The Science Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that uses humor and science to get children and adults to learn and play together. All of their activities, which use common household materials, promote curiousity and the excitement of experimentation.
This book by author S. Anderson is for ages 4-8. Welcome to Castle MacPelican where Thomas and Esmerelda have just arrived for a visit. They are going to find the castle a very puzzling place indeed! Their uncle, Hector MacPelican, has prepared a treasure hunt for each of them, but there are many other puzzles for them to solve--they are certain there is a thief in the castle.
This book is a collection of puzzles about paradoxes. The easy answer is often a trap. The puzzles are simple enough for all ages to understand, but they can be tricky to solve and kids may find the answers before their parents. Like the previous book, Aha! Insight, these are puzzles that leave you feeling smarter than before. A fun read that is a delight for all ages.
This book is a collection of puzzles that lead to a sudden rush of insight as you "get it" - the aha! phenomenon of the title. The puzzles are grouped into 6 general categories and illustrated with witty little cartoons that give just the right insight. The puzzles are simple enough for all ages to understand, but they can be tricky to solve and kids may find the answers before their parents. These are puzzles that leave you feeling smarter than before. A fun read that is a delight for all ages.
Puzzles and games that present algebra as a fun and enjoyable experience. It contains reproducible activity pages with a variety of topics.
This book is packed full of truly fun activities for children. It has magic, creative cooking, puzzles, great games, fascinating facts, and non-stop entertainment.
"Math Wizardry for Kid's containing over 200 fun and challenging math puzzles, games, designs, and projects for kids."
How can parents help their children with math at home? With more than 300 pages of lively activities, the classic FAMILY MATH book represents one of the greatest strides taken to involve parents in the mathematics education of their children. Using easy instructions and simple objects such as beans, blocks, pennies, buttons, and string, parents and kids solve problems together.
This book contains puzzles, tips, and information on developing creativity, imagination, new ideas, and problem solving skills.
This book deals with combinatorial games, that is, games not involving chance or hidden information. Their study is at once old and young: though some games, such as chess, have been analyzed for centuries, the first full anlaysis of a nontrivial combinatorial game (Nim) only appeared in 1902. The first part of this book will be accessible to anyone, regardless of background: it contains introductory expositions, reports of unusual contest between an angel and a devil. For those who want to delve more deeply, the book also contains combinatorial studies of chess and Go; reports on computer advances such as the solution of Nine-Men's Morris and Pentominoes; and new theoretical approaches to such problems as games with many players.
Here's a super treasury of 279 exciting math games and activities that help students learn by engaging both their minds and their bodies. Dispensing with tired "rote" learning and memorization, Hands-On Math! uses fun-filled exercises that encourage your students to think and reason mathematically.
What's more fun than a treasure hunt? Few other activities offer such excitement and challenge, or the wonderful sense of accomplishment. Now, imagine a treasure hunt that encourages your kids to start reading. From the author of Games for Reading comes the perfect learning aid for beginning readers and their parents. This book, featuring 50 treasure hunt games, provides weeks of family fun, and enables busy parents to help their kids become better readers. There's a new treasure hunt every day, each consisting of three or four clues. Every perforated page is a written clue that parents tear off, fold, hide, leading to familiar items and places in the home-from the fridge to the bed to the bathtub. As kids sharpen their reading skills, hunts become progressively more difficult. A bonus phonics game on the back of the final clue reinforces what kids learned that day.
Author Bonnie Lou Risby, joined a Family and Marriage Counseling Practice for 12 years nad now works in a family business. The book is a "must" for students who love the thrill of solving logic puzzles - they will enjoy more than 20 puzzles in this book.
With this book from Marilynn Rapp Buxton, students can have fun building their math skills while trying to solve challenging puzzles. Mathematical skills covered include measurement, number operations, geometry, probably, gractions, decimals, percentages and algebra. Also included, is a detailed how-to section for teaching logic puzzles and an in-depth answer key. Grades 5-8.
This book by Kristy Fulton explores the "math logic puzzles" concept in puzzle solving. Students are taught the basic premises behind each challenging puzzle: real-life patterns and puzzles such as Fibonacci's triangle, tangrams, and Sudoku. Resources for teaching math patterns are also included. For grades 2-4.
Kids needn't be math geniuses to enjoy this book, but they might develop into mathematicians simply by solving and playing the 200+ puzzles and games they find here. Illustrations highlight details of different projects. Each project comes complete with a list of materials and specific directions that children can follow on their own. Some history of mathematics is also included, which can be expanded using additional materials. A Glossary and a section for parents and teachers help make this book ideal for use as a classroom math supplement.
This book includes several mathematics puzzles- some are hard to figure out. As I tried this book, I found myself constantly using trial-and-error! If you're bored and like logic and math, then this book might keep you pretty busy!
Logic problems, mathematical puzzles, matrix problems and other puzzles are included in this book by Harold Gale. No special skills are required to tackle these brain-teasers beyond common-sense, logic and a basic numeracy.
