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"PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!."

This looks like a great site for teaching and learning geography, history and some science topics. I checked the Terms of Use and there is no age limit. Your can play the games anonymously. However, to make a game you need to sign up for an account. All you need is an email. I can definitely see a good use for this for teachers to make games for students. However, I think it would be really cool to have students create games based on curriculum topics. This could be a good intro to learning simple programming such as Scratch.

Math games that are able to be downloaded as an app for ipads, and ipods, allows students to play these games on the go.

Great site for games and apps which is perfect for lower level math classes, or students who need extra practice on their basic skills.

Definitely know that several of my students could still benefit from the basic skills these games would provide.

Add questions to a traditional Tetris game. The game pauses to ask the students questions. It deletes a row if they answer the question correctly.

Safe games for kids...Internet safe games for kids that test your skills and knowledge - KidsCom.com.

Free web games created by certified teachers for learning. Cataloged by grade level appropriateness.  Elementary only, sorry Intermediate/High School!

A cool website where you can create your own game! (Yes, another discovery through LTMS603, but it's very cool!)

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running. Not interested in building your own jeopardy templates? Well that's cool too. You can browse other jeopardy templates created by other people. It doesn't get any better than this!

Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications. Create games, build mashups, design webpages.

Here's a list of links and descriptions for a wide range of serious games aimed at sparking social change.

Social Studies/Government Role Playing Game. This project was created by Arizona educators and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The language and game are meant for Middle School students.

This site contains free to use interactive games for learning languages and links to study resources. Games require the use of Flash Player. It includes over 50 dialects.

This is an article about the use of games in education - it's VERY LONG, but in section 8 there is a summary of the best points. Lisa, David and I are taking LTMS603 about gaming in education and I think this article makes a lot of good arguments for why we should try to use it!

Students love any on-line games. Try these out.

Such a fun way to use technology! Your students will have a blast.

Project THIS one out about ten years - when textbook makes begin to produce this for schools. WOW!

Project THIS one out about ten years - when textbook makes begin to produce this for schools. WOW! IT's just fun and games, now, but THINK of the possibilities!

OMG!!! Do I feel stupid.

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This is a good web site that students can play the stock market. Students can research companies, trade, etc. and it allows them to build a portfolio. It also has videos to use for teaching the stock market and some fun games. It also allows for blogging with others who are playing the game. I used this with my General Business class while studying stocks. I did have to get special permission from Tech. to allow students to set up a gmail account.

Learn how to read the different features of Google Maps in this cube game.

Animal Quizzes At our site, we have hundreds of free, online, educational games for kids. But anyone interested in online learning can use our site - we have so many subjects - (geography, math, animals, science) and many levels, games and activities for learners of any age.