The Synergy Challenge provides a new task every season where gifted students will design, create, build, and perform something from their imagination. They will post projects on Synergy's Facebook page to be judged for a prize. Synergy's goal is to keep the gifted mind stimulated, where students can work on an independent project that motivates and excites them.
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 present algebra as a fun and enjoyable experience. This book contains reproducible activity pages on 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.
A clever book about a museum whose displays have been replaced with forgeries. Readers will enjoy learning about some of the world's greatest artists and their works while solving this mystery story and figuring out the spot the difference puzzles.
"Math Wizardry for Kid's containing over 200 fun and challenging math puzzles, games, designs, and projects for kids."
Would you like to learn how to perform amazing feats of mind? Dr. Arthur Benjamin, the Mathemagician, will show you how in his latest book, Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks.
These carefully researched books have wonderfully detailed drawings of figures in historical costumes, authentic reproductions of actual period art, or carefully rendered images of plants and animals. Most include notes or stories intertwined with the pictures, and the written information is a nice complement to the drawings. Some of the titles available include: Geometric Designs
and Illusions; Butterflies, Insects, More; American History; World History; and, many more.
How can parents help their children with math at home? With more than 300 pages of lively activities, this 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.
The properties of three-dimensional figures spring to life as students build straw models, investigate polyhedra, create tetrahedral kites, and find the volume of prisms and pyramids. Students are encouraged to problem solve, find patterns, and talk about their discoveries throughout. This book also includes teacher notes, blackline masters and patterns.
This book deals with combinatorial games, games not involving chance or hidden information. The first part of this book is accessible to anyone, regardless of background. For those who want to delve more deeply, the book also contains combinatorial studies of chess and Go; reports of 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.
Real-life topics from architecture to sewing assure these 21 "discovery activities" make sense. Students use Pattern Blocks, tessellation patterns, geoboards, and dice to explore area and perimeter and make connections to multiplication, fractions, and decimals.
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.
Imagine a treasure hunt that encourages your kids to start reading. From the author of Games for Reading, this book is a learning aid for beginning readers and their parents. Featuring 50 treasure hunt games, this book provides weeks of family fun, and enables busy parents to help their kids become better readers. As kids sharpen their reading skills, the treasure hunts become progressively more difficult.
Author Bonnie Lou Risby, joined a Family and Marriage Counseling Practice for 12 years and 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.
This book is a step by step guide to making clay figures from polymer clay, from simple creatures like a frog to more complicated creatures like a wolf. The animals are caricatures, with expressive characteristics and clothing. This book also introduces how to use other mediums with the polymer clay.
Math Games takes children beyond addition and subtraction, and challenges them with an entertaining collection of logic problems, numbers riddles, and shape puzzles that expand their understanding of math.
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 through its more than 200 puzzles and games. 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 150 mathematical puzzles, including coin and change problems, relative ages, time and distance, and 40 alphametics—innovative letter substitutions.
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?"
For ages 12 and older, this is a mystery-adventure story, interwoven with puzzles to solve that require 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, covering many ability and grade levels, allowing for use over years. The puzzles are visually stimulating and logically challenging. The designer's eye is fascinated by visual wit and conundrum. As in design, intuition as much as intellect solves the problems.
For ages 9-12, this book will make you feel like you've stepped into the mind of someone famous (and have fun) while using deductive reasoning to solve unique and challenging puzzles. Fifty Quizzlers pit right brain against left brain in a struggle to decipher famous (and not so famous) quotations. In addition to the 50 Quizzlers, this book contains biographies of all the figures quoted. Explore the motivating thoughts of some of the world’s most inspired minds.
This book introduces you to the magic of the maze, explains some of its mysteries, and recounts its history. It also offers many mazes to puzzle your way through. To increase the fun, especially in some of the simpler mazes, you are sometimes given additional problems to solve or trophies to collect.
