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Learning Game Web Sites

Harcourt Math Games1| Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Games | Interactive Mathematics2 | Create a Graph | Tumblebooks 5 | Math Zapper 4

Funbrain* | Invention at Play | Classbrain* | Quia* | Funschool* | Growing with Technology | aplusmath | Sheppard Software Games 3

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For teachers

Interactive simulations and activities

 

Game lists

2nd Grade: Time and Money

School Polls and Surveys

Fun Broadcast Poll

Math Games

Beat the Clock Addition: three levels of play challenge let you practice your addition skills. (grades 1-5)

Beat the Clock Subtraction: how many subtraction problems can you solve in one minute?

Beat the Clock Multiplication: challenge yourself to solve as many math problems as you can in one-minute or less. (grades 3+)

Beat the Clock Division: test your skills with single or double-digit divisors. (grades 4+)

Deduction: practice your deduction skills with this challenging logic game. (grades 4+)

Tangrams: this inventive, open source flash activity by Andrew Lankin provides many tangram puzzles to solve. This is the best tangram game I found. (grades 1+).

Magic Square: you will be challenged to solve several magic square puzzles.(grades 3+)

My Random Machine: this is a teacher-directed activity that has you explore the concept of random numbers. (grades 3-4)

Language Arts Games

Apple Word Catch: catch the apples with words on them and avoid those without. This is a customized game based on the common word list for Rancho students going into the first grade. Game runs about 5 minutes.(grade K-1) If this game is too fast, try this version.

Apple Numbers and Colors Catch: catch the apples with words on them and avoid those without. This is a customized game based on the common word list for Rancho students going into the first grade. Game time is about 5 minutes. (grade K-1)

Sound Memory Game: How long can you play this game until you cannot repeat the order of the chirping birds? (grades K-2)

Just for Fun or a Rainy Day Recess

Rancho Online Puzzles

Playtime: easy | medium | difficult | challenge | oh no!

Mosaic Madness: easy | medium | difficult | challenge | oh no!

More Just-for-Fun Games

Sketchpad: sketch you drawing online and then print if you want. Save your drawing and watch it play back with the click of a mouse.

Pegs: Jump over pegs and try to leave just one peg in this game of strategy and planning.

Deliville: Ever wonder what your neighborhood would be like if all the streets were named after deli foods? You probably have not, but here is your chance to find out where you might live in Deliville. Move the red pin to where your home is on the map and then slide the fader to show your street name in Deliville. If your house isn't on the map, just choose any place.

Big 6 Games

Teachers: go to the teacher's guide for a lesson plan and supporting materials.

Put together the Big 6 jigsaw puzzle: put this puzzle together to help become familiar with the Big 6 research method. 167k (all ages) Try also the timed version.

Big 6 Quiz: students will learn about the big 6 by completing this challenging online quiz. Let them take it a few times if necessary to get all question correct. (grades 3-5)

Footnotes

1 To use all of the Harcourt games, you will need to log in to their activities site. When asked to enter an author's name as a password, type "johnson". For some of the games, you will need the Shockwave Player. On a PC, Shockwave Player should self-install.

2 This is the National Library of Virtual Mathematics. These are java games organized by grade level and math standards. This is an outstanding site that includes integrated lessons and instructions. Games include virtual geoboards, pentominoes, bar charts, base blocks, pattern blocks and other virtual manipulatives. Windows XP users may need to install the free, Java Virtual Machine.

3 Site features Social Studies, Science and Vocabulary games using Flash. This site includes an excellent USA geography game. Many games have several levels of difficulty from which to choose.

4 Site requires class setup for logins and passwords. Available 8:00 AM to 3:15 PM only. After school hours require subscription.

5 Free to California school and home users through June 15, 2006. These are animated books that include spoken, highlighted text and other features.

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About the Learning Games Page

This learning games page is designed to help meet the needs for basic school software at a great price-- free. Having our own page provides us with several benefits. First of all, there are no distracting ads or pop-ups. The games are in one place, easily accessible from our web page with one click. We can collect games that are applicable to our students. The games are short and organized to be easily integrated into Math or Language Arts centers. Most importantly, we can customize existing games or develop new games from scratch that meet the special needs of our students.

Learning Games Players and Plugins

Macromedia Flash 5.0+
Java Virtual Machine