Student Games

Number Basics
  • TeachRKids Number Basics such as counting, place value, greater than/less than, odd and even numbers, and next and previous numbers. 
  • One False Move from FunBrain. In order to locate the hidden door and escape from the haunted house, students must first arrange numbers in a table from lowest to highest (or reverse). Beware--the easy level is misleading; negative numbers are introduced in the next level up, and it gets progressively more difficult with negative decimals as well. 
  • BBC Number Time  
  • Dartboard reinforces doubling and adding doubles
  • Mend the number square  reinforces the ordering of numbers from 10 to 100 and the patterns found on a 100 square.
  • Find one more develop the concepts and language of ading 'one more' through a pair finding activity.
  • Find the number develop the skills of number recognition and matching.
  • Snakes & ladders develop early counting skills and familiarity with the sequence of numbers to 100.
  • Test the toad addition problems using numbers up to 15. 
  • CompareIt! Learn the basics of using math expressions Greater than, Less than, equal to, and others using either words or symbols. 
  • Place Value! Learn the basics of place value. You enter a number an I'll show you the place value for up to sixteen digits! 
  • Count Us In to learn basic number concepts. Games can also be downloaded to play offline. 
  • Ordering Numbers  
Addition
Math Mayhem Are you ready to put your math skills to the ultimate challenge? Here is your chance to compete head-to-head in our exciting, fast-paced, multi-player arena.
Mad Math Minutes Can you do this page in one minute
A+ Math Addition Flashcards 
Step by Step addition practice from Dositey Mini lesson for 2 digit addition
Alien Addition and Subtraction  
Amoeba game written addition and subtraction  
Arithmetic Four Play Connect Four and practice your math facts with a partner.
Mental Addition and Subtraction from BBC
Subtraction
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Step by Step Subtraction practice from Dositey 
Mad Math Minutes  Can you do this page in one minute
A+ Math Subtraction Flashcard
Alien Addition and Subtraction  
Amoeba game written addition and subtraction  
Arithmetic Four Play Connect Four and practice your math facts with a partner.
Mental Addition and Subtraction from BBC
Multiplication
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Interactive Multiplication Games

