Jennifer Sterling
Learning Games
General Educational Games
Fun Brain - This site provides various
games. The games seemed to mostly be geared towards math and English. One of my favorite is the Plural Girls. The site also provides a teachers corner
which provides links to various resources.
Date
visited: 09/16/2009 http://www.funbrain.com/
Sheppard Software - This site
provides games for every subject. This
is a great way to get kids motivated to learn.
They can work on their skills in math, science, health, vocabulary and
the list goes on. It is important that
kids continue to remember things such as simple math facts and this is a great
way to keep them practicing.
Date
Visited: 09/16/2009 http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
The Problem Site - This site
not only provides a multitude of educational games but also has some other ones
throw in there as well. Most of the
other games are brain games. Most of the
games on this site are word games or math games.
Date
Visited: 09/16/2009 http://www.theproblemsite.com/games.asp
Language Arts
Edu
Place - This site provides
online grammar quizzes for kids’ grades 2 through 5. The questions mostly ask for you to pick the
right part of the sentence. This would
be a great tool to use in addition to what is taught in the classroom or could
even be counted as a real quiz.
Date
Visited: 09/16/2009 http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/
Homework Hub –
This site provides many different types of grammar games that work on prefixes,
suffixes, spelling, and more. It would
be great to use for elementary school age children who have free time. The game
“Edit Dan’s Copy” would be a great reinforcement in what student may learn in
class about basic grammar rules.
Date Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/grammar.htm
Star Fall - This site
provides games for kids that are just starting to read or maybe need a little
extra help. The activities start off
with just hearing each of the letters and continue to reading stories on their
own. Students that are more independent
readers that get stuck on a word can click on that word and hear what the word
is then continue with the story. This
would be great for kids to use at home to brush up on reading skills or during
any free time.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.starfall.com/
Math
A Plus Math - This site
would be great for lower elementary school aged kids. The games are set up to work on addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Each game is a little different having students playing matho, hidden picture, concentration or planet blaster. This would be a great tool to use during free
time or with any kids that may be having problems with their math facts.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html
Cool Math 4 Kids – This site is
interesting in that it provides games from many upper elementary and middle
school aged kids but also give them the ability to review what the game is
testing. This would be a great use of
class time to review many math concepts.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
Math Playground – This site
has games that are a little more advanced and would work well for upper
elementary to middle school aged students.
The games are more evolved and cover many things including algebra,
weigh and measures, percent, fractions and much more.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html
Science
For Kids Only - This site provides
a few science related games in which students are asked questions that they
must get correct before continuing. The game,
“What on Earth?” is set up much like Jeopardy.
It would be great for students to play as a class to review for a
test. These questions are geared toward
upper elementary grades.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/games/
Kaboose - This site
provides games more geared toward elementary school aged students. The games are related mostly to animals but
do continue fun games on other science topics as well. This would be a great tool to use when kids
are inside on a rainy day for recess.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://resources.kaboose.com/games/science.html
Science for Kids –
This site provides a variety of games from being science related to just plain
fun. The game I would really like to
recommend is “Chemical Concentration” in which kids can practice matching up the
elements to their abbreviation. This
would be great practice for students just starting to be exposed to the
periodic table.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/gamezone/
Social Studies
Kids Past – This website
contains history games relating to upper elementary to middle school. Students have to answer questions correctly
in order to be successful in the game.
This would be a great tool to use to review for a test because the
questions are specific.
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.kidspast.com/history-games/index.php
Primary Games - This
site contains games mostly geared towards geography elements. Students can find out where places are,
practice identifying flags, label the
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.primarygames.com/social_studies.htm
Social
Studies for Kids – This site has all the games relating to social studies that
you would ever want to find. These games
are listed in categories such as culture, economics, geography, history and
Date
Visited: 09/27/2009 http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/funandgames.htm