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This multiplication game, designed by Big Brainz, is an addictive way to get your students to learn their multiplcation facts. This is a real first person game that takes students through many levels of learning. Students don't want to stop playing this game and don't even realize how much they're learning.

From the website: "This 2008 ethnographic study for Consumer Reports WebWatch reveals that very young children are using online games and Web sites to play and learn, yet many of the games and sites are designed to manipulate children for the sake of commerce and promote the idea of commercialism. The online games observed in the study were found to vary widely in terms of quality, educational value, and their developmental match with children's abilities."

Funbrain (and counterparts like Mathbrain) is a fun, interactive game environment where students can go to brush up on skills already taught or attempt new ones based on teacher guidance. The site offers a curriculum guide and standards finder in order for teachers to properly target the games. Games can be played in conjunction with lessons in the classroom, or students can benefit from using the program in the computer lab or at home.

This is an interactive game that teaches fractions. Students learn about the many ways a fraction, and in this case one-half, can be represented. This game is part of the PBS Kids Cyberchase collection of pages. PBS Kids is a very helpful site the provides many features for students, teachers, and parents.

I will throw this in with software, even though it is a site. Jay Is Games are the premier bloggers associated with casual games, many of which have mathematical and puzzle components. It's a good place to start to look for casual (and often educational!) "time-wasters."

PowerPoint Games and templates.

In this short lecture, Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest sites WebQuests and QuestGarden, talks about the way to view learning games with this equation: Power = Attention x Depth x Efficiency. It actually applies to other uses of technology, not just games

Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games for Students and Teachers. Great tools where student can even play each other for competition.

Lots of simple, but fun, educational games are available here. Some are even playable on the Nintendo Wii, believe it or not!

Scratch is a Web 2.0 programming environment for beginners, where kids can use a simple programming syntax to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web. Students use built-in sprites or they can draw their own. Once the student finishes the game or animation, they can publish it online.

LeapFrog recently released the LeapFrog 2 educational gaming system. Several software titles are available for students of various ages. The new system connects to the LeapFrog Learning Path, which is an online tool that allows parents and/or teachers the ability to monitor progress.

This lesson plan--sure to be popular!--asks students to participate in a debate on whether video games help with literacy, based on a NYTimes article by Motoko Rich. This lesson allows kids to be reflective and analyze the differences between media beyond the debate question itself.

Can be used in math as a game for counting and skip counting when learning math concepts in the classroom

Math practice site. Can do activities online or print them out. Flashcards, games, and worksheets area available with the user able to customize the worksheets and cards to what they need.

creates online quizes and games-easy to use

creates online quizes and games-easy to use; requires account; great for smartboard

Students learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states. These games include a "learning" option and a "playing" option. Students locate the state, place the state (beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels), state postal abbreviations, state capitals (beginner, intermediate, advanced), and state clues (intermediate, advanced).

For those Early Childhood and/or preschool teachers, Baby Smash is a free "keyboard banger" game for very young kids (ages 1-3 years). It disables all system keys such as ctrl-esc, alt-tab and the Windows key, so that the kids do not exit the program accidentally or harm the computer. When the child hits the keys, colored shapes and letters will appear on the screen. The names of the shapes and colors will be read out loud, as well as the names of the letters. Babysmash for Windows (created by Scott Hanselman) is a copy of the Alpha Baby software for Macintosh. It requires the .NET framework version 3.5 to be installed.

SuperKids is a great educational software review site. The site provides rating scales for educational value, kid appeal, age ranges, and ease of use. They also delve into system requirements, price comparisons, and product support. This particular review is on a program called Words Rock! This is a strong drill and test vocabulary/spelling/grammar program, hidden in a search game. The educational component would be attractive to parents and teachers, as well as to students looking to challenge themselves.

Students experience life as a water droplet as they play this online game. You can also go back into the NASA website to find information on the Hydrologic Cycle. There students can learn about the five processes: condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and evapotranspiration.

The National Center for Educational Statistics created this site to help students and parents learn about school systems, plan for college, play math games, take math quizzes, participate in probability and graphing exercises, and much more. The "Create a Graph" feature comes in handy when teaching bar graphs, pie graphs, and line graphs in lower elementary.

this gives kids games and extra resources to use in the classroom