A colorful and entertaining collection of 148 puzzles tests fans at every level of expertise, and includes such brain-teasing favorites as coin, card, and matchstick tricks.
This sequel to the original collection of brain twisters and math puzzles challenges young readers with puzzlers that include "How much is PEPPERS + PIG LIPS?" and "If Jenny's shirt has sparkles on it, will Todd have egg in his hair?"
This is a puzzle book with various types of puzzles that take different types of thinking. Hints and answers are in the back.
Do you ever wonder what you can do with your child while you are running errands, waiting in line or have the whole day to spend together? How do you make every moment together fun and interesting? Susan K. Perry has some ideas, and she includes over five hundred of them in this book. Her suggested activities range from brain teasers to outdoor adventures; and are all for children ages 4-14. This book gives parents, educators, mentors or anyone who spends time with a child, ways to turn ordinary daily experiences into engaging and memorable experiences that involve fun and learning.
This book is a collection of 178 classic puzzles compiled by Pentagram. This compilation covers many ability and grade levels, allowing for use over many years. The puzzles are visually stimulating and logically challenging. As the inside cover says: The designer's eye is fascinated by visual wit and conundrum. As in design, intuition as much as intellect solves the problems.
This book introduces you to the magic of the maze, explains some of its mysteries, and recounts some of its history. It also offers you a great many mazes to puzzle your way out of. To increase the fun, especially in some of the simpler mazes, you are sometimes given additional problems to solve or trophies to collect.
This is a collection of stories from Wayside School--where students laugh as much as they learn--with arithmetical twists. There are wacky puzzles and brain teasers interwoven with the stories.
Chess notation is described but not required for learning the moves (drawings are shown instead). The book covers all the basics for each piece, discusses exchanges, special moves, opening moves and tricks, and endgames. There is some chess history as well as simple puzzles. Excellent beginners book on chess fundamentals. Amazon Readers gave it a 5 star rating.
A very good book about chess. All you need is a chess board complete with pieces and a desire to learn. Tests constist of several diagrammed puzzles and concentrate on the monements of a particurlar piece rather than a particular tactic.
Popular science writer Simon Singh's new book offers a compelling insight into cryptography and codes, from ancient texts through computer encryption. Singh's engaging history reveals the role codes have played in warfare, politics, and royal intrigue. This understanding of the history of cryptography is particularly relevant for today's world where corporations use encryption to keep their secrets from their competitors and regulators, and ordinary people need encryption to protect their privacy.
The classic Russian book by Boris A. Kordemsky is marvelously varied with puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Grades 9-12
This is a 50 page magazine that is put out by Highlights for Children. It contains mazes, secret codes, hidden pictures, word searches, dot-to-dots, logic puzzles and "What's Wrong" to name a few.
"A newsletter that features ideas for teaching, learning, and enjoying math, with an onsite collection of elementary and middle school activities, games, and problems. Classroom activities focus on creative problem solving, hands-on thinking, math manipulatives, and cooperative learning, and are tied into the NCTM Standards. Activities: Painted Faces, The Factor Game, and Operation Fill-ins. Also subscription information, an entry blank and information for a "Create a Function Machine" contest, Writer's Guidelines for submitting articles, and Kids' Corner math problems."
A fun and inspiring introduction to the game for beginners,
A motivating and educational experience for the intermediates,
A stimulating and enlightening adventure for the advanced
A set of 3 CD's that include 10 Languages: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese, and Portuguese. Each language is taught by a cartoon friend and his pet who use only the language being taught. Kids learn pronunciation, the alphabet, word recognition, time telling, and much more in the chosen language.
This game has math, problem solving, art, and things that are just fun. The biggest challenge is the "Bowling for Numbers" multiplication.
Seven mythological tricksters are released from Pandora's Box. The player sets out to solve many inventive, visually appealing, and increasingly challenging puzzles to recapture the tricksters. Along the way the player encounters brief descriptions of each trickster's story, visits many cities of the world, and solves inventive, delightful visual puzzles based on artworks/artifacts from culture's based in each city. This game, by the creator of Tetris, is wonderful for visual-spatial puzzle lovers as well as emerging culture vultures.
'The Iron Seed' lets you build the first railroad in the U.S.--the Baltimore and Ohio. 'Excess on the Orient Express' challenges you to negotiate obstacles, both geographic and political, to connect Paris to Istanbul. 'Cape to Cairo' lets you build through the steamy jungles of Africa and attempt what no one has accomplished in 200 years--a trans-African railroad.
Stagecast Creator is an easy-based, simple programming language for kids of all ages. Kids design the game, the characters, the rules, etc. From creating characters and watching them move all the way to making actual games that can take hours of gameplay to complete, kids learn more and more about the software. Originally developed at Apple as a product called Cocoa - spun off to Stagecast about 1999 from Apple.
