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Created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this site helps families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging challenges.

Figure This! helps families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging, high-quality middle school math challenges. Funding for the project was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Education.

Math Challeges for families, students, and teachers. Helping families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging, high-quality challenges.

An internet site which was created by parents to deliver fun and engaging learning content for children for free to keep them off of potential harmful and inappropriate web pages.

Kidthing keeps kids off Web Browsers and all of the inappropriate things but allows them to play fun engaging games. You can download the free kidthing player and try out demos to see if you enjoy it. There are a variety of games so every kid can find something they enjoy.

Gumtrail is a simple behavioral analytics tool that helps you make your site more interesting to your core audience. Gumtrail isolates your most engaged users and tells you what they like the most about your site, allowing you to make improvements that matter. Great tool for watching what your students look at the most on your website, possibly helping you notice their strengths and weaknesses. (This site was originally called GetGum from web2.0)

Brain Training Games sharpens your memory, helps you to stay focus longer, help you to think logically.

Mind360 highly engaging brain training games are designed to help strengthen key cognitive functions including Memory, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning, and Visual Perception etc., and all in enjoyable ways.

Mind360 provides engaging brain training games to help strengthen key cognitive functions including Memory, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning, and Visual Perception. Enjoy!

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...

Thinkwave in trying to advance the way teachers manage classroom information, and to engage parents and students in the education process, by making it easy to share classroom information online, such as grades.

Classroom resources such as lesson plans, clip art, puzzle maker.

Discovery Education provides classroom and home resources by subject to help improve student achievement.

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

This website for educator and student use is a tool for engaging and exploring math content area reading. Reinforcement inludes book cues, bio-cubes, and animal facts that can be used to make math lessons more fun.

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

This site provides book reviews for students from elementary and middle grade students. Students are also the reviewers, providing authenticity for other students. There is also school involvement from all over the world and class or student home pages can be created. Students can "read books, engage in book talks, discuss the elements of a book review, read and discuss reviews, write group reviews to practice writing summaries opinions and recommendations, work on their own reviews read their reviews for feedback from their peers, and publish their reviews."

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

HomeworkSpot.com is a free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one high-utility, educational spot.

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Great way to engage your students. You can find Bill Nye The Science Guy and School House Rock here. There is alot on the Science of Disney Imagineering.

"The Factor Game engages students in a friendly contest in which winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors. Students are then guided through an analysis of game strategies and introduced to the definitions of prime and composite numbers." Excellent

The most important thing students must have in order to learn is engagement. If you're a teacher and you're having a tough time thinking of a new and fun strategy to use in your lesson, visit this site and hopefully one of these will work for you!

Mind360 is profoundly committed to enhancing and maintaining people's mental fitness through a new cutting-edge online cognitive training platform. Mind360 highly engaging brain training games are designed to help strengthen key cognitive functions including Memory, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning, and Visual Perception etc., and all in enjoyable ways.

Private wiki for k-12