By Louis Sachar, this book is a collection of 50 hilarious stories, each filled with brainteasers, designed to painlessly teach math skills. The stories are from the Wayside School, where students laugh as much as they learn.
For ages 9-12, this book is an information sandwich with everything on it with tons of fun facts about your favorite movies, music, books, and sports and games, along with kid survival tips and techniques. Find out how to defend yourself against vampires, what to do if you're afraid of the dark, and how to look great in your school picture. You'll also find hundreds of addresses for kid-friendly Web sites (as well as information on how to visit them safely).
The classic Russian book by Boris A. Kordemsky is marvelously varied with puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Grades 9-12
The World of Origami is a comprehensive origami book containing patterns for simple origami such as the cup to more complex patterns such as the mother crane attached to several smaller cranes. It contains classic origami shapes such as animal creatures as well as traditional Japanese shapes such as kimonos. The instructions are easy to understand and follow.
Hours of fascinating fun await the origami devotee who follows the author along the path to creating original multidimensional forms that are practically architectural in nature. Ranging from technically simple folds to more demanding ones, the many delightful and varied works in this book are highly stimulating and make wonderful presents for family and friends.
This magazine, put out by Highlights for Children, 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.
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.
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.
Apples to Apples is an award-winning party game that will have everyone laughing. Apples to Apples has won numerous awards including "Party Game of the Year" by Games magazine and "Mensa Select" by Mensa International. And for good reason: it involves quick thinking, humor, and strategy. The name of the game is a play on the phrase "apples to oranges," and the game is about making comparisons between different things.
Brain Builders is a website that provides educational games, toys, and puzzles designed to make students think.
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 a 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.
Gifts for Learning is a place where anyone who has, or suspects they have, a gifted child can find books and toys that gifted children are sure to love. Visitors can also find information about gifted kids and some tips for making the most of toys and books.
This site has downloadable programs that let you create computer games and learn programming languages. It also has programs with games, puzzles, 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 that 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 you can use as many pieces as you want to create complex lego creations.
This website is the online version of the Mindware Catalogue. This catalogue contains resources designed to stimulate thinking across the curriculum.
This website offers video games based on the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery series. Follow the clues to solve the mystery!
Michael LaFosse has been creating origami fine art from his handmade papers since 1974. With Richard Alexander, he founded the Origamido Studio, located for 12 years in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Both biologists, they specialize in natural history art and have collaborated with other origami designers and fine artists to produce or contribute to major exhibits of origami fine art around the world.
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 site provides thousands of interactive online quizzes, games, and activities in numerous subjects. Its technology allows students to evaluate their skills, track their performance and learn 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 that allows people to build a small construction site and operate machinery.
This site is home to Runkle Publishing, whose 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.
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.
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.
This is a mathematical card game for grades 1-9 and consists problem-solving math-card games that can be played solo, by two people, or in teams. Each box of cards includes three levels of difficulty.
Age of Empires is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10,000 years, in which players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations.
Age of Mythology is a video game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men.
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. 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 some of the world's great art. 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.
Bethump'd with Words® tests strategic skills and knowledge of everyday words, including many from the lingo of today's youth.
Block by Block helps develop spatial thinking. With 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.
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 is the fast-paced, curriculum-based educational game that challenges kids on what they need to know and when they need to know it.
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 is an unofficial, fan-created site for sharing LEGO® instruction scans with other enthusiasts. It provides instructions for out of print LEGO® sets and scans of all previous catalogs. It also has an extensive library of photos of projects, parts, etc.
CBT Planet, a computer, IT, and business soft skills training provider, addresses issues within the talent management cycle through a blended learning approach. CBT Planet is a website with resources that will bring your family a collection of kid-friendly computer games that you can play online.
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 site is the kids' places to go for information and games related to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It includes history and book lists, as well as sections for exploration such as CIA Canine Corps and Aerial Photography Pigeons.
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.
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 site provides a voice for young people on the Internet. They publish original creative work by kids ages 7 - 12 in art, writing, games/puzzles and multimedia.
