Online Learning Games

4kids
This website offers great games with easy directions for the subject areas math and language arts. The games are the best feature on this website. They are easy to understand and make learning fun. Many of the games allow you to choose the level at which you want to play at (slow, normal, fast). The games download quickly. Under "Cool Spot" students can type in an area of interest and "safe" sites for students to explore will come up related to that area. This is a great children friendly site for students to use in the classroom!

Arcademic Skill Builders
A really cool site that allows students to combine their love of video games with academic skill practice. All of these games are FREE and do not require a download! The manual tab at the top of the site will take you to a page for teachers and explain the best strategy for implementing these games in your classroom.

Cool Math 4 Kids
Cool Math for Kids is described by the site authors as: "an amusement park of math and more - especially designed for fun, fun, FUN! This site is a very colorful and interactive website that provides math games for students. Math level ranges from addition and subtraction to pre-calculus. A variety of interactive resources are available, including brain benders, which are online interactive logic games. This site is a great resource to provide engage and motivate students struggling with math, while providing additional practice opportunities, as well as to challenge students. Check out the lessons and activities for creative math lessons as well as geometry and art section. For more advanced math, check out Cool Math.

befuddlr!
A fun site that take submitted photos and breaks them up into different pieces, leaving you to rearrange them and put it back together (or create something new with).

Purpose Games
Purpose Games are fun educational online games and quizzes for a variety of content areas. Topics are numerous and included science, geography, and history. Teachers can choose from a large selection of quizzes in order to have students learn and practice skills and content knowledge. Teachers can also customize create their own quizzes, focused on classroom instruction. These quizzes can then be shared on the site for others to utilize as well.