This website is full of games that allows students to learn while only concentrating on having fun on the game that they are playing. This website is especially made for kids in elementary school students but is fun for anyone.
This site is a great way to learn, but not in a boring way. It helps the viewer work but it never gets boring because it is interactive! When the viewer has pick the category, the site pulls up multiple websites(interactive websites) that will be pleasing a fun to learn with. So you learn and have fun at the same time.
JeopardyLabs allows teachers to create Jeopardy type games, containing content-based questions for review. This site provides an easy alternative to power-point for teachers to create jeopardy games to use as an easy and fun way to review information.
ZType is a fun typing game that challenges players to type quickly. Words fall from the top of the screen and you have to type them. When you have correctly typed a word your laser shoots it. The object of the game is to shoot the words before they reach the bottom of the screen.
ZType is a good tool for students who need to improve their typing abilities. Students entering Patrick Taylor who didn't have a lot of computer access prior to attending will particularly gain from this game because typing is a necessary skill here.
Synthesia is a wonderful program that I have used personally on numerous occasions. Synthesia offers a fun and easy way to learn quick songs on piano. This program is appealing to young talented music/music prep/ music theory students because this program teaches in the way of a game similar to rock band or guitar hero.
Is a fun way to learn about court cases and the jury system.
The website allows you to choose from different civil cases, and analyze evidence. There are other fun games that allow you to test your knowledge in civics and learn knew things at the same time.
Having watched many of CGP Grey's videos on their channel, I have first-hand experience that these videos are both fun and extremely educational. Although they may not cover subjects that will always be relevant to the material learned in class at any given time, these videos act as both interesting fun facts and important world lessons.
Ribbon Hero is a downloadable game which provides a fun an intuitive way to learn how to use Microsoft Office. It combines with Microsoft Office to create interactive missions such as changing the font or creating exploded pie charts. Overall, Ribbon Hero is a fun way to teach Microsoft Office skills.
This is the Smithsonian's website It has a pretty virtual tour with interesting and good information. This is s great site to have fun learning about history and science.
This site allows you to create trading cards for any purpose. you could create cards filled with historical facts about a person (fictional or real). You could fill the card with information about a landmark or location. you could even use this site to create cards for a game. To sum it up, this website could be used to study or play a nice card game that you just created.
Make education fun again! Quizdini is an easy Web 2.0 tool that helps teachers teach and students learn, for free! Create engaging multiple-choice quizzes (though we prefer to think of them as games) where you control the content, and let your students learn at their own pace!
This is a relatively new, free presentation making software for the iPad. A special factor to this site is that it limits the amount of words on a slide so that you won't fill the slide with words and stay concentrated on the visual.