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By Ryan Schaaf
Web-based games can prove to be a treasure trove of learning opportunities, and there are a variety of content-areas, age ranges, and skill levels to choose from. The true pay dirt for browser-based learning games can be found on large online digital game hubs. Here are 10 game hubs players that teachers can use to as one tool in their arsenal.
1. Sheppard Software
Headed by Brad Sheppard, Sheppard Software hosts hundreds of free, online, educational games for kids. The site organizes its games into categories, which allow students and teachers to easily navigate by subject area and find a suitable game that caters to either an instructional need or a child’s sense of curiosity and thirst of knowledge and challenge.
2. PBS Kids Games
PBS KIDS creates curriculum-based entertainment. The games site hosts a number of browser-based gaming experiences based on popular literary and media franchises such as The Cat in the Hat, Curious George, Sesame Street, and more. Games are organized by subject-type, which includes math, healthy habits, science, reading, and teamwork.
3. Mr. Nussbaum
Created by Greg Nussbaum, a Virginia public school teacher, Mr. Nussbaum boasts over 3,500 content pages with a wide variety of learning games organized by content type and grade level. This site is also optimized for use on a tablet and an interactive whiteboard.
4. National Geographic Kids
The world-famous National Geographic hosts over 100 fun, engaging, and interactive science, action, adventure, geography, quiz, and puzzle games. For a free game hub, the production quality on games or interactives such as Wildest Weather, On the Trail of Captain John Smith, and The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom is truly remarkable.
5. Poptropica
Under the creative direction of Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Poptropica® is a virtual world in which kids explore and play in complete safety. Every month, millions of kids from around the world are entertained and informed by Poptropica's engaging quests, stories, and games.
6. Funbrain
Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
7. BBC Schools: Games
The British counterpart of our PBS, the BBC, offers interactive digital games and activities involving subjects such as literacy, numeracy, history, mathematics, music, and the arts. The games are also categorized into age ranges. The cartoon graphics are very appealing for children, but the content is stellar for teachers and parents that want children to play to learn.
8. Primary Games
With games and activities that meet curriculum needs for math, science, language arts, and social studies, Primary Games houses over 1,000 game titles. The site includes curriculum guides for teachers to use in conjunction with the games.
9. ABCYa.com
This game site offers teacher-created and approved educational computer games for elementary students to learn math and language arts on the web. Featured by The New York Times, Apple, and Fox News, ABCYa.com provides young children well-crafted games and activities.
10. Arcademic Skill Builders
Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Arcademic games challenge students to improve their scores through repetitive, timed learning drills that provide immediate feedback.
Ryan Schaaf is Assistant Professor of Technology at the School of Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University.
Best Online Educational Games for Every Grade
Kids are on screens a lot more these days, so why not make it educational? Every day it’s getting easier to find apps and websites that offer great activities for language arts, math, science, art, and STEM. There are many options out there, so to help you get started, we’ve put together this list of the 40+ best online educational games for elementary kids as well as middle and high school students.
Elementary Online Educational Games
ABCMouse
Offering a full curriculum for children ages 2 to 8, this site includes fun and interactive games, songs, and puzzles for reading, math, science, and art.
Helps with: Reading, Math, Science, Art
Adventure Academy
Who’s reading for an adventure? This educational MMO takes kids ages 8 to 13 on a knowledge quest through language arts, math, science, and social studies.
Helps with: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Buzzmath
Looking to improve outcomes in a way that kids will enjoy? This site takes K-12 students on a time-traveling adventure to meet some of the most influential mathematicians in history.
Helps with: Math
Camp Wonderopolis
Explore interactive STEM and literacy-building topics on this site that features a cool and captivating design (and quirky trivia)!
Helps with: Science, Reading
Creativity Express Online!
This very cool site offers interactive visual arts education for students in grades 2 to 8 to promote creative thinking in the next generation. In addition to 16 animated lessons, you’ll also have access to the comprehensive Teacher Account Center.
