Educational Games
English
1. Power Proofreading:
Students become proofreading technicians as they correct errors in scripts, memos, and other writings at the HME-TV station. (Through 8th grade skills)
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/index.html
2. First Lines
They give you the first line of a novel or poem, and you tell the name of the work. Categories include: English Literature, Voices of Women, The Prize, Sci. Fi., 1950’s, 1960’s, etc.
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jad22/index.html#Categories
3. Name that Literary Element
Take a virtual ride through the literary cosmos in this interactive game designed to test your knowledge of the literary elements in your book. View a definition on your screen and then click on its matching literary element from a choice of terms floating through space. Race against the clock or challenge a partner to play!
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson2.ini&height2=296
4. In Search of Shakespeare: Playwright Game
Do you have what it takes to be a successful Elizabethan playwright?
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/#
5. Whodunit?
Do you have what it takes to be a forensic expert? Give this fingerprint matching game a whorl.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/archives_sf_games.html
6. Conquestion Triva Game: Literature
Answer literature trivia questions to complete a conquest. Capture conquered questions by adding a question to the conquest.
http://www.conquestion.com/questions/catalog/en/US/11/index.html
7. The Grammar of Doom
You are an adventurer trying to find the secret to the mystical Temple of Doomed Grammar . There are ten rooms in the temple, and each one is full of tricks and traps. You need to use your English grammar and vocabulary to get through the rooms. Each room that you complete gives you one word of the password sentence that you need to finish the game.
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm
8. Interactive Grammar Quizzes
This is a huge list of quizzes on all aspects of grammar from basic parts of speech to Grammatic Esoterica.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
9. English Club.com
More interactive quizzes - good for lower levels and ESL
http://grammar.englishclub.com/
10. Sink or Swim: Subject/Predicate
Find the subjects and predicates of sentences in an ocean of words.
http://fen.com/studentactivities/SinkOrSwim/SinkorSwim.html
11. Two Minute Mysteries
Use your deductive reasoning and reading skills to solve these short mysteries.
http://www.mysterynet.com/
12. History Trail: Victorian England
This site provides two articles, an interactive game, and a quiz on each of the following topics: Industry and Invention, Earning a Living, The Sour Smell of Success, Laissez-faire and the Victorians, Ideals of womanhood in Victorian England, Women and Urban Life. Excellent site provided by the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/preview.shtml
Science
1. Operation: Heart Transplant:
Enter the virtual NOVA operating theatre, where you will be given a scalpel and perform a heart transplant of your own.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/transplant.html
2. Amazon Interactive:
Plan and manage a locally-controlled ecotourism project. Can you make ecotourism sustainable?
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
3. Element matching game
Match the element with its symbol.
http://education.jlab.org/elementmatching/index.html
4. Element Hangman
http://education.jlab.org/elementhangman/prob239.html
5. NetFrog:
An interactive frog dissection
http://biology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog/menu.html
6. Control the Cell Cycle:
(Mitosis/Meiosis)
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/educational/2001/cellcycle.html
7. Bloody Madness:
As the doctor in charge of the ER, you must provide your patients with the right types of blood for transfusion. Match donors with recipients before time runs out or there will be fatal consequences!
http://library.thinkquest.org/20465/g_blood.html
8. Transcription Demonstration
Using the given DNA base sequence, can you decode the genetic data to make an amino acid chain?
http://library.thinkquest.org/20465/g_DNATranscription.html
9. Linkage Maps
Given recombinance frequencies between genes on a chromosome create a linkage map. This demonstration makes a fun logic game!
http://library.thinkquest.org/20465/g_linkagemap.html
10. Hidden Killers: Doctor for a day:
Be a doctor for a day! This role playing game will challenge what you really know about viruses. The good news is... all the information you need to beat the game is in our web site!
http://library.thinkquest.org/23054/?tqskip=1&tqskip1=1&tqtime=0222
11. zeroBio:
This site includes chemistry and biology word scrambles, Drag and Drop Negative Feedback Cycle (stimulus and responses), Molecule Magic (matching chemical formulas to names of common chemicals), Drag and Drop Periodic Table (practice with the first 18 elements on the table by dragging & dropping to its correct position on the chart), tOXin (A deadly strain of bacteria has been accidentally introduced on Earth by a spaceship returning from Mars. The bacteria produce a toxin that is highly poisonous and a vaccine to protect society is drastically needed. To crack the code for the toxin, you're going to need to know some grade 12 biology. DNA, amino acids, mRNA, cordons.. that kind of stuff.), and CyberStranded II (a re-seeding project in the year 2050).
http://www.execulink.com/~ekimmel/games.htm
12. Games for Science Classes
Download templates for Science Jeopardy, Science Taboo, Science Bingo, Science Pictionary, Science Baseball, and Twenty-One Questions. Also, links to other science games.
http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/ref/games/
13. Build Your Own Roller Coaster
On this site, students use laws of physical science to build the best roller coaster.
http://media.travel.discovery.com/ideas/themeparks/rollercoasters/buildacoaster.html
14. The Game of Life
You control the parameters of life in this interactive game. Students select such factors as loneliness and overcrowding (and even which graphics to use) then play the game to see how the population fares. Continue playing to determine if successive generations will survive.
