Is everyone ready for a (virtual) vacation?!
City Guesser is a geography based browser game that strives to provide an exceptional travel and guessing experience.
If you love GeoGuessr - you'll love this!
Choose the world, a continent or even Canada to explore!
Play Pac Man (or other games) to review 21st century skills. This an example of a student made game!
To make more games, just simply click "Create a new game" on the bottom of the screen to create your own.
This site has an amazing variety of tools that students can use to share their learning.
Let your students have voice and choice!
Some of the best choices on this site include
FAKEBOOK - kids can make a mock facebook page ONLINE for a historical figure, or a character in a novel. Etc.
PAC MAN & ARCADE GAMES -transform your quiz into a trivia Pac Man game. The kids have to answer questions to play and if they die they must answer more questions to continue. The kids can make their own trivia games as well. This could be a great final product and you could play it on the smartboard as a class to evaluate it.
FAKE NEWS Headlines - this would be great for an important event in a novel, or current events, or historical info!
QR CODE TREASURE HUNT – no Internet needed. Kids can create these; or you could!
BURGER ESSAY PLANNER -students can plan and organized essays with the provided structure!
Other Options include: timers, turn your text into a Star Wars theme, 3D gallery, fake Twitter, random name picker, etc!
This site provides links and information on 9 classic board games that you can play online: (downloads with Android or iOS)
1. CATAN UNIVERSE (free)
2. BOGGLE WITH FRIENDS (free)
3. CLUE (paid)
4. BATTLESHIP (free)
5. MONOPOLY (paid)
6. SCATTERGORIES (free)
7. RISK: GLOBAL DOMINATION (free)
8. SCRABBLE GO (free)
9. THE GAME OF LIFE (paid)
Learn about and play games related to classical music and its composers.
Climate Challenge is a single-player game about climate change, playable for free on the BBC website. It is a sandbox-style strategy game based on real climate change data, where the player can try out different approaches, learn about the issues and have fun at the same time.
This game is played on an online map of a fictitious city. Players are challenged to complete an assigned trip in the most environmentally friendly way possible while staying within time constraints. The Climate Kids website is a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.
This online game allows participants to maneuver solar panels and a wind turbine in order to provide electricity to light five homes. Background information on sources of electricity- fossil fuels, solar energy and wind energy- is also presented. This lesson is part of the Climate Kids website, a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.
The site features an online game in which participants keep recyclable items out of the trash by guiding them into proper bins. Accompanying the game is a list of three categories of items that can be recycled, along with the benefits of doing so. This lesson is part of the Climate Kids website, a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.
This thematic unit from Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C. is aimed at Grade 6 Core French students, but is suitable for younger grades and would be easily adaptable for older ones. It is focused on oral practice and participation and would also be useful in primary French Immersion classes!Content Authors: Comox Valley Schools, Learn71, Beth Peddle
Get your students coding in no time!
CodeMonkey is a fun and educational game-based environment where kids learn to code without any prior experience. After completing CodeMonkey's award-winning coding courses, kids will be able to navigate through the programming world with a sense of confidence and accomplishment.
CodeNames is a great game to play with your friends. All you do is:
- create a room
- choose the language of the word cards and start the game
- share the room URL with your friends
- have fun!
Kids can use Codeable Crafts to create simple animated stories. Give kids a general theme (for example, what did you do over the summer break?) and let them use their imaginations to create stories on that theme. Talk about storytelling, such as following a story arc and introducing characters. Kids can work on their language and verbal skills as they narrate their story. Save the stories and show them to the class. For a tech or computer class, Codeable Crafts can be a starter app for introducing programming. Carefully explain and explore what each coding block does, and give kids lots of room to experiment on their own.
Download from the App Store or Google Play.
This site offer a comprehensive coding platform has impressive resources for teachers. This learn-to-code program has the breadth and depth required to meet the needs of almost any teacher. The aim is to help teachers and families inspire the next generation of computer scientists.
Anyone can learn computer science! Over 70 million students have learned on Code.org!
Get started coding today. Our courses and activities are free! Create an account to save your projects.
Code.org® is an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K-12 education. The program increases diversity in computer science by reaching students of all backgrounds where they are — at their skill-level, in their schools, and in ways that inspire them to keep learning.
The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. Check out the tutorials and activities. This grassroots campaign is supported by over 400 partners and 200,000 educators worldwide.
Students can code for just an hour, or complete full courses.
The courses are in 45 different languages.
There are even coding activities that can be down without computers called "unplugged".
A pattern recognition game where players must drag the correct shape into the correct spot to complete the pattern.
Directions for this age old strategy game that gets your students thinking creatively and critically:
With your friend(s) take turns making line segments to connect the dots. When you can complete a square, put your initial inside it. The winner is the person with the most initialed squares.
Locate the continents and oceans on this interactive map.
Drag the proper label to the continent or ocean while the globe spins by.