Helps with: Art
Duck Duck Moose Reading
Based on Common Core State Standards, this online game teaches phonics including the letter sounds for all consonants, short vowels, and long vowels. Kids will also practice spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.
Helps with: Language Arts
FunBrain
Dive into a coral reef or be a star climber on this great site that features a wide assortment of games that can be filtered by grade level for kids in pre-K through eighth grade.
Helps with: Science, Reading
Gamestar Mechanic
Do you have gamers in your class? This site helps kids ages 7 through 14 learn how to design their very own video games through game-based quests and courses.
Helps with: Science, Technology
GoNoodle
Whether they’re jetpacking through the stars in Zapp Von Doubler’s Space Race or clearing weeds in the garden in Om Petalhead’s Flower Power, kids will enjoy this collection of fun games.
Helps with: Physical Education
Learning Games for Kids: Health Games
What are some nutritious snacks or three common allergies? Kids in grades K-5 can learn about a range of health topics, from body parts to staying fit, with these interactive games.
Helps with: Health Science
Little Alchemy 2
This deceptively simple game is actually a lot of fun. Kids (and teachers!) can experiment with combining different elements, such as fire or dirt, to create something entirely new.
Helps with: Science
Minecraft: Education Edition
Kids love the regular Minecraft video game, but this education-focused version takes learning to the next level.
With lessons, STEM curriculum, and project-based challenges, this immersive digital environment promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Helps with: STEM
Moose Math
Moose Math engages kids in a mathematical adventure and teaches counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, geometry, and more. While playing five multi-level activities in the Moose Juice Store, Puck’s Pet Shop, and Lost & Found, kids can earn rewards to help build their own city and decorate buildings.
Helps with: Math
National Geographic Kids
Head out on the trail with Captain John Smith, explore Ancient Greece with Zeus the Mighty, or just take a quiz about sharks on this robust site filled with great games and activities for young learners.
Helps with: History, Science
PBS Kids Games
You’ll find everything from social studies to teamwork and feelings in this incredible collection of games that vary in degree of difficulty. The website is truly filled with some of the very best educational games!
Helps with: Science, Social Studies, History, Art
Prodigy Math
Looking for personalized math lessons for your students? Kids will take a Prodigy placement test that generates games tailored to their strengths and weaknesses.
They’ll build confidence by solving math challenges to progress in the game.
Helps with: Math
RoomRecess
Access over 140 online educational games for kids in grades K-6 on this site, which was developed by an elementary school teacher with a focus on reinforcing fundamental learning concepts in math, reading, spelling, language arts, typing, and problem-solving.
Helps with: Typing, Spelling, Language Arts, Reading, Math
Starfall
Starfall activities are research-based and align with individual and Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics. There are engaging and interactive games for students in grades K-3.
Helps with: Language Arts, Math
Sumdog
Teachers love this great site that offers personalized math and spelling practice for kids ages 5 through 13 through adaptive learning and multi-player games. This is definitely one of the best online educational game sites out there!
Helps with: Math, Spelling
Tate Kids
How good are your airbrush skills? Which famous artist should design your bedroom? Are you a master of street art? Kids can explore these questions and more with the cool quizzes and games on this art-focused site from the Tate Gallery.
Helps with: Art
Turtle Diary
Introduce kids to new, exciting ways of learning with the help of fun online games, videos, experiments, puzzles, coloring sheets, and more! Turtle Diary activities pair with the appropriate grade level to enhance retention of material and increase success in the classroom.
Helps with: Language Arts, Math, Science
Tynker
The games and challenges on Tynker give kids ages 5 and up a fun and easy way to build coding skills.
Helps with: Technology
Vocabulary Spelling City
Dive into engaging learning activities and games for kids in first through sixth grades, designed to promote vocabulary, spelling, phonics, and language arts.
Helps with: Spelling, Language Arts
Middle and High School Online Educational Games
Algebraic Reasoning Sweet Shop
Who doesn’t like candy? Buy and sell sweet treats in this game that helps students grasp concepts related to price and purchasing.
