Lisa Johnson
A fellow colleague in NEISD has inspired this list of amazing consumptive and productive resources to engage exceptional students during the school year. I felt these resources could be used with all children all year long. Please continue to add additional tools to energize children and students. (For further resources: check out the Engage Their Minds site: http://engagetheirminds.com/)
Free kids educational computer games and activities
Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.
Play award winning free educational online games on science, math, social studies health and watch BrainPOP animated movies.
MakeBeliefsComix.com is an educational comic strip creator from author Bill Zimmerman. Create, print, email and post to Facebook your original comic strips through this site!
At Switcheroo Zoo you can make new animals, play games, solve jigsaw puzzles, learn about animals, join a zoo quest, watch movies, and more!
Create your own drawings, cards, pictures, stories, and movies.
Use maps to find places and solve clues like an explorer in this interactive game.
Free online games that exercise your brain
Have older student graph characters of using their summer reading books as inspiration.
Wondermind is about a few things. It’s about the brilliant, amazing and truly mind-boggling stuff that’s going on inside your brain as you grow. It’s about the art of Alice in Wonderland, the exhibition at Tate Liverpool. And it’s about putting together both of those things: mixing art with science. Being good at one doesn’t mean you can’t be good at the other (in fact, it’s often the opposite).
Build and draw with dominos. Then watch them all fall over.
KBears' World Geography, Great interactive maps, World pictures and sounds, national anthems, Great for homework, Visit all the countries of the World, Pictures and information for every country in the world, Easy to navigate Interactive maps of World Geography
A free resource that uses interactive video and games-based learning to teach students vocabulary. Educators can set school tournaments, and students can play fun learning games challenging classmates and other schools.
Scratch: a programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online.
Students learn about the President's roles by traveling through time and meeting Washington, Lincoln, Obama and other presidents. This interactive game teaches kids about the many jobs of the President.
Use triangles to build a bridge for the motorcycle.
Welcome to Piece of Mind - your online scientific brain training game center! Improve your memory and train your brain with a variety of challenging, interactive and fun mind exercises suitable for both kids and adults!
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Our high quality math games help students to build math skills including algebra, numbers, and shapes.
Play in the Invention Playhouse at the Lemelson Centers Invention at Play exhibit
Students in grades 4 - 6 become math apprentices to learn how mathematics is used in every day careers. This rich multimedia site contains interactive simulations that einvite students to play the role of scientists, bicycle designers, computer game programmers, artists, engineers, and more.
Full Review: http://engagetheirminds.com/2011/10/03/isle-of-tune/
Draw a stickman and watch him come to life in this new stickman adventure!
Learn to master the words with the Word Tamer
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