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Science:
Weather
Crossword puzzle can be customized for beginner, intermediate,
or advanced
Science
Education at Jefferson Lab - try the interactive games
... students will love them, and learn about atoms and elements
in the process!
FunBrain
Periodic Table Game (http://www.funbrain.com/periodic/index.html)
- Online interactive game - Test your knowledge of chemistry
and the elements.
Solar
Word Search game can be set for beginner, intermediate
or advanced.
Math:
University
of Toronto Mathematics Network - contains a variety
of mathematical resource material, games, questions, and answers.
A+ Math -
Created just for kids, this colorful, interactive math site
is educational and fun, although some of the games do not provide
feedback. Highlights include flash cards, games, and the homework
helper, where students enter a problem and find out if their
solution is correct. Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School
funbrain.com
- featuring interactive and educational math games for kids
of all ages, including Math
Baseball and Change
Maker. These games can be tailored in difficulty for
students in K-8, and might be useful as review in 9-12.
English:
Alphabets - Write your name in wild, exotic alphabets, syllabaries,
and ideographics:
Etymologic:
The Toughest Word Game on the Web (http://www.etymologic.com/playgame.cgi)
- In this game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected
word origin or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case
the word or phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible
answers will be presented. You need to choose the correct answer
to score a point for that question.
Fake-Out
- A definition guessing game for 3 levels of students; k-2,
3-5, 6+. Students guess the definition of a chosen word. But
the real fun comes from submitting their own fake definition
for the next week's word.
Word Oddities and Trivia
- Palindromes, long words, short words, sentences with the entire
alphabet in them, plus scads of other verbal oddities.
Palindromes
- Words and phrases that are spelled the same way forwards or
backwards.
You
Make the Story (Plaid-Libs) (http://www.billsgames.com/plaidlibs/)
- children supply adjectives, adverbs, verbs, nouns and
pronouns (singular and plural) and then a silly story is generated
from the words they supplied.
YourDictionary.com
(http://www.yourdictionary.com) - This site has many
word games you will love. They have the richest assortment of
crossword puzzles on the planet: anagram puzzles, cryptic puzzles,
Roman and Arabic numeral puzzles, study puzzles for geography,
physics, astronomy, Spanish and the Bible, puzzles with holiday
messages, with graphics and web links.
Vocabulary University
- Vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. These exercises
help prepare for SSAT, PSAT, GED, SAT and ACT tests, they supplement
personal vocabulary acquisition, and are being used in home-schooling
and ESL programs.
Word brain
teasers - For example, what does "go it it it it" represent?
Go for it (go 4 it, get it ;-). If that one interests you go
see the hundreds of word brain teasers on this page.
The Word
Detective on the Web is the online version of The Word
Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about
words and language.
Word PI -
The computer will think of a 5-letter word. This word will
not have any repeated letters (words like "testy" or "foods" won't
appear). You're job is to guess words until you find out what
the computer is thinking. This is like Mastermind with
letters instead of colors.
WordScram
is a word puzzle game! Each player takes turns trying to make
words out of a collection of randomly picked letters. You can
only use each letter only once, and the word must be in English.
There is a version which only allows 60 seconds and encourages
fast thinking.
