Absolutely Amazing!
Puzzles, Games and more on the Net
By Gail Lovely
gail@GailLovely.com

Why Use Games in Class?

Goofy examples:
http://trendy.org/magic/warning.html
http://www.adveract.com/games/airhock/airhocky.htm

Resources about Games:
International Games: http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/edition11/games-section.htm
Rules to games and more: http://www.gameskidsplay.net/
Historical Game info: http://www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/games.html
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

Games to Download
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/index.html

Places to play games online:

Standard Children’s games:

KidsPlanet:  http://www.kidsplanet.org/games/
Alfy:  http://www.alfy.com
Game Brain (free sign up):  http://www.gamebrain.com/
Matho - Geometry Terms: http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/geomatho
Mastermind online: http://www.discoverlearning.com/games/mastermind.html
Dots online “fences”  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
Map puzzle: http://www.funschool.com/current/games/jpp_usmap,p

Group Activities:
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
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/

Examples of Online Games where “online” is important:

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 Resources:
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

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

 

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/

 

A compendium site or two:

http://www.scugog-net.com/room108/starflight/games1.html
http://www.prongo.com/
http://www.zeeks.com/games/zeekGames.asp
http://pbskids.org/lions/anywhere/index.html (games to play anywhere)

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