Students
and Families: Exercise your brain with the these sites.
WARNING! Repeated use could
result in larger, stronger brains! (Many
activities require free Shockwave and/or Flash players)
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Academic Skill Builders - research-based and standards-aligned educational games. This is our current FAVORITE math fact site! Use the links below or try out the other games.
Race against others: Grand Prix Multiplication ~ Drag Race Division
Race against the clock: Meteor Multiplication ~ Demolition Division
Ann and Addem's Dartboard Game (starts out easy, but quickly gets more difficult with each level)
BBC Schools Bitesize Index - Choose any activities from the Index or go to these specific pages: Number Activities || Shapes, Space and Measure || Handling Data || Science
EduPlace Brain Teasers - New Math Brain Teasers every Wednesday for Grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8.
Match
the Phrase - Match the ten phrases on the left with their more common
partners on the right.
Arukone - Create a path to each matching number without crossing. (Choose level above game) Color Wars - Keep your opponent from making the last move! |
Lawrence Hall of Science - Play - Play online games, download activities to do at home, and more cool stuff. Check out: Family Math-Balloon Ride || Overlapping Shapes || Black Box Laser || Human Body-Mr. Bones || Shongo Networks
Science: FossWeb 3-6 Modules - Magnetism & Electricity || Models and Designs || Human Body || Levers and Pulleys || Food and Nutrition || Earth Materials || Water || Mixtures and Solutions || Measurement || Physics of Sound || Solar Energy || Landforms || Structures of Life || Variables || Ideas and Inventions || Environments
Maggie's Learning Adventures - interactive games on English grammar, Spanish, math and Science. Don't miss Maggie's Earth Adventures - Practice your memorization skills and improve your science vocabulary while you play in English or Spanish!
Geosense - Online geography game - try to locate a city on map. Points are awarded that reflect the speed and accuracy of each guess. You may choose USA or World. A screen name is required simply to identify you to other players and keep track of high scores - no other information is requested. Can't be used on a Mac running Explorer at this time, so this is for use at home.
13
Ways of Looking at a Half (Fractions) |
Send
in the Trolls |
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Inchworm,
Inchworm 2, and Frog Jumpin
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Chomp
Challenge - Enter the secret chamber of mystery & puzzles.
Whizzball! - Got what it takes? Test your whiz skills.
Pentominoes - Fill the rectangle with the pentominoes. You can flip and rotate the pieces.
Children's Museum: Bones Exhibit Games from Children's Museum of Indianapolis
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Multiflyer - Multiplication game - As the pilot of a space ship, you must save the solar system.
Fripple Place - Examine the clues to crack the Case of the Empty Fripple House! Synthesize information and practice deductive reasoning to place the Fripples in the right rooms.
MindTwister Web - Play the game that adds a hilarious twist to critical thinking! Sharpen your problem solving skills as you compete against another player or play alone!
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Book-Pop
Books -
created by author Stephen Cosgrove, offers a variety of
online and printable books for elementary students.
Dots Game - Can you make more boxes than the computer does?
| Dinosaur Playground - Featuring: Dinosaur Puzzle || Dinosaur Bones,|| Dinosaur Memory || Dinosaur Slide Game (from Walking with Dinosaurs) Beast Playground - Featuring: Skeleton Jigsaws || Color and Camouflage || Burying Bodies || Making Fossils || Footprints Game || (from Walking with Beasts - featuring the beasts that lived after the dinosaurs) from Roller Coaster Games - dozens of educational activities from ABC Online (Australia) (use this index from home to try other activities) |
Word
Search Puzzles and Fun & Games (from NASA
Observatorium)
Brain Teasers - a whole page of Brain Teasers to try!
Games & Puzzles from Jefferson Lab (Games require a JavaScript enabled browser.)
Play the original Tic-Tac-Toe against the computer or try Dime Tic-Tac-Toe, a new version for 2 players.
PROBLEM
SOLVING: |
MEMORY: COMPUTATION: |
from CoolMath4Kids - Math
Games (use this index from home to try other activities) |
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HappyBrain.com - Interactive puzzles to exercise your brain.
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Set Game - Problem solving game - New puzzle challenge daily.
Current Events: Time for Kids || Scholastic Kids
Other Resources: Washington || Sasquatch || Math || 4th Grade Harcourt Reading
Risk
Watch Games for Kids - Safety activities for readers and
nonreaders.
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Exploring
the Secret Life of Trees -
Outstanding interactive tutorial developed by the University
of Illinois
Extension.
Check out their other
Just
for Kids learning activities!
Book Adventure - Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Students need to set up an account so parent supervision is advised when the account is set up.
How Stuff Works - How Stuff Works is a great place to learn about the way all kinds of things function in the world. Learn about everything from guitars, to cruise missiles to the cells in your own body!
Powers of Ten - Soar through space starting at 10 million light years away from the Milky Way down through to a single proton in Florida in decreasing powers of ten (orders of magnitude). Explore the use of exponential notation to understand and compare the size of things in our world and the universe.
(4th graders are working on keying at least 15-25 WPM by the end of the school year!)
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Starfall -
OUTSTANDING FUN reading activities for beginning and early readers
PrimaryGames.com -
There are popups, however there are many educational activities
for primary.
Fripple
Guides - Use verbal and visual descriptions — and
logic — to select the correct Fripple guides for each
visitor to Toony's Lagoon.
Edmo
and Houdini - Move Edmo and Houdini around the doghouse
by using and learning prepositions: in, out, over, under,
on, off, and behind.
Make-A-Story -
Choose characters, places, and actions to create a story starring
Millie, Harley, Dorothy, or Sammy. Hear your stories read aloud!
Read-A-Rhyme -
Recognize rhyming sounds and words by creating zany new versions
of well-known rhymes. Rub-a-dub-dub, three kids in a shrub?
Mouse
House - Create your own designs with triangles, circles,
squares, and rectangles — or follow blueprints — to
help Frank Lloyd Mouse build his house!
Activities
for Units of Study
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Ocean Unit Activities Information: Interactive
Puzzles:
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Dinosaur Unit Activities
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Rainforest Unit Activities
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Zoo Unit Activities (Find more games from the San Diego Zoo)
Build-A-Beast - Build a beast for the proper habitat to win the game Untamed Trivia - Animal trivia questions Puzzled Pachyderm? - Drag and drop the pieces to complete the elephant puzzle. Jungle Bridge - Use your math skills to rescue animals. |
SolvePuzzles.com -
Dog
Bones - 5 bones are hidden in the yard. Use strategies
to locate them in the least number of turns
Brainwave
Junior for ages 4 and up. (from HappyBrain.com -
interactive puzzles to exercise your brain.)