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.
In the Drawn to Life video game the player creates a hero character that works to free a cursed village. It features various levels, as well as vehicles, weapons and platforms - all drawn or colored by the player using the stylus.
This site offers educational games for ages 6-17. The easy-to-use search allows you to search for games by age, 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.
The classic game of global domination. A favorite for over 40 years!
This online game catalog offers something for minds of all ages. Puzzles have passed the tests of depth, long-term appeal, challenge, versatility, aesthetic form, and durable construction.
This puzzle game has players to rearrange the nine tiles to solve the puzzle.
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 is a resource center for profoundly gifted kids, with links to sites on topics from genetics to space, from Shakespeare to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and lots more. Also included are a list of movies that feature gifted children in a positive light, and software that has a shelf-life for gifted children of longer than a few days.
This site is home to Hot Shot Business , a fast-paced simulation game for budding entrepreneurs, where kids open their own business. 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 and act fast 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, wait for sick animals to come out. You have to choose the right treatment for the animal.
InterroBang is a game where you get to have fun with problems. Students complete real-world missions with deeds that can win prizes, improve problem solving skills, and connect them with others to do things that just might change the world.
The object of this game is to earn spy gear by solving problems and ultimately defeat an army of robots.
This site is devoted to Lego 3D Cad and has links to 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 site lets kids discover by doing and create while clicking. Engaging activities help them gain technological fluency and expand their minds through playful learning: design and animate characters, make digital cards, invent games and more.
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.
This site is the work of one of the world's most famous and widely admired maze designers. It has links to different types of mazes and offers exploration and inspiration to anyone with an interest in maze or puzzle design.
This book includes 75 word games and puzzles and 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.
Bring home the excitement of a Dino Dig.
Use a hammer, chisel, pick, brush and sponge to carefully chip away and remove excess plaster “earth,” gradually revealing a mini dinosaur skeleton model. Museum-quality kit provides an experience similar to that of real paleontologists searching for fossils on an excavation site!
My First Amazing World Explorer is a fascinating introduction to maps, atlases, and our world. All the traditional features of a children's atlas are brought to life, while the magic of multimedia adds interactive adventures and learning activities.
This site offers fun mysteries to solve, scary stories and great magic tricks for kids. The magic tricks are simple yet effective and are described in very clear terms.
This site allows users to play games with virtual pets.
NewzBrain Weekly is an interactive game board classroom enrichment assessment of current events, world, national and cultural. A new game board with all new questions and answers is provided every Monday morning.
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.
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 site is dedicated to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Features games, videos, book reviews and message boards. Discussion guides are available for parents and teachers.
Provides step by step instruction on how to create frogs, cicadas, cranes, swans, Samurai helmets, soldiers hats, etc.
This is an interesting, fun and educational site for kids. It has games and fun facts about different topics and includes "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.
'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.
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 Cube 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. The Rubik's site contains puzzle-solving information and online play.
This site features visual puzzles, online and computer games, magazines and toys. The puzzles are 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.
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 site allows users to construct creatures and see how they move under different strengths of gravity and other conditions. It shows the interrelationship of several variables in a system.
With this video game, the player creates and guides a creature through five stages of evolution - the cell phase, creature phase, tribal phase, civilization phase and space phase.
This site contains fun and challenging puzzles and games and interesting information on Star Wars characters.
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.
This game teaches addition and subtraction skills while players take a journey through the Sum Swamp by adding and subtracting dice numbers.
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 about dangerous situations that require advanced reading.
This site could be described as "Fun and Games for Playful Brains." It offers free games, puzzles, trivia and more. There is a link for "Family Fun" that helps encourage quality family time.
This page of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is designed for kids. It contains games, puzzles, information on contests, and links to other websites kids may find interesting. It also answers common questions about patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
The University Games offers games that encourage social interaction and imagination through gameplay, with education being the key. University Games also sponsors an annual National Young Game Inventors contest with a $10,000 savings bond grand prize.
