Absolutely Amazing!
Puzzles, Games and more on the Net

Gail Lovely

Gail@GailLovely.com

 

 

Why PLAY in School?

 

Resources about Games

Game Theory

http://www.gametheory.net/

Rules to games and more

http://www.gameskidsplay.net/

Historical Game info:

http://www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/games.html

http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/

Non-Computer Games:

http://www.gamekids.com/gkgame1.html

Games for PE:

http://www.gamecentralstation.com/gcshome.asp

 

Places to get or create games to do off line

www.puzzlemaker.com

www.quia.com ($)

http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/games.html

http://www.mathpuzzle.com/

http://www.meganova.com/megakids/sherlock.htm

http://pbskids.org/lions/anywhere/index.html

 

Games to Download

http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/index.html (lots of ads)

http://dexterity.com (mostly demos)

http://www.educationalsimulations.com/index.html (RealLives Trial)

 

Places to play Standard Children’s games online

KidsPlanet

http://www.kidsplanet.org/games/

Matho - Geometry Terms

        http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/geomatho

Mastermind online

http://www.discoverlearning.com/games/mastermind.html

Dots online “fences” (pop ups)

        http://www.funranch.com/games/fence/fence.htm

Crosswords

        http://www.kidcrosswords.com/index.htm

Secret Messages

http://www.thunk.com/

Practice Coordinates

http://education.jlab.org/topquarkgame/index.html

 

Group Activities

Problem Solving and Logic

http://www.riverdeep.net/products/downloads/play_online.jhtml

Ace Ventura Detective Game

http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/index.html

Build a Prairie online

http://www1.umn.edu/bellmuse/mnideals/prairie/build/index.html

History Detective

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/detect/detectiv.html

Find one

http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/html/find123.htm

MadLibs online

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html

Like Balderdash but better

http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/

 

Online Games

Game that uses animals sounds for students to identify

        http://www.kidsplanet.org/games/js/whoami.html

Online Math exploration and tools

        http://illuminations.nctm.org/imath/6-8/pooltable/student/index.html

Using the Library of Congress Resource

        http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/detectiv.html

Space Science Game

        http://www.meganova.com/orbit/

Observation Game

        http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jeux.lulu/html/anglais/algorith/algoriA1.htm

 

More Online Learning Games

Early Learning:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/

http://www.meddybemps.com/funandgames.html

Strategy Games:

http://www.discoverlearning.com/games/

Excellent Math “Game”

http://education.jlab.org/placevalue/index.html

 

Games for Specific Audiences

Games for Girls: http://www.girltech.com/Game_Cafe/GC_menu_frame.html

Dr. Seuss Readers:  http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/

ESL Games: http://www.genkienglish.net/games.htm

 

Scavenger Hunts

http://www.nps.gov/yell/kidstuff/scavhunt/index.htm

How to make a scavenger hunt

        http://k-6educators.about.com/c/ht/00/07/How_Online_Scavenger_Hunts0962932801.htm

 

 

Game Compendium Sites

http://www.kidsclick.org/midgame.html

http://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/alta/games/index.html

http://www.javalovers.com/

http://www.agameaday.com/kidsindex.htm

http://www.cyberkids.com/fg/index2.html

http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/

http://www.zeeks.com/zg_main.html

 

MORE Game Compendium Sites

http://www.scugog-net.com/room108/starflight/games1.html

http://www.prongo.com

http://www.zeeks.com/zg_main.html

http://gustown.com/ToyStore/Games/Games.html

 

 

Puzzles and Brain Teasers too

Word Puzzles and Brain Teasers

http://brainbashers.com/

http://www.clickmazes.com/

http://www.crpuzzles.com

http://www.kidcrosswords.com/

http://www.puzzleparty.org/

Jigsaw Puzzles

http://www.jigzone.com/

http://www.thepuzzlefactory.com/

 

A Few More for YOU!

Teacher’s Hall Pass Game

        http://search.teach-nology.com/arcade/

Retro Computer Games

        http://www.neave.com/webgames/

Air Hockey

       http://www.adveract.com/games/airhock/airhockey_classic.htm

Addictive Game – ET Bejeweled

        http://zone.msn.com/bejeweled/spgame_newwin.asp?id=et

“Magic Sites”

        http://trendy.org/magic/interactivemagic.shtml

        http://mr-31238.mr.valuehost.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf

 

Gail Lovely

email: Gail@GailLovely.com