Iinteractive multiplication games to choose from Multiplication.com

Mad Math Minutes  Can you do this page in one minute
A+ Math Multiplication Flashcards
Product Game  exercises your skill with factors and multiples. An interactive game for two players. 
ABIATOR'S Times Table Emporium Have fun practising your multiplication tables. Simply look at the MENU bar to the left and click on a times table you wish to practice and try and keep up with the flashcards!
There is also a random tables section to really test yourself!
There are three different speeds for you to choose from:
FAST  =  1 second
MEDIUM  =  3 seconds
SLOW  =  5 seconds 
Arithmetic Four Play Connect Four and practice your math facts with a partner.
Division
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Mini lesson for early Division Interactive Division practice from Dositey
Mad Math Minutes Can you do this page in one minute
A+ Math Division Flashcards Division Flashcards
Arithmetic Four Play Connect Four and practice your math facts with a partner.
Fractions
  • NO MATTER WHAT SHAPE YOUR FRACTIONS ARE IN Online fun and learning geometry too--that's the basis for the activities available at this site, where students will employ critical thinking skills to decipher shapes, determine relations between shapes, and then experiment with them.
  • Fresh Baked Fractions practice identifying the fraction that is not equal to the others
  • V/F logoVisual Fractions On-line fraction tutorial
  • Fraction Frenzy practice identifying equivalent fractions
  • Equivalent Fractions Enter the correct numbers into the boxes to make a series of equivalent fractions.  
  • Fraction Sorter represent fractions by coloring in the appropriate portions of either a circle or a square, then order those fractions from least to greatest.
  • Fraction Game Download or play online a game to understand and practice the relationships between fraction. Turn a target card, then make moves where the fractions
    must add up to the same targeted fraction.
  • Skillwise Fractions, Decimals, Percentages includes lessons, online practice, online quizzes, and worksheets. 
  • Making Equivalent Fractions let students practice making equivalent fractions. Just hit the refresh button in your browser and get a new set.
Measurement
Time
  • Just In Time Seven lessons will teach progressively more complicated concepts of time, and accompanying quizzes will reinforce the lessons. Also find matching pages, calendar activities, clock printables, days of the week word searches, and numerous classroom worksheets based on the theme.
  • Teaching Time Support teaching time using analog and digital clocks. Initial teaching can be done using the whole class clock, where the teacher can manipulate the time shown and ask students “What time will it be in…?” Worksheets are available for individual or group work, and when students are more proficient, there are interactive games, all with clocks. Based on the 24 hour clock. Scroll down to see the available activities.
  • Calculating time Convert hours into minutes or minutes into hours and determine which is bigger. 
Geometry
Money
Pre-Algebra Substitute solve these pre-algebra problems by substituting the values of the variables. 
Problem Solving
  • Math Hunt search the internet and solve math problems 
  • Math Maven's Mysteries  
  • Searching for Solutions Problem Solving Webquest "This web-based unit will introduce students to strategies and real-life practice activities for applying problem-solving skills.  Students will investigate real problems through a variety of websites and group activities.  They will become familiar with eight strategies and will practice using these strategies to use the Internet to obtain information, analyze data, make decisions, and apply problem-solving skills to find solutions to real-life situations."  
  • Alien Addition and Subtraction  
  • Math Playground to solve different types of word problems.
  • The Effective Detective practice your detective skills and see if Arthur can figure out who your are describing.
  • Bitesize Bingo learn and practice math concepts.
Roman Numerals
Tangrams
  • TANGRAM PUZZLES AND PIECES: A tangram grid is available here for printing. Make copies for each student to cut and color, and then print out several selections of the puzzles, included. Students can exchange these puzzles as they become proficient with the geometric challenges.
  • TANGRAM GAME from PBSKids Give your students the challenge to match the pattern of tangrams, but careful, it's not nearly as easy as it looks. Hints are available if you get stuck.
Collections
Data Analysis
Alphabet
Phonics/Phonemes
  • Write a Postcard This is an exercise in identifying, reading and spelling the nine vowel phonemes. Single and multisyllabic words are included.
  • Whirlyword Machine phonic and spelling investigations and practice; exploring and playing with rhyming patterns; generating rhyming strings, e.g. fat, hat, pat; blending phonemes to read CVC words in rhyming and non-rhyming sets; representing in writing the three phonemes in CVC words. 
  • Wordblender to investigate, read and spell words ending in ff, ll, ss, ck, ng; to discriminate, read and spell words with initial and final consonant clusters, e.g. bl, cr, tr, str.
  • Word and Pictures phonics game.
  • Goo Games early reading games for PreK-3rd.
  • Between the Lions games from PBS 
  • Learn to Read at Starfall "The Starfall learn-to-read program was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension."
  • Phonics Sounds Learn - Practice - or Review the important phonics sounds and rules. 
Sight Words
  • Star Words to read on sight high frequency words.
  • Learn to Read at Starfall "The Starfall learn-to-read program was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension."
Reading Comprehension
  • Sequencing Fun put events into the correct order. 
  • Reading Comprehension for 4th & 5th  Vocabulary in context sentences; Reading for understanding; Reading strategy.
  • Goo Games early reading games for PreK-3rd.
  • BookAdventure "FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.
  • Fin, Fur, and Feathers Bureau of Investigation work with a crack team of animal investigators who are trying to stop the bad guys of the world. 
  • Peetnik Mysteries  
  • Reading Workshop Online Tutorials : lesson available for:
    Using a Title and Table of Contents to predict content and meaning
    Direct Definition Context Clues
    Direct Definition Context Clues Teaching Aids
    Inferential Context Clues
    Right There Questions
    Put It Together Questions
    Put It Together Questions:Multi-Step Word Problems
    Main Idea
    Inference
    Fact/Opinion Questions
    Author's Purpose Questions
    Compare/Contrast Questions
  • Learn to Read at Starfall "The Starfall learn-to-read program was created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension."  
  • Maya Adventure from National Geographic 
  • Bookhive This site could be used for listening to stories, finding children's books that matches a child's interest, and letting our students submit a review of a book they have read.
  • Ebooks for Young Readers. Leveled early reading books created by teachers in Canada. You can listen to the books online if you have Adobe 6.0. Organized by level and topic. You can also print these books. 
  • The Effective Detective practice your detective skills and see if Arthur can figure out who your are describing.
  • Binky's Story Scramble Read the story (or get help reading it) and then put the parts in the correct order.
  • Sebastian Swan These books are online. Your students could read these books online independently or you could do this as a group activity by projecting them with a data projector. The books have Thinking Questions you can print off and Web Enquiry you can use interactively.
  • Roy the Zebra Guided Reading and Reading games for emergent readers
Reading Lists
Spelling
  • Sand Castles The game reinforces the common spelling patterns for the nine vowel phonemes. Players are given opportunities to choose and try alternative patterns with correct choices being rewarded.
  • Write a Postcard This is an exercise in identifying, reading and spelling the nine vowel phonemes. Single and multisyllabic words are included.
  • Whirlyword Machine phonic and spelling investigations and practice; exploring and playing with rhyming patterns; generating rhyming strings, e.g. fat, hat, pat; blending phonemes to read CVC words in rhyming and non-rhyming sets; representing in writing the three phonemes in CVC words.
  • Wordblender to investigate, read and spell words ending in ff, ll, ss, ck, ng; to discriminate, read and spell words with initial and final consonant clusters, e.g. bl, cr, tr, str.
  • Spellits Need strategies and practice to become a better speller?
  • Spelling from Harcourt Brace. grades 1 through 6. 
  • US Speller online tutor and spelling games
  • Spelling City practice your spelling words
Vocabulary