In Super Solvers Gizmos & Gadgets, Morty Maxwell, better known as the Master of Mischief, has taken over the Shady Glen Technolgy Center. Only you can stop the Master of Mischief. Build 15 different vehicles -five automotive, five aircraft, and fiver alternative energy-and use them to race against Morty. To build a faster vehicle, you'll have to collect the parts you need by mastering physical science puzzles and dodging Morty's sneaky Cyber Chimps.
This CD-ROM is published by MECC/The Learning Company and is for ages 10 to adult. Follow the Yukon trail as you go looking for gold. Players must read responses and make choices about budgets, supplies, routes, timing, and other issues that affect their success. A lot of fun, and very informative.
At Game Builder Creation Camps we combine learning and fun and bring it to a whole new level. At this camp your child will actually design, develop and create "one of a kind" computer games.
Very fun and educational computer simulation game of historical strategy and conquest. Well produced with rich content.
Brain Builders is a website that provides educational games, toys, and puzzles designed to make students think.
This building system takes principles of physics, mechanics, and engineering and packages them in easy-to-use capsules. Each capsule performs a different function - some contain motors, gears, switches, batteries or lights. Special pieces attach to the capsules including chain drives, pulleys, wheels, propellers, or pontoons (to make your creation float).
This building set focuses on a 3-D rolling ball machine. You can purchase the Chaos Tower, and build a 6-ft tall maze for a ball to climb down. Accessory kits offer extra ball traps, joint connectors, trampolines, and loop-de-loops to enhance your maze. Additionally, the building set includes CD-ROM and videos with a 3rd- through 12th-grade physics curriculum.
Dream Green is the maker of a number of original award winning games and puzzles, many of which are educational. There are also quite a few chess games. Two of their games are listed as recommended by the National Association for Gifted Children.
Encore Software, Inc. is a leading publisher of educational and entertainment software, offering a broad range of CD-ROM and video game titles under such well-known brand names as Sesame Street, National Geographic, Kaplan, Golden Books and Advantage.
Offers wide range of games that focus on reasoning skills of logic, mathematics, science and the English language. Some of the titles include Equations, Linguishtik, On-Words, and Propaganda.
This website has programs to download that let you create your own computer games and learn programming languages. It also has neat programs to download like games and puzzles and chemistry, languages, writing, math and physics.
Learning Streams offers a wide variety of educational tools, including toys, textbooks, lab equipment, cd roms, games and more. Searches can be done by topic and/or grade level.
Welcome to the world's largest Lego shop. Shop online for Lego products for all ages or request a catalog. Shopping categories include Baby & Toddler, Preschool, Stories & Themes, Action & Competition, Building Sets, and Exclusives & Accessories.
This collection of board games was selected to sharpen your wits on and a host of word puzzles and conundrums in the accompanying 64-page book, The Mensa Pack guarantees hours of fun for the whole family.
Mike's Lego CAD allows you to make, edit, and save your own computer Lego creations. Print and share the instructions for models you made, and the best part: you can use as many pieces as you want! Create complex lego creations, and make anything you want.
This website is the online version of the Mindware Catalogue. This catalogue contains resources designed to stimulate thinking across the curriculum.
This is a mystery computer game where you have to figure out who is causing the accidents in the mansion. There are a lot of people and a lot of clues but in order to figure out who is behind it, you have to find all of them. The only problem is it can get very scary. One thing you will hear is a painting saying "I see you" and a lot more.
In this program you can play lots of games and write VERY short stories. There are seven activities from storytelling to video clips and sing alongs, games and more.
This website provides thousands of interactive online quizzes, games, and activities in every subject you can imagine. Quia's award-winning technology allows students to evaluate their skills, track their performance, and learn enjoyably at a rapid pace. Engaging learning activities and robust self-assessment tools combine to provide students with a comprehensive framework for computer-based learning.
This building system features interactive, radio control vehicles in an action-filled world. It allows children and adults to build a small construction site and operate machinery within.
This website is home to Runkle Publishing. The Runkle Geography programs use a mapping method that is very structured and uses all four methods of learning. Students will read, speak, listen, and manipulate on a daily basis.
Computer based Scrabble game that allows one to play and learn scrabble strategy. It has all of the advantages of the regular Scrabble game but allows one to play alone.
This website provides an online catalogue of software products. Software-Blowouts is the place to get all your software at Blowout Prices. Choose from education, games, language and much more.
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. is today one of the world's leading publishers of nonfiction titles with over 4,500 books in print. Among its best-selling titles are Biggest Riddle Book in the World, The Illustrated Dream Dictionary, and Windows on the World Complete Wine Course. Subject categories in which the company excels include puzzles and games, crafts, gardening, woodworking, and health. Find books on any topic! Two areas of interest include juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
Steve Spangler is a cross between a scientific gadgeteer, a teacher, and an enthusiastic five year old who has a passion for learning. This is Steve Spangler's online store where you can buy his exciting science kits and supplies to recreate his own unique science activities. It is guaranteed to get ooohs & ahhhs!
