ClassTools.net is a free service teachers can use to create their own educational games. Games made on ClassTools.net can be shared via email or embedded into a blog or website.
Sharendipity makes it possible for students and teachers to quickly create and share simple video games. Sharendipity's drag and drop creation tools can be used to create a game in as few as four steps. For new Sharendipity users the tutorials provide clear directions and helpful game ideas. Games created on Sharendipity can be embedded in your blog or website.
Purpose Games is a free service that allows users to create custom games, share games, and play games. There are two styles of games that you can create and play on Purpose Games. The simpler of the two styles is a fairly basic multiple choice game. The other style uses images and maps on which players have to name the places represented by placemarks on the image or map. For an example, try this game about the skeletal system.
What 2 Learn is a website
offering more than two thousand educational games for middle school and
high school age students. If that library doesn't have what they're
looking for, teachers can create custom games using twelve different
templates provided by What 2 Learn. What 2 LearnWhat 2 Learn
is a European based website so some of the games, particularly the
math games where money is expressed as Euros and Pounds, may not be
appropriate for US students.
also offers teachers the option to monitor their students' scores.
Atmoshir 3D adventure game and creation tool. This is a very cool tool to design your own worlds and game experiences. While it can be seen as a simple fun application, there are possibilities to make this part of most any curriculum. For instance, imagine creating the world of a famous novel or making a game based on some historical battle. A great deal of fun and fairly easy to learn.
YoYo Games hosts hundreds
of relatively simple online games created by amateur and professional
game developers. That's not why I'm pointing it out to you. I'm
pointing it out because YoYo Games offers a free (for PC) game
development tool called Game Maker 8.
Game Maker 8 enables users to develop simple video games using a drag
and drop editor. Game Maker 8 gives users the ability to customize
backgrounds and actions throughout their games. For the first-time user
YoYo Games offers a series of free Game Maker 8 tutorials.
Powerpoint Games-Powerpoint TV quiz show games templates.
Jeopardy Labs is a free service you can use to create your own online Jeopardy game. Jeopardy Labs provides a blank template on which to build your game. You do not need to register in order to build your own game. However, if you want to be able to edit your game at a later point you will want to create a password before you create your game. When completed your game is given its one unique url. Post that url on your blog, wiki, or website and anyone can then play your game.
ProProfs Brain Games allows you to build interactive crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word searches, hangman games, and sliding puzzle games. The games you create can be embedded into your blog or shared via email, Twitter, Facebook, or Myspace. If you don't want to take the time to create your own game, you can browse the gallery of games. All of the games in gallery can be embedded into your blog.
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phet which is a website that hosts a wide variety of science and math simulations. The simulations permit scientific experimentation and discovery in a fun, engaging environment. Students enjoy playing with them while they are learning!
Molecular Workbench Molecular Workbench is a cross platform (Java) application that allows students to run simulations on all kinds of scientific content. I use the simulations for classroom demonstrations and then have students work with them individually as virtual labs.
vmathlive.com because it allows students as young as first grade to practice their math skills in "friendly" competition with students all over the world. Students bring up the math games and play them with students from different countries. There is a map that shows in real time the students' locations.
Bridebuilder. A simple bridge simulation that allows students to design their own bridges that must hold a weight. I used this as a way to give my students a common experience that was also flexible enough to give them a comfortable start.
Quia Activities. Quia.com provides a way for teachers to create games and quizzes online for student use at school or home. I teach my weekly vocabulary words on Quia. Kids study using the games at home, and they take their quizzes via the Quiz Maker feature.
Energyville - http://ecogamer.org/environmental-games/energyville-energy-game/. Energyville is a game that allows users to choose future energy options while building a virtual city. Students who are enrolled in Environmental Science class must develop a plan for new and renewable energy sources while building their new city. The game displays the many challenges faced when making decisions that could potentially have global impacts.
Logger Lite. An online program used in conjunction with weights, sleds, friction boards, and force sensors to teach students how to measure the force of friction when dragging various masses over various surfaces. When teaching Newton's Laws, this program is used to help students investigate and understand scientific principles and technological applications of work, force, and motion through hands-on experimentation. Students work in small groups to conduct the experiment using friction boards with three different surfaces (smooth, coarse, sandpaper), three different weights (aluminum, lead, brass) and a sled attached to a sensor connected to the logger lite program. It is recommended that the same student pull the sled, at the same speed, for each trial. The sensor records the force for each trial. Students manually record their observations on a lab sheet. Students are also asked to compare the differences in accuracy of measurement using the computer sensor and the spring scale for measuring forces.
Food Force . Food Force is a free online game from the United Nations World Food Program. Food Force sends children ages 8 to 13 on six realistic aid missions; serves as a classroom tool for teaching about hunger.
Fantastic Contraption. http://fantasticcontraption.com/. An online physics
puzzle game with many levels. Requires you to watch an ad before beginning to
play.http://www.wfp.org/how-to-help/individuals/food-force. There are several
different missions one can undertake.
Immune Attack from the Federation of American Scientists, for PC (not Mac).
See http://fas.org/immuneattack/. Quoting from the Website:
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) presents Immune Attack™, an
educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to
high school and entry-level college students. Designed as a supplemental learning
tool, Immune Attack aims to excite students about the subject, while also
illuminating general principles and detailed concepts of immunology.
Science Simulation games for middle and High schoolers
Rollercoaster. See http://www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/. Quoting from
the Website:This simulator is designed for people who want to design their own thrilling
coaster and educators who want to use a cool activity to simulate the application
of physics by using an exciting interactive tool and access to a wonderful
reference source.It is your mission to design the coaster so that you can achieve maximum thrills and chills without crashing or flying off the track (unless that’s how you like your coaster to work!).
Roller Coaster. http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster/.
Try your hand at designing your own roller coaster. You will be building a
conceptual coaster using the physics concepts that are used to design real coasters.
You won't need to compute any formulas. You will decide the following - the height of the first hill, the shape of the first hill, the exit path, the height of the second hill, and the loop.
When you're done, your coaster will need to pass an inspection for both safety and
fun.