Try to complete the analogies in a race against time.

Try to identify the correct synonyms in a race against time.

Field Trip

Take a school field trip by unscrambling the synonyms.

Fish Tanks 1

Fill a tank with tropical fish using prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

Fish Tanks 2

Fill a tank with tropical fish using your knowledge of plurals.

Future City

Build a city of the future by classifying words in a series.

Cows context clue

Build corrals for cows by reading and answering questions.

Treasure Behind the Mask

Uncover the hidden treasure with your knowledge of the schwa sound.

Sly Pig

Build homes for pigs by unscrambling words.

Antonym Challenge

 

Space Station

Build a space station by using word study skills

Dino Hunters

Find all the different dinosaurs using dictionary. 

Grammar
Authors 
Online Stories and Magazines
Writing
Science
  • How Everyday Things Are Made  
  • Fossweb try all kinds of fun science activities. 
  • Maggie's Earth Adventure  
  • Solar System Tutor from Enchanted Learning. Read about our Solar System and answer a question.
  • Ways of Knowing Trail Visit a rain forest in the village of Epulu in central Africa to get to know the people and animals who live there. Some local kids will help you learn the secrets of the Ways of Knowing Trail. Click on the red dot in central Africa. 
  • Try Science Adventure (thematic interactive experiences), Experiments, Field Trips (interactive science center features, Curious? (polls and activities based on a hot topic question), and Live Cams.
  • EXPLORE THE FANTASTIC FOREST Enter the Fantastic Forest and explore the plants and animals that call this habitat their home. Students can click on panoramic, left, right, or center views as they investigate this special environment.
  • EdHeads Simple Machines activities-can you tell which simple machines are used for the everyday items? 
  • Mysteries of Apo Island Some strange things are happening on Apo Island, in the Philippines. Investigate the clues and try to solve the mystery! Learn about shark biodiversity.
  • SQUISH THE FISH Squish the Fish provides a delightful interactive learning experience for K-2 students. Squish morphs into different kinds of sea life, including eels, clown fish, and puffer fish to avoid being eaten, while students learn adaptive features that help fish in their environments. They will also learn what fish eat, and how they camouflage within their ecosystems to avert being a bigger fish's meal.
  • Billy and Maria: Weather Coloring Books themes available: winter, thunderstorms, tornado safety.
  • Winter Clothes Worksheets  
  • WHAT'S IT LIKE WHERE YOU LIVE? BIOMES OF THE WORLD: From a tropical rainforest, to coastal wetlands, rivers and streams, deserts, or tundra, this site offers a wide exploration of the diverse biomes on this planet we call Earth. Each separate biome contains photos, geographical information, plants, animals, and a featured gallery. After visiting all the sites, have a plant and animal bingo, where students must correctly place the species under the right biome to complete the game. Also have a museum of dioramas, giving specifications of what each mini-biome must contain.
  • Learn about Physical Processes
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  • SCIENCE LAB GENERATOR Encourage young scientists to proceed with the proper scientific methods during the course of their investigations, by setting up lab sheets. You can fill in the bones of this teacher tool, while student teams will use the worksheet to properly address their experiments.
  • Tech Topics from Museum of Innovation Earthquakes, Electricity, Cardiovascular System, Matter, and Genetics (added Apr 17)
  • Sebastian Swan These books are online. Your students could read these books online independently or you could do this as a group activity by projecting them with a data projector. The books have Thinking Questions you can print off and Web Enquiry you can use interactively.
   