The Feelings Company, Inc. is dedicated to providing the largest variety of play therapy products. We carry more than 300 different items and ship all over the world. We have been helping children and families grow for more than a decade. All of our products have been play tested to assure their quality and durability.
Tin Man Press originates and publishes thinking-skills materials for the elementary school grades. Books and card sets are used in gifted programs and conventional classrooms, and also by home schoolers and parents. Tin Man Press offers a variety of fun activities including the "Think About" series, "Brain Stations", and the "Discover Series" of 24 card sets.
The instructional products of WFF 'N PROOF Publishers are wide-ranging instructional games and puzzles designed to provide users an opportunity to (1) engage in complex problem solving and (2) learn to become better at it. The WFF 'N PROOF games focus on the fundamental reasoning skills of logic, mathematics, experimental science, computer programming, and dealing with the logical structure of English text.
This website offers users access to a free demo and paid full-feature program that runs hundreds of games both on and offline. The games tend to be strategy-based with lots of variations on chess and checkers. The demo version allows access to about 50 games and disables online playing.
The game 24 is a mathematical card game for grades 1-9 and consists of a set of several problem-solving math-card games that can be played solo, by two people, or in teams. The object is to combine four numbers given on a card, using mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) to reach the number 24. Each box of cards includes three levels of difficulty.
In 1988, successful inventor Robert Sun embarked on devising a way to show the relationship between numbers through a game. What he created was the 24 game, a unique mathematics teaching tool that has proven to successfully engage students in grades 1 through 9 from all economic and social backgrounds. “I wanted to demonstrate that mathematics can be powerful, engaging and most of all, fun,” says Sun. “Knowing the answer is always 24 alleviates a classic brand of math anxiety—getting the right answer—and instead puts the emphasis on the process and patterns, what I like to call ‘the method behind the math.’ ”
On this website you can explore your favorite fastination - from well-known topics such as geology and astronomy to little-known topics, like herpetology and arachnology. There are quizs, expert "ologist" Q&A's, interactive informational resources and more. There is also a "Hall of Fame" section containing some of the best posts kids have made on the site.
This game is a race to get the most states by answering trivia questions. The question categories include Symbols of Freedom, The Best and The Brightest, Birth of a Nation, America the Beautiful, and States of the Union.
Aquaint a young child with great art from around the world. Images from the National Gallery of Art are offered as a game that teaches while you play. Each of the 45 full-color playing cards is identified by title of work, artist’s name and life span.
This game takes its name from the writings of William Shakespeare. Players take turns moving around a board trying to land on the appropriate letter-spaces to spell a particular Game Word. More than 1,000 cards have questions from 30 different categories and six levels of difficulty. Although the difficult questions are tricky, many will often prove you actually know more about words than you think.
This edition of Bethump'd with Words® is expressly designed for parents and children, teachers and students to play together. It tests strategic skills and knowledge of everyday words, including many from the lingo of today's youth, and will entertain and challenge both participating age groups. It enables teachers to stretch brain muscles while stimulating a fundamental interest in words, language, and, ultimately, reading.
Block by Block helps develop spatial thinking. With a little practice, puzzlers of all ages can learn to mentally move and rotate pieces. Simply combine the seven pieces to match the puzzle shapes shown on 60 puzzle cards. If you need help, flip the card over and one hint will show how to assemble three of the seven pieces and hint two will complete the puzzle.
This website is a free, one-stop center of entertainment for the entire family. We offer Internet content within a protected playground that features hundreds of games, puzzles and other activities. Bonus.com was founded so that kids could find fun, engaging content in one place without searching all over the Web or stumbling into otherwise inappropriate material. Every piece of content in our SuperSite is hand-selected for our audience by the Bonus.com editors.
Brain Binders are puzzles that sound easy - until you try one. This website contains links to puzzles that show a printable puzzle and a finished picture. The goal is to fold the puzzle into a shape with a solid color on each side. Simply print, cut out, and fold to match the finished picture...it sounds easy until you try it! Brain Binders - All you need is a sheet of paper and a brain.
Brain Quest packs can be used competitively, individually or with someone else asking questions. Packs are based on grade levels or specific topics, such as American History. There is also a Brain Quest board game, and some areas have Brain Quest competitions.
BrainBashers is "an exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of brain teasers and puzzles, more than one hundred awards and millions of visitors per year, BrainBashers is the world's most popular puzzle web site and is updated with optical illusions and games regularly and has 5 new puzzles added each week."
This website is an unofficial, fan-created site for the sharing of LEGO® instruction scans with other enthusiasts. This site provides instructions for LEGO® sets that are out of print, as well as scans of all previous catalogs. It also has an extensive library of photos of projects, parts, etc.
This website is different from the normal resource for children seeking to increase their learning skills, particularly in language arts. You'll find good, creative stories and activities along with a number of fun learning games. Children can benefit educationally while they enjoy themselves. Also, Chateau Meddybemps demonstrates how to best use the website in order to help children use language, listen, write, read, develop social skills, think and develop an understanding of math concepts.