Helps with: Math
Boat Coordinates
Use this fun boating game to learn and practice concepts related to grids and quadrants. Race along the X and Y axes to get to the finish line as fast as you can!
Helps with: Math
Cells Alive
This information website provides all sorts of interactive ways to learn about cells! Interactive models, puzzles, and more all help tell the story of this building block of life.
Helps with: Science
Design a Space Station
NASA is designing a new space station and needs your help! Learn fascinating information about space and what it’s like to live there as you answer questions to help build a new space station.
Helps with: Science
GimKit
Created by a high school student, this interactive review game is something kids can play on their own devices, earning in-game money for correct answers that they can use to buy upgrades and power-ups!
Helps with: All subjects
GeoGuessr
This guessing game uses maps and photos from around the world to educate kids on world locations as well as historical landmarks and famous cities.
User-made quizzes add to the guessing fun!
Helps with: Geography, Social Studies
High-Stakes Heist
Kids use their knowledge of the order of operations to crack the safes and help hero Kit Foxtail return the townspeoples’ money that was stolen by the evil Duke von Wolfington. They’ll have to think fast as they try to solve equations in the correct order before time runs out!
Helps with: Math
iCivics
Help kids learn the foundations of civics and government with this collection of highly interactive games including Court Quest, Newsfeed Defenders, and Do I Have the Right?
Helps with: Social Studies
NASA Games for Grades 5-8
With several games, activities, and educational options to choose from, the NASA Stem @ Home for Students website offers a wide array of entertaining and informative options for grade 5-8 students!
Helps with: STEM
PhysicsGames
This website offers dozens of different simple games to choose from that help educate kids on the mechanics of physics.
Whether they are shooting pigs, knocking down walls, or trying to balance a building, they’ll learn and have fun at the same time.
Helps with: Science
PlayForward: Elm City Stories
Funded by NICHD/NIH and developed by the play2PREVENT Lab and Schell Games, PlayForward: Elm City Stories offers an engaging way to develop life skills to reduce risk among teens. Topics cover a range of behaviors including substance use, sexual health, academic dishonesty, and unsafe driving. Educators can request free access to the web-based game here.
Helps with: Health Science, Life Education
Red Remover
This addictive game will have both you and your students doing everything you can to try to remove the red blocks. Watch them “smile” as they fall and try to complete all the levels!
Helps with: Science
Science Brainteasers, Puzzles, and Riddles
Through a wide assortment of puzzles, riddles, brainteasers, and more, kids can learn about their own health and the health of the environment on this website from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Helps with: Health Science
Science Vocabulary Hangman
Use the clues to guess the scientific term before the cellular hangman disappears. Choose from literally hundreds of subject sets that include grade-specific vocab, state-level standardized tests, and more.
Helps with: Health Science
smokeSCREEN
As part of their #BeTheFirst Initiative, smokeSCREEN was developed by the play2PREVENT Lab, 1stPlayable, and Schell Games and funded by the NIH/FDA and the CVS Health Foundation. The game addresses the range of challenges that young teens face, with a dedicated focus on youth decision-making around smoking and vaping and strategies for both smoking prevention and cessation. Educators can request free access to the web-based game here.
Helps with: Life Education
Sortify: Angles
Learning about angles can be tricky, but this game uses cue cards and sorting bins to help students learn to properly classify angles into different categories.
Make sure they’re all correct and then submit the responses to earn the most points!
Helps with: Math
Quizlet
From flash cards to help students learn français to games that make it easy to get a handle on history, this site offers activities in a wide range of topics.
Helps with: Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Science
Trigonometry Minigolf
Trigonometry has never been more fun than in this game that uses correct answers to power your golf swing as you aim for a hole in one! Miss an answer? The game will let you know what you did wrong and give you another shot.
Helps with: Math
Wrecks Factor
S.O.S.! Ships are sailing into your harbor and you need to help keep them from sinking! Solve the quadratic equations to keep the boats afloat and clear the board … if you take too long, boats start to sink and you lose a life.