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/life/
15. iDNAfication
You are a student in the advanced biology class at your high school and will be asked to solve a mystery using your knowledge in biology, molecular biology, and forensic science. To solve the mystery you must use the proper techniques to eliminate suspects and identify the responsible individual.
http://www.swbic.org/cgi-bin/idna.cgi
16. Origin Unknown
Players must use actual bioinformatics tools from the World Wide Web to determine the origin of an unidentified organic sample.
http://swbic.org/origin/
17. Outbreak
Players must use microbial identification techniques to identify the causative agent of an illness outbreak.
http://swbic.org/outbreak/
18. Protein Explorations
What Protein Are You? Explore protein structure files in the public Protein Data Bank.
http://www.swbic.org/education/proteingame.html
19. Genetic Probe
Use the online genetic probe to locate a sequence of basis that appear in a genetic code. Grades 5-12
http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/biotechnologyOnline/interactives/gene_probe_interactive.htm
20. Experience Science and Math with Gizmos
There are all sorts of gizmos (interactions) for high school science. The drawback: limited access of one gizmo per day.
http://www.explorelearning.com/
21. Periodic Puzzle
This is a slider puzzle with elements on the Periodic Table.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/interactives/puzzle/index.html
22. Wafer Maker
Wafer Maker is a fast-paced game where you are growing silicon crystals to make transistors!
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/interactives/wafer/index.html
Social Studies
1. Emperor of Rome Game:
To play the Emperor of Rome game, you must first choose whether to play as the Emperor Tiberius, or as Fate. The computer will play as your opponent. The game is played as a series of situations.
http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/empire5.html
2. Cleopatra’s World
This game is a series of questions and pictures.
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/cleogame/cleogame.html
3. Death in Rome
Be a Roman sleuth - use your detective skills to unravel the events behind a mysterious death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_deathrome.shtml
4. Gladiator: Dressed to Kill
Dress a gladiator for battle in the Roman arena of death. Your choice of weapons and armor will decide whether or not he is victorious.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_gladiator.shtml
5. The Mummy Maker
Enter the embalmer's workshop, where you are to prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the king, for burial. The chief embalmer, Kha, is watching your work closely. You must do it perfectly - Kha's reputation rests on your shoulders.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummy_maker_game.shtml
6. Pyramid Challenge
Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt 's Old Kingdom , to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the most important project of your career - the building of the king’s pyramid.
To succeed in this task, you must be a good all-rounder. Not only should you be able to motivate your workforce, but you must have good observational skills and the ability to steer a barge up the Nile , avoiding hippos and crocodiles.
Have you got what it takes to be a pyramid builder?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/pyramid_builder_game.shtml
7. Viking Quest
Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/launch_gms_viking_quest.shtml
8. Waterloo Interactive Battle Simulator:
To play the Waterloo Interactive Battle Simulator, you must first choose whether to play as Napoleon (French side) or as Wellington (Allied side). The computer will play as your opponent. The game is played as a series of situations. The exact number of situations required to complete the game will vary, but expect to play about eight or so to finish the game.
http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/flash/n_war/ibs/index.html
9. Secrets of the Empire: Queen Victoria
Do you have what it takes to travel the length of the British Empire and return with its secrets? Be forewarned -- this adventure is not for the lazy or weak-minded.
http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/secrets/index.html
10. You're the General
April 1862. General Grant and the Union army are on the move. They need to seize Corinth , Mississippi -- but how? If you were Grant, what would you do?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/broadband/ytg.html
11. Presidential Election of 1912
The Election of 1912 has been called one of the most significant elections in American history. It involved a debate about the nature of government of a depth and sophistication rarely seen in American politics. In this interactive feature, you'll get the chance to form your own political party -- and see if you have what it takes to win the Presidential Election of 1912.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/sfeature/sf_election.html
12. The Road to the Revolution
Test your knowledge about the American Revolution, and see if you can navigate your way to independence. Every correct answer gets you closer to liberty!
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html
13. Flag Tag
Do you know lots of flags? Tag the right one! Test yourself...
