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Fun and free educational games for kids in K-8. Featuring multiplayer learning games, math games, language arts games, and much more! Students can create real-time, online private games for up to 12 players and race for skill practice.

Sporcle is one of the most addicting, trivia based, gaming web sites that students will enjoy for reviewing content or new material pre-testing. Instructors can create their own content using anyone of the three major delivery methods. Image identification, fill in the blanks, or answer bank selection. Students challenge themselves to answer the questions before time runs out and then scored based on percentage completed. Once the game is over, students are revealed the correct answered and where they fall in the percentages of games played. Sporcle is free and can be run on any platform or web browser. Games or test are easily created using manually entry or loaded from a document. Sporcle allows all users to create content giving everyone opportunity to add content specific to unique topics. Once content is created, the links can be shared and the data is view able for all users to see and collect.

This is a great resource for history teachers or social studies teachers. This site is a multi-level, interactive game where students become a fictional character in history. The two time periods they can play in are the American Revolution and the Civil War. In each game, students make choices based on scenarios and conversations they listen to and watch. Then the game progresses based on their choices. There are multiple paths the game can take, which makes it different when different kids play - generating great conversations. it is a long game - this will take at least two or three full class periods to play. Best for elementary/early middle school.

Really amazing games with lots of levels. In the geography section alone, there are nine levels that range from perfect for second grade to challenging for middle school.

Science Kids is a site designed to help students understand different science topics. It has different sections: games, experiments, facts, and quizzes. The games allow the student to test their knowledge. They give instant feedback to the student. The experiments allow the student to try different experiments at home. They give a list of supplies and the science behind the experiment and results. This site is great for reinforcing different scientific concepts. It has both life and physical sciences topics. The games are more beneficial when reviewing a unit as opposed to the end of a lesson. This site would be beneficial for a teacher to use inside the classroom for quick reinforcement when a student may have some time at a computer. The teacher might also reference the site at a parent/teacher conference or open house.

This site is a great resource for teaching social studies. It has about 100 games and animations on every level. Some of the best stuff on the web is found here

Official website for Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This site includes videos and descriptions of all the characters. There are some games like crosswords but they are kinda lame.

This is a great site for kids and teachers. Ms. Warner likes the standards part. You enter your school username and password. Do the assignments in oder if possible. We like the games part. It's sorted by grade level so if you want to make it harder you can. It tells you if you make a mistake it shows you what you got wrong.

This is an incredibly detailed website with lengthy and detailed multi-level interactive games for students to learn about Congress, the Supreme Court, the legislative process, running for President, and more. It requires some background knowledge but for middle or high school students (and some elementary), it's a great way to learn and teach!

Socrative is a student response system. It can be used with any laptop or smartphone. Teachers can create or share quizzes, polling questions, or exit tickets. Socrative allows the teacher to see in real time students' answers. The students also receive instant results. It also has a racing game in which students can work individually or in groups. Socrative seems to be a great resource for any teacher. Teachers are able to give instant feedback to students. Given this, teachers would be able to adjust their teaching to reinforce concepts or reteach concepts. Socrative would be easy to integrate into any classroom as long as the teacher has access to laptops or the students are allowed to use their phones in the classroom.

Socrative is an amazing resource! It's perfect for a BYOD school!