Learning can be fun!
Learning and studying doesn't have to be dry and boring. There are many ways to brighten up a lesson or concept for students. Creating what could be uninteresting material into something they want to learn about encourages them to work harder at the subject and retain the information longer. One of my favorite things to do with my students is to play games! I have created many file folder games, board games, card games and more over the years which I will share with you, but lately I've also been searching and finding some really cool online games. Some are pre-made and others may be created with your own specific objectives. I love when students come in and ask me, "Can we play that game again today?" I hope your students will enjoy some of these websites and game ideas, too. Please share some of your favorite learning games, ideas, and links below! I'm sure many students will benefit from them!
There will be so much more to come on this page!! :D
What to Find on this Page
- Spelling Learning, Review, and Testing Games
- Create Your Own Flash Games
- Make learning fun!
- Class Tools Game Generators
- Language Arts LOL's
- Mathematical Skills Fun!
- Educational Online Game Sites
- Enjoy Science!
- Other Cool Game Lenses!
- More Learning Games Websites & Blogs
- Sheppard Software
- Social Studies Amusement
- Educational Game Blogs
- Educational Games on Twitter
- Games to Print
Spelling Learning, Review, and Testing Games
What do you think?
Create Your Own Flash Games
When my oldest child thought it was awesome, the other children heard us having a good time and wanted to make games out of their lessons, too! I had he children help me create the games ~ we picked vocabulary term and concepts out of our books, I had them recite to me the answer and question that I typed in. (They were learning and reviewing just by creating the game - shhh - don't tell them!) Then, of course, we had fun playing the games to reinforce the concepts. In fact, they played them several times with a smile - now you know if I ask them to keep studying the old fashioned way, they wouldn't be as excited. :)





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Make learning fun!
Class Tools Game Generators
Free Flash Templates for Educators
Games that you may create are: Arcade Game Generator, Flashcard Generator, Countdown Timer, Random Name Picker, Dustbin Game, Post It, Diamond 9, Fishbone (Ishikawa), Venn Diagram, Animated Book, Timeline, Lights Out, Target, Hamburger, Living Graph, Learning Cycle, Jigsaw Diagram, Priority Chart, and Source Analyser.
- Class Tools
- The homepage of Class Tools is here along with access and directions for all of the games.
- Lewis & Clark Game 1
- This is a sample of a game from Class Tools that I made for my children. They really enjoyed playing it while reinforcing what I wanted them to know.
Language Arts LOL's
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The classic story "A Christmas Carol" ~ a famous author, Charles Dickens ~ creative animation genius, Walt Disney Productions ~ & one uniquely facinating actor, Jim Carrey ~ what else can I say!? With the new Disney...
Mathematical Skills Fun!
Educational Online Game Sites
- Kid's Educational Games at Prongo
- Prongo has the following games for ages 3-12+. You may search the games by age range if you wish.
The site also has E-Cards, Kid Jokes, Downloads, & Brain Teasers. Looks like tons of fun!!!
Fish World Game ~ Memory Match ~ Hatch and Match ~ Drag and Drop Game ~ Space World Cartoon Game ~ 8 Planets - The Solar System Game ~ Colorful Shape Making Game ~ Fish World 2 ~ Dino Draw Game ~ Batter's Up Baseball (Math Game)
2 Player Math Game (Adding) ~ Copy Cat Jack Color Game ~ Hungry Caterpillar ~
Checkers ~ Lemonade Larry (Math) ~ Stock Market Game ~ Space Jumble Puzzle Game ~ Word Find ~ Farm Stand Multiplication & Addition Game ~ Over 18 Mazes! ~
Puzzle Game ~ Connect the Dots ~ The Guessing Number Game ~ Tic Tac Toe ~ Multiplying to 25 Game ~ Guess the Number Game ~ The Wizard Game ~ Alien Code ~ Hide ~ N ~ Seek with Ellie Elephant ~ St. Patrick's Day Games ~ Easter Games ~
Mad Math (several levels)
Dinosaur Quiz Game ~ The Human Body Quiz Game ~ The Outer Space Quiz Game ~ The Inventors Quiz Game ~ The Earth Quiz Game ~ The United States Quiz Game - Funschool Arcade
- Over 200 free online educational flash games are found here! The games are listed under curricula area: math, language, science, geography & history, sports, and arts & music.
- The Kidz Page
- Kidz Page has free learning games for kids of all ages: Math & Numbers ~ Word Games ~ Picture Games ~ Sudoku ~ Spelling Words & Objects Games ~ Printable Crosswords ~ Memory ~ Logic Puzzles ~ Mazes and Others.
- Fun Brains Games ~ Teacher's Lounge Resources
- Kids will enjoy the crazy colorful graphics and characters that accompany these educational games! Children may pick out games they would like from the kids page, but I was enjoying the teacher page.
~ Fun Brain Game Finder ~ What a wonderful way to choose the best game for the topic and level you want! Simply click on the finder, then the age (5-17+) and subject (math, language arts, science, history, music, geography, art, technology, physical education) you are searching. It gives you a list of games and grade levels that match. Details of concepts covered in each game are displayed for your reference.
~ The 'Curriculum Guide' allows you to find games and their descriptions by alphabetical order, subjects, and grade levels.
~ 'Standards Finder' assists you in searching subject and grade standards so you may match your objectives.
~ The 'Flash Cards' section creates flashcards with your choice of mathmatical processes and integers to print out for children to study. It also contains a few resources for math homework assistance.
Many of the games may be adapted to the level you choose for your students. For example, the "Change Maker" game allows you to choose easy, medium, hard, or super brain levels. You can also choose which country's money you want to study: United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, or Australia. There is a similar page for parents to search games for their children.