This CD teaches you how to play chess through animation, graphics and interesting moves. Best for beginning players.
Embark on a thrilling adventure in Egypt! The ClueFinders, led by an eccentric but lovable professor, are on an archaeological dig in Egypt. There they uncover a wicked archaeologist's evil plot to unleash chaos upon the world. You can help ClueFinders prevent disaster!
Learn Essential Subjects:
Math; Reading; Geography; Vocabulary; Science; Math; Word Problems; Spelling
This board game is designed for teams with questions, puzzles and other problems that require quick creative thinking. It is a combination of Trivia Pursuit, Pictionary, charades, singing, laughing, scrabble, etc.
This website is full of fun and interesting math facts, tricks and trivia.
This website is intended to provide a voice for young people on the Internet. They accomplish this by publishing original creative work by kids in the areas of art, writing, games/puzzles and multimedia by kids ages 7 to 12.
This website offers math puzzles for kids that challenge them to complete the puzzle by finishing the number sequence. The puzzles are updated daily, and students may also browse the archives to find puzzles that ranges from easy to very hard.
This website offers educational games for ages 6-17. The easy-to-use search allows you to search for games for any age, or by subject, title, and keyword. It also features a section for parents and teachers.
This computer program allows users to make exciting computer games without the need to write a single line of code. Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions you can make professional-looking games in little time. Games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects. And once you get more experienced there is a built-in programming language that gives you full flexibility.
This online game catalog offers something for minds of all ages in lasercut acrylic and handcrafted wood. Our game puzzles have all passed the tests of depth, long-term appeal, challenge, versatility, aesthetic form, and durable construction.
Find all sorts of information for planning your future in technology on this lively and fun website. Start off with a "Did you know...", then go to the Test your Tech page and start a quiz. Moving on, check out the long list of science clubs and competions. The What's New page will keep you coming back to this fun resource.
This puzzle game asks players to rearrange the nine tiles to solve the puzzle. Tiles are self contained in a 7 1/2" square box.
This computer game teaches users to read music and learn music theory and solfege as if they were a game. Actually, with Happy Note!, music theory IS a game, or a series of computer games. Designed by licensed music teachers, these games are true computer games with all the bells and whistles (score, lives, Hi-Score, etc.) They both entertain and educate, and make boring music theory lessons a thing of the past.
This website is home to Hot Shot Business -- a fast-paced simulations game for budding entrepreneurs, where kids open their own pet spa, skateboard factor, or comic shop. Young business owners start marketing campaigns; change products, services, and prices; and most importantly, respond quickly to demanding customers and big news events. They've got to think fast and act even faster to take advantage of opportunities and keep their business growing.
The Learning Adventure Series produced this veterinarian CD. It lets you click across the world map, and once you're there, you can wait for sick animals to come out. There are games and the animals send you postcards to say thanks! You have to choose the right treatment for the animal.
The object of this game is to earn spy gear by solving problems and ultimately defeat an army of robots.
This website is devoted to Lego 3D Cad. LDraw.org has links to a variety of programs that allow you to make, edit, and render 3D Lego models. LDraw.org also has links to the latest 3D Lego parts, and a reference section containing many articles on Lego 3D CAD.
This website lets kids discover by doing and create while clicking. MaMaMedia.com's engaging activities help them gain technological fluency and expand their minds through playful learning; they can design and animate characters, make their own digital cards, invent games, and more.
Playful and engaging math material. Makes the old math drill much more interesting for the kids, as they zap the trash and work their way through a cave. This is older software that is readily available and inexpensive.
Play with Numbers and give your brain a workout.
This website provides math puzzles and other animated games to challenge gifted students. From acronyms to chess, this interactive website has over 80 different puzzles for students to choose from.
The CD-ROM is a multimedia guide to chess featuring basic rules, strategies and useful exercises to test one's knowledge. You can also choose to test what you've learned by playing the three-level (easy, medium, difficult) software component… the difficult level appears to be at least master level. What makes this CD different from others is Ashley's trademark enthusiasm and exciting sports analogies which makes learning chess both easy and enjoyable.
This website is the work of Adrian Fisher -- one of the most famous and widely admired maze designers in the world. He has been designing mazes around the globe for over 20 years. The website has links to different types of mazes and offers loads of exploration and inspiration to anyone with an interest in maze or puzzle design.
This book includes 75 word games and puzzles. The puzzles include Scrambles, Make-a-word and others. This book, published by Mensa, is targeted at highly intelligent children.
This website is Mensa's online source for games, puzzles and the like. There is a great amount of variety and challenges.
My Amazing World Explorer takes you on a world tour in pursuit of your best friend Joe who is traveling with his family on vacation. As you are exploring, you will learn about the part of the world you are in, and you can collect snapshots and stickers of what you are seeing for your logbook as you travel. When you eventually catch up to Joe, you will have travelled to seven or eight parts of the world. There are five completely different tours within the program.
