nice collection of art-based games produced by The Getty Museum for younger students to enjoy. There are four categories of games, each offering a subset of games. Getty Games also offers directions for a selection of offline activities.
Destination Modern Art - Interactive art activities for kids
ESL
Playfic It is a online community where members can create, play, and share in text based games
Free Online Video Games for ESL Students Here are some ways to use online video games with students as a language development activity as you explore new ways to engage students in English language learning activities that are easy to maneuver, engaging to do, and promote face-to-face conversation.
ESL Kids Flashcards
and games
Interesting Things for ESL Students Activities, games, songs, podcasts, lessons and more.
Everything ESL Games, podcasts, songs, lessons and more
Decorate This site is a fun way for ELL students to practice their understanding of household objects by shap and color as they must locate "Roger's" requests for items to be placed in his home.
3rd World Farmer Serious sim about global issues shows struggles of poverty