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/flagtag/frm_ft_intro.asp?score=0&screen_height=600
14. U.S. Map Game
Match the Name of the State & its Capital with the state on the map
http://quizhub.com/quiz/f-usa-map.cfm
15. Where Is That?
FunBrain shows you the maps. You tell what state or country is colored in and its capital. You can pick from the US , Africa , Europe , Asia , North America , South America , and the whole world.
http://www.funbrain.com/where/
16. American Presidency Game Show
This is a Jeopardy-type online game about the presidents.
http://www.surfnetkids.com/quiz/president/
17. The Galileo Games
A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment -- the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects fall at the same rate. In this feature, you'll get a sampling of Galileo's thought experiments and conduct virtual versions of his experiments, including those using an inclined plane and a pendulum.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/galileo.html
18. Hitler’s Lost Sub: Fire a Torpedo:
Students work through “How a Torpedo Works” and “Firing Procedure” before they play the actual game of “Sink the Ship.” This game lets the student be the specialist who is in charge of setting torpedo gyroscopes in a submarine's torpedo room.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/torpedo.html
19. "Save Houdini" Game
Harry Houdini became the world's greatest escape artist by continually inventing new ways to make his escapes. Although he kept many of his techniques secret, he did reveal some. What were these techniques? In this feature, you have to find out...or else.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/houdini/sfeature/save.html
20. Corner the Market
John D. Rockefeller climbed to the pinnacle of American industry using clever tactics that were later outlawed. Do you have what it takes to corner the market too?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/archives_sf_games.html
21. Elections
Imagine that you’re a Presidential candidate. Pick your party and create your platform. Then use all the tools available to beat your opponent in a whirlwind campaign. One player and two player games.
http://www.ciconline.com/eLECTIONS/elections.htm
22. US Presidents – Hangman
This is a twist on the old Hangman game.
http://www.quia.com/hm/1035.html
23. Who Is That?
Choose either US Presidents or famous scientists/mathematicians – you are shown a portrait & are given up to 4 clues.
http://www.funbrain.com/who/
24. The Underground Railroad
You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland . Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
25. Inside the White House
You have been elected President of the United States . What will you do in office? This is an interactive role-playing game.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/whitehouse/ovalfrm.html
26. History Trail: Victorian England
This site provides two articles, an interactive game, and a quiz on each of the following topics: Industry and Invention, Earning a Living, The Sour Smell of Success, Laissez-faire and the Victorians, Ideals of womanhood in Victorian England, Women and Urban Life. Excellent site provided by the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/preview.shtml
27. History Trail: War and Conflict
Same as above. Topics include: Weapons, Soldiers, Home Front, Art in WWI.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/warslj/preview.shtml
28. Other History Trails by the BBC
Other trails in Local History, Archeology, How to Do History, Family History, Conquests and Church and State.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/modules.shtml
29. Early American History
How much do you know about early American history? Take a quiz!
http://earlyamerica.com/games/game.html
30.Channel One Games
Channel One offers some excellent social studies quizzes and games. Make sure that you use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer as your browser on our network for these games to work.
http://www.channelone.com
Math
1. Decimal and Whole Number Jeopardy
Play by yourself or with another person to score the winning points while doing conversion problems
http://www.quia.com/cb/8142.html
2. Decimals and Fractions Concentration
Match the decimals to their corresponding fractions
http://www.quia.com/cc/65724.html
3. Equivalent Fractions Games
Match the fractions
http://kidshub.org/kids/fractions.cfm
4. Pythagorean Puzzle:
First move blocks to show how the Pythagorean Theorem works. Then, play games such as the Pythagorean Theorem and Baseball, Breaking and Entering, and Scaling the Pyramids.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/puzzle/
5. Speedmath – Inequalities
http://education.jlab.org/sminequality/index.html
6. Quia Math Games:
Includes Decimal &Whole Number Jeopardy, Algebra Concentration, Equivalent Fractions and many more
http://www.quia.com/dir/math/
7. National Library of Virtual Manipulative:
This site is by grade level – for Math
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
8. Pre-Algebra Games
This is a site with links to many pre-algebra games, including games on solving simple equations, word problems, and inequalities.
http://www.gamequarium.com/prealgebra.html
9. Fishy Equations
Work out the weight of fish in equations – timed exercises.
http://www.active-maths.co.uk/algebra/games/fish_equations1.html
10. Elephant Wallpaper
Reading numbers on graphs and sequencing.