This website offers fun mysteries to solve, scary stories, great magic tricks for kids. The magic tricks are simple yet effective and are described in very clear terms.
This website allows users to play games and get virtual pets (Not real animals).
This site has more than 100 academic puzzles collected by computer software engineer Nick Hobson, who received a math degree from a British university and has an interest in mathematics and education. The puzzles cover many disciplines, including: geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, trigonometry and logic.
This website features games and puzzles where you can play with your favorite Noggin characters. At NOGGIN, we believe that media should be more than just safe and amusing. Like preschool itself, media can offer varied, purposeful experiences and can foster the feelings of accomplishment that encourage new learning. By bringing serious preschool subjects and familiar activities into the context of engaging stories and characters, NOGGIN helps young children find learning in everything they do.
The NRICH Project started in 1996* and is based in the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. NRICH is part of the Millennium Mathematics Project, which was set up in 1999 and is based in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University. The NRICH project (the largest of the programmes within the MMP) is led by Jennifer Piggott, a Lecturer within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. The NRICH Project encompasses the main NRICH website (www.nrich.maths.org), publishing free mathematics enrichment resources for pupils of all ages, online resources including discussion forums and mathematics thesaurus, associated face-to-face outreach activity running pupil workshops, extra-curricular masterclasses throughout the UK and primary mathematics lectures at the Royal Institution, London development and provision of Continuing Professional Development courses for teachers a related research programme.
This is an interesting, fun, and educational site for kids. There are several games and fun facts about many different topics. Included in the website is "ZOOM," a section written for kids by kids.
This is an open-ended city-building game that blends Egyptian history, architecture and culture. As you progress, your city will blossom and grow! Early levels will start you with simple mining. As you progress, your games will include pyramid building.
This game requires teams to identify a secret word based upon a drawing. Fast-paced and great for large groups and parties.
A link off of Gamepuzzles.com, this web page is full of geometry puzzles.
This website is about tricky and clever puzzles, Baffling and perplexing illusions, unbelievable and incredible tricks, fascinating and cognitive toys, and other puzzle related things.
Our site has seven main sectors - Gift Shop, PuzzlePLAYGROUND, Puzzle Links, Puzzles in Education, Puzzle Help, PuzzleCLUB and Projects - seven different, and at the same time interweaved directions.
The Quiz Hub is a growing collection of hundreds of fun, high-quality online interactive learning quizzes that help students in grades K-12 and adult learners enhance their core knowledge of English language arts, foreign languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish), math, science, and social studies. A subscription fee is required.
Return of The Incredible Machine allows players to use unique, sometimes humorous mechanical components to construct fantastic machines that accomplish unusual tasks. Each puzzle contains a partially built machine and the extra pieces needed to complete it and accomplish the goal. The player's job is to use the pieces in the correct way to complete the machine. As players become more familiar with the various machine parts and their functions, the puzzles become more sophisticated and challenging. This third installment of the Incredible Machine series from Sierra features improved graphics and new puzzles to challenge virtual engineers of all ages.
This website for Rubik's Online contains free online games and information on the infamous Rubik's Cube. There are more than 50 Rubik's products in addition to the classic puzzle cube, most of which are available online. (Some are available in stores). The Rubik's site contains puzzle-solving information and online play.
This website is home of Scott Kim's twisted mental games. Since 1990 he has been a full-time independent designer of visual puzzles and games for the web, computer games, magazines and toys. His puzzles are in the spirit of Tetris and M.C. Escher — visually stimulating, thought provoking, broadly appealing, and highly original.
This board game is is the original word-game classic that stresses spelling and reading to build a crossword-like structure while accumulating points. The letters that are rarer in speech are worth more points. There are also spaces on the board that double or even triple your word or letter score.
This game publisher produces a number of games that require thought and stimulate the mind. The company offers both SET, a visual pattern identification game, and Quiddler, a letter/word card game that can be played by nearly all ages.
A puzzle/strategy game where you are a sheep herder guiding different types of sheep through different worlds. The object is to get the sheep safely through the last level, Mt. Loom.
This is a game where you use reasoning and logic to build a thriving empire. You deal with conflict between countries, unhappiness, and other things. But get it right and you might have the best empire of all!
Colonization is a computer game that simulates the challenges that the colonists faced in North America. The game begins with the discovery of the New World by the Europeans and continues until the approximate time of the American Revolution. The user can assume the role of one of four European powers (Spanish, English, French or Dutch) that each have unique attributes that give the player specific advantages and disadvantages when playing the game. The object of the game is to create and expand colonies while managing various resources and competing with the other European powers and Native Americans in order to declare independence from the mother country.
This word game gives players two letters, then they have to come up with a five-letter word that begins with the first letter and ends with the second letter. Individuals or teams can play.
This website allows users to construct their own creatures and see how they move under different strengths of gravity and under other varying conditions. It is very easy to jump into and get started with. Instructions are available. It shows the interrelationship of several variables in a system.
