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PowerPoint Games and Game Templates Templates and directions for a variety of whole class and individual games for content recall.

create your own interactive games for class use, or use some of the posted games, Includes directions for each type of game, mostly variations of matching.

Why Teach Video Game Development Students are immediately attracted and engaged with video games. The fastest-growing segment of the entertainment market, computer and video games are expected to surpass movie box-office revenues by 2007. From script writ

educational gaming company focused on delivering innovative and effective educational games to students and institutions. The games have all of the action adventure fun associated with mainstream games while simultaneously providing an efficient learning

on-line game focused on energy use

grades 7-9, teacher and students register to set up.

free games focused on major social issues, ie health care, diseas, food, climate change, politics

The Best Online Video Games For Learning Language & Content (history & lit materials mentioned here)

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA's research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vig

a delicious collection of lingamesks on educational

"Spongelab is all about awesome science visuals: from microscopic images to breathtaking 3D video games." Free content, annual cost for recording features

"Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations. Learning figurative language gives students at the elementary school, middle school, and high school levels the ability to transform their pencils into paintbrushes, as they paint a picture with their words. VocabularySpellingCity can give your students this gift by providing figurative language lessons and exercises that will establish an understanding of the main types of figurative language."

economics curriculum, which uses games and multimedia in an effort to make the subject more engaging for middle school and high school students.

economics curriculum, which uses games and multimedia in an effort to make the subject more engaging for middle school and high school students.

Online simulations that deal with social issues, includes brief description of play and use

"The Digital Dialects website features free to use interactive games for learning languages. Language sections are updated regularly and new sections are under development. This site requires the use of Macromedia Flash Player."

It's important to match the tools used to teach information literacy with the level of the students. Developed by educators, the Big6 includes many tools and lessons for the teacher. Written by librarians at Cardiff University, the Handbook of Information Literacy Teaching or HILT has many helpful tips, handouts and lesson plans. The 21st Century Information Fluency portal has created online games and tutorials for many different level of student.

UNICEF Voices of Youth focuses on the serious problems faced by youth in different parts of the world from the perspective of a young person. The site includes an interactive game that helps students to explore the problem of HIV/AIDS. The game called "

interactive game

evolution is the Education Arcade's multi-player, American Revolution-themed role-playing game based on historical events in the town of colonial Williamsburg. Set in 1775, on the eve of violent revolt in the colony of Virginia, the game gives students an

Environmental Detectives (ED), is an outdoor game in which players using GPS guided handheld computers try to uncover the source of a toxic spill by interviewing virtual characters and conducting large scale simulated environmental measurements and analyz