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Fun Free Math Multiplayer Games for K-5

Nov 19

Posted by eric in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies | Comments off

Arcademic Skill Builders_ Online Educational Games

Defend your space station from incoming meteors by solving multiplication problems or drag race your friends through division. AcademicSkillBuilders.com has a number of great math games covering Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Addition, Subtraction, and Integers. The games run great under any web browser and are quick to start and easy to play. All of the games are research based, and aligned to state standards.

Arcademic Skill Builders - Verb Viper

Theres also a selection of language arts games focusing on spelling, vowels, verbs and Social Studies games focusing on State Capitals and countries. Now I better close the window so I can get some work done…

Arcademic Skill Builders - Captial Penguin

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Game Classroom: K-6 Math & LA Games, Worksheets & More

Sep 18

Posted by eric in Language Arts, Math | 2 Comments

Game Classroom LogoGame classroom is a site that has searched the web for the best and most reliable educational games, and put them in one place sorted by grade and content level. The games come from a variety of sources including some from textbook publishers like Harcourt.

When you choose a grade level you are presented with a variety of games tailored to that grade level, and each game is accompanied by a description of the game and the concepts it explores.

Beyond games, Game Classroom also offers a section they call “homework help.” In this section students, parents, and teachers can choose a common concept explored in that grade level such as “Days of the Week” for Kindergarten and get access to sample problems, games that address that area, learning tips, and links to other online resources.

Game Classroom is a great site, with loads of content for Grades K – 6. Best of all, its free!

Shout out to FreeTech4Teachers.com for finding this great resource.

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Teachers’ Domain – 100’s of PBS-Based Lessons

Aug 3

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Free Technology for Teachers: Teachers’ Domain – 100’s of PBS-Based Lessons:

“Teachers’ Domain – 100’s of PBS-Based Lessons
NOVA, Frontline, and American Experience are three of PBS’ hallmark series. Quite a bit of the content from those three programs is available online on the PBS website as well as on Snag Films. Teachers’ Domain is another place to find great video content from PBS. But the real purpose of Teachers’ Domain is to provide lesson plans and activities to match the media content from PBS and their content partners.

Teachers’ Domain offers lesson plans and activities for K-12 divided into five content categories. To help you narrow your search for lessons, the five categories, arts, language arts, science, mathematics, and social studies are divided into subcategories.”

(Via. Free Tech 4 Teachers)

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Ghost Blasters, Math Blasters – A Fun Math Game

Feb 9

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Ghost Blasters, Math Blasters – A Fun Math Game

Ghost Blasters is a fun mathematics game that I learned about last week through Anne Marie’s Talking Smartboards blog. Ghost Blasters is designed to help students learn to multiply and divide quickly in their heads. To play Ghost Blasters select a multiple of which each "bad" ghost will have a value that is a multiple of that which you chose. Students then use their mouse to blast every "bad" ghost. For example, if I select "5" at the beginning then all bad ghosts will display a multiple of 5. I then have to blast all of the bad ghosts to gain points, but if I blast a "good" ghost (a ghost that does not have a multiple of 5) I lose points.

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