Enjoy Science!
Other Cool Game Lenses!
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Kids Online Games
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Kids online game have been for long time thought as a dangerous with many vulnerabilities for young children. Lot things changed. And the virtual world become harmless and even useful for kids. They can improve their IQ, fantasy, compete spirit and m...
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Kid Math Games
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Educational Games & Resources
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Welcome to Fuel the Brain's Squidoo page! Our site is for educators and parents of elementary students providing free and educational games and resources. Educators put in a great deal of time and money finding classroom resources. We hope to make...
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Enjoying Educational Games
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What do kids do best? Play of course. Why not encourage this natural tendency by providing your children with great entertaining games that just happen to be educational as well. Educational Games such as Mancala and Set teach math concep...
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Online games for kids
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Playing games online with your kids is a great way to spend time together. But finding the right games can be difficult. You want to find games that are suitable for the whole family, right? I have found a site for playing games online with my eldest...
More Learning Games Websites & Blogs
If you have written a webpage or blog about educational games, or know of a fantastic site, please add it to the list. I would love to feature your pages to assist parents and teachers in the education world. You may come back to vote it to the top if you like! Thanks! :)
Learn Vedic Maths (Mental Maths)
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Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software offers a great many FREE educational games that are definately high quality. They are not the cutsy games with colorful flashing pictures, but they have solid information and appeal to older students and adults. They do have software that they sell on the site, but these are free ones. Other learning materials may be found on the main site, also.
- Geography Games
- On the Geography Games main page you will find areas of the world to learn about: Africa, Asia, Canada, The Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, Middle East, Oceania, Central & South America, United States, and The World. Click on the area you are interested in. From there you may choose to study countries, capitals, states or provinces, landscape, or others. Each category starts with a tutorial level and then follows with beginner, intermediate, expert, cartographer, and games. In the top left corner you will find a printable map to use in conjunction with the region you are studying. Some of them are rather difficult, but that's what makes them fun to me. My high schooler will be using these in more depth this year. It sure makes it more fun to memorize countries, capitals, and geographic features than just from a textbook!
- Vocabulary Games
- The games in this section would be wonderful for advanced middle school , high school, college, and for people like me who need to enhance their vocabulary! They come in the categories of SAT / GRE Prep Words, Vocabulary Context Skills, Expert Word List, Medical Jargon, and Talking Tech (Computer Terminology).
- Kid's Corner Animals
- Games and pages for the following: What Kind of Animal? ~ Endangered Animals ~ Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores... ~ Animal Classification ~ Food Chain ~ Seek and Find ~ Memory Matching ~ Paint and Make ~ Paint and Learn Environments ~ Jigsaw Puzzle Pages ~ Hidden Animals ~ Preschool and Kindergarten Animals ~ and Activities for the more advanced students...
Social Studies Amusement
What kinds of games do you like to play to make learning fun?
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- HorseAndPony HorseAndPony Nov 3, 2009 @ 9:00 am
- We love learning games. These are great. We are going to try spellingcity.com today. Thanks for the info.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Oct 18, 2009 @ 6:24 am
- We constantly play games to practice learning skills. Two of our favorites right now are Blokus and Bananagrams. Since I just started homeschooling my youngest, I am going to ask her to check out the Create Your Own Flashgames that you suggested.
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- GrowWear GrowWear Oct 17, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
- I so agree! Definitely need to make learning fun for children.
Educational Game Blogs
- Channel 4 Seeks Profits From Online Educational Games | paidContent:UK
- Public service broadcaster Channel 4 doesn't have to make money from its education content, but it's still interested in bringing home revenues from its education-related online games in 2010. The broadcaster's head of education ...
- Designer eLearning: Online Educational Games
- Online Educational Games. Beautifully presented online games for kids that teach skills in math, science and language arts are available for free at arcademicskillbuilders.com. This University of Kansas based initiative also features a ...
- KUBBU: Create online educational games, websites and activities ...
- KUBBU: Create online educational games, websites and activities. Monday, November 9, 2009 ยท No Comments. Create activities, crosswords and quizzes for online practice, revision and examination. Easily create and manage students' and ...
- Sweet Tidings: Toys & Games Online Gift Guide & Giveaway
- Shopping for online toys has never been easier easy with Toys and Game Online's wide variety of toys, costumes, stuffed animals, baby toys and award winning educational games suited to any budget and preference. ...
Educational Games on Twitter
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- desk_stage
- http://tinyurl.com/3vkscb Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Games
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- nahmil
- About to let my daughter play some educational games online. TTYL
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- niceschool
- Schoolinfo: Free educational games online http://www.readyforschool.info/free-educational-games-online/
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- AKidsLifeOnline
- A Kid's Life! is a safe ad free online world for pre-school children. Learn about the world around you by playing educational online games.
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- Paul0Evans1
- Have a look? Channel 4 Seeks Profits From Online Educational Games http://url4.eu/n6Zi
Games to Print
- Personal Educational Press
- Create educational games for free ~ Flashcards, Bingo Board, Match Across, Study & Tracing Sheets, Quizzes, and Flash Games.
Just Little Me
My Bio
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs! Psalm 100:1-2
Hi! My name is Pamela and I am a Christian homeschool mom to three awesome children and wife to a darling man for 19 years. I love teaching and working with children! Before homeschooling, I was a music teacher in a Christian school and truly enjoyed it! I still teach private piano, flute, clarinet, and saxophone lessons in my home, along with group music lessons in music theory, music history, and student ensembles. This is my 20th year! I have been blessed with so many wonderful students. I also perform in several local churches, ensembles, and orchestras in a variety of settings. Thanks for stopping by! :D Come visit me sometime at our homeschool blog - JOY Christian School, or my music education blog - Joyful Songs!
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