Subtangent is a website well worth a visit; it provides several flash games including a few which mimic the letters and the numbers rounds from the Countdown TV show.

The Subtangent website was produced by Duncan Keith, a Maths teacher here in England (UK).

The "Numbers and Letters" game is available at http://www.subtangent.com/maths/numbers-and-letters.php...

For...

• Literacy lessons – choose a mixture of vowels and consonants and then see who can make the longest word from the ...

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...