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Learning Games & Activities Library Media Center Bardonia Elementary School
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| Mr. Frerichs' Information Challenge | Toughest game you ever played | |
| Library Joke of the Week | ||
| Library Skills Game | Grades 3-5: Created by Mr. Frerichs | |
| Power to Learn |
http://powertolearn.com/games/index.shtml Cablevision's Power to Learn contains a variety of learning games that use Macromedia Flash. |
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| PBS Kids Web License | Learn Internet safety skills and facts about the Internet. | |
| Library Millionaire | This game is always new and challenging. | |
| Windward! |
http://www.ciconline.org/windward Outsmart the weather in this virtual around-the-world sailing race from Cable in the Classroom, Discov-ery Education, NASA, and The Weather Channel. Learn about pressure systems, currents,and weather, and explore their effects on naviga-tion and sailing. |
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| Xpedition Hall |
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall An excellent tool to show the connection between people and environment, this National Geographic Channel site features interactives related to geography, human systems, the environment and society, and physical systems, as well as lesson plans and standards for different grade levels. |
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| MrNussbaum.com |
www.mrnussbaum.com This site has maps, Mayan math monsters, and other games. from a fourth grade teacher's website. |
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| FunBrain: Kids |
www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html Games for many subjects, including Spanish, English, and sign languages; the periodic table; sheet-music reading; and math. Each game has several levels of difficulty and content choices that can be used to adapt lessons within a differentiated classroom or over several different grades. |
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| FableVision |
www.fablevision.com This site has animated shorts, interactive art, games and stories by Emmy Award-winning children’s author Peter Reynolds. |
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| Funschool |
http://funschool.kaboose.com/ Play challenging, educational games, with topics ranging from math, geography, and history to spelling and language arts. |
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http://www.quiz-tree.com
Quiz Tree contains dozens of interactive quizzes on topics such as Elementary Math, Fractions, Spanish, Geography, SAT Verbal and Spelling. Some of the quizzes include audio clips and graphics. All quizzes feature animated interface, feedback sounds and other enhancements that make learning more enjoyable. New content is added periodically and educators are encouraged to contact Quiz Tree with requests for new quizzes on topics useful to their students. |
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/brain_explorer/
If you're looking for meaningful enrichment activities in the form of challenging, yet entertaining games and puzzles, this may be just what you need. The riddles, illusions, and other mental adventures are taken from the Brain Explorer, a book written for children from age 9 to 12. Brain-bending games include Memory Solitaire, Welcome to the Third Dimension, and Jumping to Conclusions. Some are entirely "on-line interactive," while others require some effort with paper and pencil. Created by the Exploratorium. |
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| Grades 3-5: This activity was created by Mrs. Johnson, Library Media Specialist at Link Elementary School, Clarkstown CSD. | ||
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St. Joseph School Library collection of library related activities. | |
| This site has a lot of ads, but the learning games are very good. | ||
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DiscoveryKids |
Interactive fun tied to the channel's programs, plus games, fan sites, and cool learning sites by topic. |
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This Web site offers activities especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. | |
| Games from NASA | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration offers an excellent variety of learning sites. | |
| Animal Planet: Students must answer wildlife trivia questions to help Corwin get from Indonesia, where he is shooting photos, back to his home in Boston, Mass. | ||
| Kid’s Clubhouse Brain Teasers |
Houghton Mifflin’s Education Place poses new brain teasers each week. They include: riddles, logic problems, and story problems that deal with mathematics. |
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| Fake Out |
Houghton Mifflin’s Education Place presents definitions for vocabulary words. Students try to avoid being “faked out” by choosing the correct definitions. |
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| Science Activities | http://www.smm.org/explore/ An excellecn collection of science activities from the Science Museum of Minnesota. | |
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| eField Trips you can take | ||
| Climbing Denali (Password is GEAR ) | ||
| Brown v. Board National Historical Site (Password is equal) | ||
