Online Games

Educational online games that can be used in a classroom, in groups or as individual students. These games can be integrated right into a teachers lesson plans and can enhance and improve student learning and engagement. Games also help motivate students and build a desire to learn, here are some games that can help out in your classrooms and imporve your lesson plans:

on softschools.com there are many educational games that are preset up and ready to engage students. this link specifically goes to a division game that helps students with their division. I would use games like this one and many other games on this site as an individual activity after a student has finished with the classwork for the hour. The gaming would be an incentive for finishing ones work and for doing well.

jeopardy  is another online game that can be downloaded as a template into a power point system and used for any content area in the classroom. I would use this kind of game for a review session in class with the entire class set up in teams and using competition as a motivator.

Quizlet is another website that uses games to help improve the recall of content from the classroom. This site, in particular, uses games to improve vocabulary. I would use this website as homework with my students because it will help them learn the vocabulary words that are for our English and literature classes.

phonics is a topic in schools that there are many games for, soft schools website also has many games for phonics. Here is a game that is used for short vowel sounds and helps students to recognize the sounds of vowels. I would also use this game as a game after students are done with there individual work and they need something to keep them learning without distracting other students. Games like these also keep score so they allow self competition, to allow students to see there improvement and be self motivated.

the plural girls this is another game, like the phonics games, that is used for grammar in younger classrooms. this game helps students to learn the plurals of different words in our English Language. I would use this in my class in similar ways as the math games as either a transition into Lit or Grammar or for students who have finished early.