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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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BrainFlips: Free Online Flashcards

Oct 30

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BrainFlipsLogoFlash cards are a staple of students studying toolbox, but the tedious work required to create and share them sometimes gets in the way of their regular use. Enter BrainFlips, one of the best flashcard sites I’ve come across. An account (free) is required to create and share flash card decks, but no account is required to use the decks that other users have created which as of this writing there are 726 decks available. Some cool examples include: Barack Obama, Addition, and Introductory Spanish. Plus each deck can be viewed in one of 3 ways: Introduction mode, which gives you the question and answer side by side, Traditional Mode, shows question and then the answer, or Response Mode, which creates a multiple choice game out of the cards.

Thanks to FreeTech4Teachers for finding this site.

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Free Technology for Teachers: US Government Studies Games

Sep 1

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US Government Studies Games:

“US Government Studies Games Law Focused Education, a subsidiary of the State Bar of Texas, has developed some good games about US Government. Law Focused Education has thirteen games that could be used in Civics and Social Studies classrooms across the United States. There are three additional games that are specific to Texas.

The games offered by Law Focused Education cover topics like the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Branches of Government. One topic addressed by Law Focused Education that you don’t often see turned into a game is Federalists v. Anti-Federalists.

Thanks to Anne Marie at Talking SMARTBoards for the tip.

Applications for Education
Law Focused Education’s games could be excellent review games for use in Civics and US History classes. In fact, I linked one of the games to the blog for my own class.”

(Via Free Tech 4 Teachers.)

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5th Graders at Elm iChat Through Time

Jan 15

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I’d like to Congratulate Matt Haeger and Elm Tech Assistant Janet Kouvelas for arrange a physics shattering Video iChat through time today with Former President Thomas Jefferson! President Jefferson appeared on iChat from his home at Monticello to answer questions from 63 5th Graders on the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and Slavery.
This conversation through time was made possible thanks to our new Fiber Network which performed well, even without the increased Internet Bandwidth coming in Phase II of the project (Great Job Keith!). I invite teachers to look around the world for exciting resources that will engage your students in fun new ways. The Tech Department is happy to help your class interact with others all across the world!
Once again, Congratulations to Janet and Matt on working to make this event a success.

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