This website contains fun and challenging puzzles and games, interesting information on Star Wars characters, and is a good source of information on the upcoming movies and events.
Based on the classic Bingo game, Stargo players compete to fill in star constellations - whoever completes their constellation cards first wins. The game set includes glowing game cards, 48 colored “call” stars, 120 yellow “marker” stars, a storage pouch, compass, instructions and constellation facts.
Computer game with three games from around the world: Nine Men's Morris, Go-moku and Mancala. The games are presented in a very user friendly manner, with videos explaining the rules of each game and with an animated talking game "tutor" or "coach" who can be clicked on for advice at any time. Very great and fun!
This game teaches addition and subtraction skills while players take a journey through the Sum Swamp by adding and subtracting dice numbers. Includes four critter game pieces.
"Visit The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, located in the heart of Druid Hill Park, and begin a journey around the world that will bring you face-to-face with more than 2,000 amazing animals. "
The Ultimate Puzzle Site is a website full of puzzles and riddles.
This website is by fantasy author T.A. Barron and contains information about the author and his books, as well as some games based on his books.
This board game, based on the best-selling books, has a lot of trivia questions that are about dangerous situations. Much reading is required. University Games also publishes a number of variations on this theme.
This website could be described as "Fun and Games for Playful Brains." It offers free games, puzzles, trivia and more. There is even a link for "Family Fun" that helps encourage quality family time.
The University Games offers games that encourage social interaction and imagination through gameplay, with education being the key. The founders grew up thinking that fun and educational games were a part of everyday life. University Games also sponsors an annual National Young Game Inventors contest with the grand prize being a $10,000 savings bond.
Ursuppe is a game that allows kids to learn about evolution through the genetic mutations of amoebas. Through gene cards players are able to change the rules that the amoebas follow for survival. Honing their strategy skills children are engaged in a entertaining educational pursuit.
This mixed-media curriculum uses peridodicals as well as an interactive online community to encourage reading. Weekly Reader is a leader in the educational field and a publisher of materials for elementary and secondary schools. More than 90 percent of the school districts in the United States use their materials. The company publishes other periodicals and instructional materials, including: Teen Newsweek, Read, Current Science, Know Your World Extra, and Current Health, Career World, and its founding publication, Current Events.
This building system is a unique 31-zone system that takes ball-and-stick construction to its highest level. Zome System models spatial structures representing hyperspaces of up to 31 dimensions, geodesic space-frame structures and molecular models, including quasicrystals and Fullerenes.
This website offers a great variety of games that you can play for free. Some of the games that might be of interest to kids are: Lego Stack It, Bejeweled, Word Mojo, What Word, Text Twist, and Mah-Jong Tiles. Of course, there are others to choose from as well!
This educational game takes users to a remarkable new world and treats their brains to an outlandishly fun and challenging adventure. Diabolical Bloats have seized Zoombini Isle, and it will take a clever mind to help the Zoombinis navigate their way to safety. Standing between you and your destination are twelve perilous puzzles, with four levels of difficulty each. But beware, this is no ordinary challenge. Zoombinis’ captivating gameplay features math without numbers. Zoombinis puzzles use the process of mathematical thinking.
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Includes games, flashcards, flashcard creator, homework help, puzzles and worksheets.
This website was developed to help students interactively improve their math skills. Visit the game room and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture...Test your math skills with our Flashcards! Try out the Math Word Find puzzle.
Classics for kids is an online resource that can help kids learn about classical music while having fun. This website offers lesson plans, games, activities, and more.
This site promotes students getting excited about and involved in math through puzzles of logic. Topics covered include: Algebra, Geometry, Probability, Calculus, Social Sciences and more. CTK was one of the winners of the MERLOT Classics 2004 award and a 2003 selection of the Scientific American.
Discover Engineering is a website that seeks to inform about what engineering is and what engineers do. If you surf your way through this site, you'll know way more about engineers and engineering than most adults. You might even decide that you want to become an engineer. A really broad but short definition of engineering is: "Engineering is the application of math and science to create something of value from our natural resources."
This website, by the Discovery Channel folks offers a fun, interactive site for kids. They have links to all of their tv shows with listings included. Within each show topic they have interactive games and show clips from the tv shows. They also have a Discovery Channel store that sells educational games and materials.
Edheads.org helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. They partner with various school systems in the United States, which help them research, design and test their activities every step of the way!
This website is produced by Houghton Mifflin School Division, which publishes a variety of educational materials, including textbooks, resource materials, and technology for K-8 teachers and students. Launched in January 1996, Education Place is the longest running website of any educational publisher. With more than 18,000 pages of engaging content to explore, visitors to award-winning Education Place can delve further into the subjects they most enjoy to find helpful teaching resources, textbook support, educational games, and more.
Energy education website of the California Energy Commission. Uses games, stories and graphics to educate on use, conservation and history of energy and energy sources.
This website was designed for children by Information Please, which has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet. FactMonster has daily features including: analogy of the day; in the news; spelling bee; word quiz and more.