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 curriculum uses peridodicals and 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.
World Chess Live provides an online chess community for novice, intermediate, and recreational chess players. A subscription to World Chess Live gets you access to tools, video content, and training materials. Have fun playing against other online players and learning about the game of chess.
This site is Yahoo's web guide for kids. Offers games, a search feature, movies, music and jokes.
Zome is a unique 31-zone system that takes ball-and-stick construction to its highest level. It models spatial structures representing hyperspaces of up to 31 dimensions, geodesic space-frame structures and molecular models, including quasicrystals and Fullerenes.
This site offers a great variety of free games.
Zoo Tycoon 2, the sequel to the popular, award-winning Zoo Tycoon, delivers a fantastic zookeeper experience! Immerse yourself in 3-D as you build exciting zoos and adopt amazing animals. Stroll through your zoo in first-person, just like a guest, or get your hands dirty caring for your animals in Zookeeper mode.
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.
For centuries, nations around the world have operated Black Chambers, secret rooms where they attempted to decode the messages being sent by their rivals. This is Simon Singh's virtual Black Chamber, where you can learn about codes and codebreaking, encrypt your own messages, crack those of your enemies, and play with interactive enciphering programmes.
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 a fun, interactive site for kids by the Discovery Channel. It has links to their tv shows and interactive games and show clips from the tv shows. It also has 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.
FactMonster has daily features for children including analogy of the day, in the news, spelling bee, word quiz and more. Its main topics include: math, science, people, word wise, U.S., world & news, sports, quizzes and games, and homework center.
This site offers information for anyone interested in game theory, specifically the application of game theory to a range of disciplines, including economics, business, political science, computer science, etc. Several things are provided specifically for educators, a list of relevant textbooks, lecture notes used by other educators and links to forms of entertainment with game theoretic themes.
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 site offers a variety of games, puzzles, facts, and thoughts regarding math. It also offers math instruction including K-12 math curriculum development.
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.
This site targets elementary school students with information about science, technology and learning about space. There are hands-on projects, games & puzzles, interactive demonstrations, and many other activities; it is also for teachers with a "Goodies for Teachers" section with printable pictures and classroom activities.
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.
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!
This website has everything Shakespeare for kids, including: Shakespeare challenges, scripts for kids, word games, fun facts, coloring and puzzles, information about Queen Elizabeth, and exhibits at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
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.
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.
Boomwhackers are brightly colored musical tubes that have won many awards including Best 25 of 25 Years from Parents' Choice. They are a favorite of music educators around the world and are also used by professional musicians, in teambuilding, in music therapy and more!
Borderline is a fun game that teaches about U.S., European and Middle Eastern geography. The strategy of the game is to play any card which boarders the previous card played.
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, including 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 website offers numerous books, games and programs, all designed to help children and adults improve their mathematical abilities.
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.
With the KAPLA planks kids as well as adults can build and create all kinds of different architectural constructions, animals, extraordinary creations. The inventor of KAPLA created the planks based on the progressions of the uneven numbers 1:3:5. 3 thickness for one width and five widths for one length, opening the door to creative building. With these identically cut planks the builder can construct with the precision and stability.
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.
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 characters who use only the language being taught.
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 compete or train using excercises involving numbers, money, operations, visual skills and geometry.
Master the basics with Math Blaster math worksheets, puzzles, games and children's educational software.
This game has math, problem solving, art, and things that are just fun.
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.
Designed by music-education professionals, Music Ace Deluxe is a comprehensive series of music lessons and games that teach beginning music students of all ages the basics of music theory, rhythm, pitch, note reading, listening, and the keyboard. No previous musical experience or instrument is required.
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.
The first in the Reading Blaster series, Reading Blaster Ages 4-6, helps students master essential prereading skills through alphabet, phonics, and word-knowledge activities. Problem-solving challenges develop basic literacy skills and prepare students with the thinking skills needed for comprehension.
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. Allows children to become physically involved with learning.