Helps with: Math
Do you have any favorite online educational games? Share in the comments below! Plus, check out our favorite online math games for every grade.
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BELEDUC Developing game "Farm Frenzy 2" art.22710
There is always something to do on the farm of Patrick and his parents. Patrick's father has long dreamed of a new tractor. Patrick had an idea - he just has to trade his
roosters and sheep for cows in order to finally surprise his father with a wonderful tractor.
On his way through the playing field, the player collects the painted animals. Upon reaching one of the two barns, he can exchange animals. Whoever manages to get two cows first gets a tractor and becomes the winner of the game.
Includes 53 wooden pieces: 1 game board, 4 game figures, 20 roosters, 15 sheep, 5 cows, 1 tractor figure, 3 signs, 3 shields, 1 die.
All parts are made of high quality materials, completely safe for small children.
Beleduc games are ideal for children's early development, long before they go to school, but also just for fun.
Beleduc games are perfect for parents and kids to play together. Some games will really appeal to adults who will be happy to get involved in the game process.
Thanks to this game your child will:
- learn to count, get acquainted with exchange, value and quantity relations;
- learns what different animals look like and are called and what they do in the farmyard;
- will develop fine motor skills by arranging animal figurines on the playing field;
- will develop speech skills by naming animals and explaining how the exchange takes place;
- will learn how to use freedom of action and gain role-playing skills.
About the author
John Eade developed his first game in 1976 in London while he was working as a tax inspector. There was no publisher for that football board game, so he, being an enthusiastic sports fan, founded his own publishing house, Supergames Ltd.
and attracted a well-known footballer to promote it. Other games from various publishers followed. The game "Farm Frenzy", which the author developed especially for his grandson, was released by "beleduc" in cooperation with Christian Beiersdorf's agency "Projekt Spiel" and in 20092009 received the "Deutschen Lernspielpreis" prize, which is awarded annually to the best educational games released in Germany. John Ide passed away in 2012 at the age of 77.
The plot of the game
There is always something to do on the farm of Patrick and his parents. Patrick's father has long dreamed of a new tractor. Patrick knows that his neighbor is going to sell his tractor. Naturally, the neighbor wants two cows for the tractor. However, Patrick's parents keep only roosters and sheep on their farm. Patrick had an idea - he just has to trade his roosters and sheep for cows in order to finally surprise his father with a wonderful tractor.
On his way through the playing field, the player collects painted animals.
Upon reaching one of the two barns, he can exchange animals. Whoever manages to get two cows first gets a tractor and becomes the winner of the game.
Preparing for the game
Place the playing field in the center of the table so that each participant in the game can easily reach it
; put a cube next to it. In addition, it is necessary to place all roosters, sheep and 90,035 cows in pastures specially provided for them. Insert signs in specially
provided for this holder and place them on the appropriate pastures.
Each player must choose one game piece and place it on one of the two haystacks
in front of the barns facing each other. At the end of the game, the main reward, the tractor,
is put in its place. The first player to start is the one who was recently in the farmyard.
The queue moves clockwise
Recommendations for educators:
| Counting and sorting (Age: 4+): | |
| Getting to know the animals of the peasant household (Age: from 4 years old): Discuss with the children why roosters, sheep, and cows are needed in a peasant | |
| Telling stories (Age: 4+): Play out scenes with the children on the playing field. |
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Educational the game "Merry ABC" is all the necessary basic knowledge in one toy! AT It provides a variety of games, tasks and tests. The toy will help learn the alphabet, learn new words for each letter and get to know the score. With the help of a talking watch, the child will learn to tell the time. And to learn it was fun and interesting, the kid will be able to get distracted and listen to 6 funny songs.
Cheerful The alphabet is equipped with a comfortable pen. During the game interactive keys are highlighted.
Toy works from 3 AA batteries on 1,5 V (not included in the package).
Alphabet size (LxWxH) is 39x4x30 cm. Production material: plastic.