Their main topics include: math; science; people; word wise; U.S.; world & news; sports; quizzes and games; and homework center.
This website provides students, teachers and parents with a number of useful social studies, math, science and language arts activities and resources. Education Place has something for everyone: teachers and parents can access information on state resources, textbook support, and receive newsletters; the kids' section contains many games and fun, educational activities. The site's resources are geared for students in grades K-8 and those who interact with them.
This website, created by a former Associate Professor of Mathematics, offers a variety of games, puzzles, facts, and thoughts relating to mathematics. They also offer math instruction including K-12 math curriculum development. Some fun, interactive activities are also available.
This website allows visitors to play a classic word game every day or visit our archive to play games you missed during the past two months. The Classic Word Games come in four fun formats: Definition Demolition: Use definition clues to unscramble three words before the bomb goes off! Flip Flop: It's as easy as matching the synonyms, antonyms, or slang terms before time runs out. Transform Brainstorm: Presto chango! Transform one word into another one letter at a time by matching the clues. Match Maker: Know your word histories? Or geography? Or history? Prove it with our hot matching challenge.
The web site targets elementary school age children with its primary message being science and technology and learning about space are fun, understandable, and within their grasp. There are hands-on projects, games & puzzles, interactive demonstrations, and many other activities. The site is also very teacher friendly with the "Goodies for Teachers" section with printable pictures and classroom activities. The Space Place was started as an education and public outreach project of NASA's New Millennium Program, which continues to be its primary supporter.
This website offers a variety of links to entertain the science lover in all of us. It has resource links and links to fun games. Everything on this website is related to science.
Kidsweb is a fun, interactive web tool for children who have an interest in plants, nutrients, and the Earth.
This website is devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14. The goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, web resources, and other useful materials.
This website has a variety of resources that will connect you to other fun websites for biology, chemistry, astronomy and more!
The Atoms Family website is a Science Learning Network resource based on The Atoms Family exhibit currently on display at The Miami Museum of Science. This resource contains educational activities relating to different forms of energy, and are being presented by famous gothic horror characters. In order to experience the full capabilities of this site, please make sure that you have javascript turned on in your browser.
This website features information you would find in the book version of the World Almanac for Kids. Website sections include Explore, Fun & Games, and Insider Information.
Boarderline card game is a fun game that offers the opportunity to learn United States geography as well as European and Middle Eastern geography. The strategy of the game is to play any card which boarders the previous card played. Whoever gets rid of their cards first, wins.
This software is a simulation game that involves ecosystem planning and management. It also involves genetic engineering of digital creatures.
A CD Rom that teaches the geography of the United States including the capitals, state flowers, birds, trees, etc.
Typing program that teaches finger placement, home row technique, and editing methods using drills and games. Awards certificates after each skill level has been achieved.
This program uses the Dr. Suess characters to teach kindergarten curriculum. There are several different games that emphasize different areas. There is alphabet recognition, counting, music recognition, letter blends, and rhyming.
A fun way to learn basic algebra, both concepts and applications. In a game-show type setting, the user selects questions, completes math problems, gets points, gets additional "lives", and attempts to avoid "death by algebra".
This CD-Rom is great for young children just starting to learn Spanish. It teaches colors, numbers, body parts, and simple nouns in a fun and exciting format.
Use the memory tools on this web site to increase the brain's capacity to retain information. By slowly increasing the level of difficulty, both adults and children will find their ability to recall and locate objects increase in the Memory Match game.
Scholastic's cartographer, Jim McMahon, has written four questions for you which will score instantly after you answer each one. Don't worry. If you don't know the answer, Mapman has a tip to help you figure it out. Click on Tips and Hints for the information. You will need the Flash plugin to play Mapman.
Students (mathletes) can play on their own or with up to 3 players. Mathletes can either compete or train using excercises that involve numbers, money, operations, visual skills and geometry.
This online resource provides homework help, practice problems, a tutoring guide, information on calculators, and fun mathematical games and puzzles for students. Levels range from basic math principles and pre-algebra to calculus and advanced topics.
This website, a component of American Mensa, provides students both educational resources and fun games and activities.
Music Ace is a fun music education software program for Mac and IBM that provides an introduction to music fundamentals for beginning music students. Following the friendly direction of Maestro Max and his choir of singing notes, kids participate in a series of 24 comprehensive lessons, play a variety of challenging games, with 24 self-paced lessons that develop and reinforce fundamental music skills and an understanding of music theory. Colorful animated graphics, digitized sound effects, bonus points and high scores provide fun, arcade-like entertainment.
My Amazing Human Body provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the human body, enabling children to explore the body from the inside out through a variety of compelling games and activities.
Students, parents and excecutives can all benefit from this website filled with online puzzles and brain teasers.
This mixed media package features a foam rubber puzzle map of the 48 lower United States, one piece per state, which measures '7 x 4' when assembled. With this large floor puzzle children will become physically involved with learning.