aclJohn's Games finds

WhizKidGames is a site that those engaged in Family Learning show find the time to visit.

WhizkidGames allows children to freely play interactive games and listen to stories; this can be enhanced by opening the site window in fullscreen mode.

Take a closer look at http://www.whizkidgames.com/.

Another set of resources aimed at 'children' that can also be used by older learners; practitioners looking for some engaging activities to supplement their classroom instruction on environmental science would do well to browse through the games and activities offered by EcoKids.

EcoKids, a Canadian-based organization, provides free resources for teaching and learning about topics in environmental science.

Note: The resources designed for practitioners require registration, but the reso...

Game Classroom provides engaging and educational games for learners, and their collaboration with top educators ensures that all the games are level-appropriate, relevant and compliant with academic standards. 

Game Classroom promotes education, imagination and literacy…while always making sure learners have fun!

As always I wish such website would avoid using the words kids/children etc. as this puts of many older learners, who could benefit from using the resources.

Visit http://w...

ProProfs Brain Games lets practitioners create simple online games for their learners without expending too much time or effort. The game varieties include...

• crosswords;
• word searches;
• jigsaw puzzles; and so on.

ProProfs does the hard work of configuring the puzzles themselves, meaning practitioners just have to come up with questions and answers.

These games provide the means to make formative assessment a little more interactive.

Find out more at http://www.proprofs.com/games/create-...

SmartyGames is a great site with several interactive activities and games for younger learners in the area of...

• maths,
• reading,
• time telling, etc. 

Many of the games and activities work well with an IWB like the Tell Time quiz.

Note: - In the reading section both an English and Spanish is offered. 

If you are an family learning practitioner looking for some fun, engaging, free, advertisement free, interactive activities and games you may want to pop over and check out SmartyGames a...

A matrix shows 100 or 25 problems (depending upon the game chosen). Users can choose...

• additions, or
• subtractions, or
• multiplications.

The target number is above the matrix.

Press/click/tap on the field, in the matrix, that matches the target number.

With a correct choice, the field will change colour. The aim of the user/class (if used on an interactive whiteboard [IWB]) is to try to get

• either five coloured fields in a row (if the 5 TIC TAC GO game is chosen) or
• three coloured fie...

A game to improve...

• mouse skills as well as helping with
• single digit addition.

Ideal for Family Learning and/or Functional Skills...

Try it out at http://avenscorner.com/fireflies.aspx.

GeoDart is a geography trivia game where users answer geographical questions by placing darts in the correct locations on the map.

With the UMapper platform, you can build your own GeoDart game for any locale and use any questions on any map!

Visit http://www.umapper.com/pages/geodart/ to find out more and/or to produce your own.

Super Math Games has some limited free games that work very well on Interactive White Boards (IWBs). 

Click on the “guest” login.  The free games are indicated by the green check marks;

Free games include...

• Algebra
  • Quadratic Equations
  • Sequences
  • Shaded Regions
• Data
  • Stem & Leaf
  • Tallying
  • Tree Diagrams
• Number
  • Negative Numbers
  • Number Lines
  • Percentages 1 & 2
• Shape
  • Measuring Angles
  • Perimeter
  • Pythagoras' Theorem
• Kids
  • Percentages
  • Place Value
  • Probability
• Expert
  
  • Logarithms
  • Quadratics
  • Radian...