http://www.active-maths.co.uk/algebra/games/elephants1.html
11. Math World Interactive
The interactive site was dedicated to helping educators and parents motivate their students to solve open-ended word problems, communicate mathematically, and share cultural and geographical information. The Challenge Cycle started every 12 weeks and the students followed a specific problem-solving format. Even if you don’t want to joint the Challenge Cycle, your students can work the problems.
http://mathforum.org/mathworld/
12. Math Quiz Set
Play License Plate Math, Algebra and Advanced Algebra daily online quizzes.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/contst.htm
13. Interactive Math Games
From basic math through calculus, this pages has links to many interactive math games.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#algebra
14. Who Wants to Be a Mathonaire?
Based on the TV Show, the questions go from metric conversions and time order (including military time) to solving equations. Cute game!
http://www.mathsyear2000.org/games/index.shtml
15. Math Fighter
Don your helmet, flight suit and parachute and then soar through the skies shooting down equations. Easy mathematical calculations, but fun.
http://www.mathsyear2000.org/games/index.shtml
16. The Math File Game Show
Ancient math hosts Hypatia and Pythagoras offer you a selection of games from numbers to shapes to data handling to algebra. The higher levels are great for high school students.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/index.shtml
17. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathmatics
Categories include: Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis and Probability. This site has 9-12 interactions. Each category includes various links to interactive games and puzzles.
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
18. Order of Operations Workout
Student is given ten problems to solve using the order of operations.
http://www.math.com/school/subject2/practice/S2U1L2/S2U1L2Pract.html
19. Cut the Knot
This website provides interactive games in basic arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml
20. Experience Science and Math with Gizmos
There are all sorts of gizmos (interactions) for high school math. The drawback: limited access of one gizmo per day.
http://www.explorelearning.com/
Foreign Languages
French
1. French Numbers: Play Concentration, Flashcards or Wordsearch
http://www.quia.com/jg/66096.html
2. Rags to Riches:
Learn vocabulary to do with Food and Drink in French, and quantities.
http://www.quia.com/rr/42568.html
Spanish
1. Spanish Numbers:
Play Concentration, Flashcards or Wordsearch
http://www.quia.com/jg/65552.html
2. Spanish Color Words:
Play Concentration, Flashcards or Wordsearch
http://www.quia.com/jg/280547.html
3. Translator Alligator
The four levels of this game include: click on the correct foreign language word (multiple choice), spell the correct foreign language word, click on the correct English word (multiple choice), and spell the correct English word. There are eight different word categories.
http://www.funbrain.com/lang/index.html
Latin
1. Various Latin Games
http://www.latinteach.com/latingames.html
Art
1. Raiders of the Lost Art:
The student acts as an archeologist, using artifacts and outside knowledge (which we can also provide) to make new discoveries about cultures. Students discover treasures in art, culture, and learning. Each culture has several artifacts for you to find. They may not be what you think of as art, necessarily, but they all are products of people’s creativity, and that’s the essence of art. Each shows you a different aspect of the culture so that you can piece together a fairly coherent image of what life was like at that time in that place.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3708/
2. Famous Artists and Works Online Crossword Puzzle:
Solve this online crossword puzzle by answering a few questions about artists and their masterpieces.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/java/20010101.html
3. Guess the Color
Roy G. Biv, the world's most colorful parrot, wants you to know how colors of light mix to form other colors. He'll show you a color. See if you can mix red, green, and blue to match his.
http://www.funbrain.com/color/index.html
4. History Trail
This site provides two articles, an interactive game, and a quiz on art during WWI. It is designed by the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/warslj/preview.shtml
General Sites
1. Study Stack
Online games for geography, history, math, languages, art, science, quiz bowl, ACT prep and medicine.
http://www.studystack.com/
2. A Game a Day
Look at a calendar on this site to see the “game of the day.” Some are quite challenging.
http://www.agameaday.com/04lev2.html
3. Puzzlemaker
Make your own games with Puzzlemaker
http://quizhub.com/quiz/f-usa-map.cfm
4. National Geographic Kids Games:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/
5. Quiz Hub
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
6. Trivia Web Games
Try your hand at trivia: Animal, World, Health & Fitness, 20th Century, and Presidents
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_trivia.htm
7. Quia
This learning game collection provides a fun way to help students review a wide variety of topics in general subject areas of math, science, foreign language, economics, and music. Visitors can create their own java-enabled flashcard drills, matching games, concentration, and word search puzzles using a simple (and free!) editing tool. The editor creates the Web pages and publishes them for all to share. This is a handy way to help students memorize factual information.
http://www.quia.com/
8. FunBrain
Funbrain.com is the home to interactive, GamesSpell Check, and Wacky include Math Baseball, Fun Match, Change Maker, Tales. Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, and lower levels of high school
http://www.funbrain.com/