Social Studies
  • FunBrain Show Me the Map  
  • State Capital Quiz from maps.com  
  • State Capitals Quiz you're given the state and you have to correctly enter the capital--spelling counts.  
  • GeoNet a fun geography game organized by regions of the United States 
  • GEOSPY! both learn and practice their world geography. First try the continents for an easy warm-up, and then go on to choose a continent in order to identify its countries. Also available is a states and province quiz for America's
    fifty states and Canada's provinces. 
  • GeoBee Challenge from National Geographic. 
  • Electronic Field Trips: to Historic Williamsburg
  • Leonardo's Workshop Someone has changed history! You must travel back in time to the Renaissance and explore Leonardo da Vinci's workshop in search of clues. Examine Leonardo's art and inventions and discover the spirit of the Renaissance while solving this interactive mystery. 
  • State Web Games  learn about our fifty states. Match the capitals and their states--3 levels.
  • Congress for Kids Tour our Federal government.  Good introductory quiz about vocabulary you need to know. 
  • Take a World Tour from Dr. Rabbit and Colgate and get your passport stamped as your learn about countries. 
  • Trip Down the Amazon pick the right animal to make your trip down the Amazon. 
  • Chronicle of the Revolution Headlines, timelines, resource material and related topics---a potpourri of information on the American Revolution. 
  • Perspectives on Liberty Picture this: Daily Life in the Colonies, the Global Village, and a Military point-of-view. 
  • Liberty Today Newly naturalized citizens. A photo essay. 
  •  The Road to Revolution A Revolutionary Game. Check and see how much you remember about the Revolutionary War. 
  • 50 US States
  • National Geographic for Kids
  • Maya Adventure from National Geographic 
  • The Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation a series of geography-themed missions. Learn about a new country and complete a mission.
Fun Games
Technology
Research and Homework Resources
  • Dewey Decimal Made Fun collection of web sites for the Dewey Decimal System to include web sites that have been organized by the Dewey Decimal System 
  • RESEARCH CARDS A selection of printable card templates will help guide and organize students in their research projects. Choose from question cards, quotation cards, computer cards, and graphic organizers.
  • Cyber Study Hall: A Guide to Homework Help Online Cyber-savvy students can have their own personal e-homework helper just a mouse click away -- if they just know where to look! Education World writer Glori Chaika hones in on online homework help resources that your students will find useful.
  • KidsClick search engine organized by the Dewey Decimal System.
Search Engines
  • KartOO is a metasearch tool that searches many different search engines and returns results as a "graphic map of information, demonstrating visually the relationship between websites and related topics."  
  • KidsClick search engine organized by the Dewey Decimal System.
Preschool Games
 

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