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Archimedes' Laboratory...A high-content, award-winning puzzle site that is divided into six main categories: puzzles & tests, optical illusions, custom puzzles, teachers' resource, curiosities, art & language.

The Art of Crime Detection is an interactive Web activity consisting of an introductory animation, two crime-solving scenarios, and an open-ended drawing tool... provides the student with an understanding of the differences between right brain and left brain processes, an understanding of visual images and vocabulary and their impact in providing descriptions,...

Bow Street Runner | Channel 4...A web-based game simulating London’s Convent Garden in the 1750s

BrainBashers a a variety of puzzles and brain challenges including Brain bats ...

Build Your Own Jeopardy...helps you make custom game boards that you can use in the classroom

NEW CashCab: The Discovery Channel website lets you test your trivia knowledge while playing the same quizzes the contestants on Cash Cab play. Play the Cash Cab quiz game and earn fictitious money for every question you answer correctly. Answer three questions incorrectly and the game is over.

Discovery's Cash Cab game show from The Discovery Channel website lets you test your trivia knowledge while playing the same quizzes the contestants on Cash Cab play. Play the Cash Cab quiz game and earn fictitious money for every question you answer correctly. Answer three questions incorrectly and the game is over.

Dositey - For all ages: Fun games...exciting excercises...involving interactive lessons to boost a child’s success in school.
Education World Word Games Online - Over a 100 links to sites with word games from crossword puzzles to anagrams, etc.

Educational Games...You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!

NEW Eyeballing Game is an interactive visual estimation game. In the Eyeballing Game players are presented with a drawing or a line segment, angle, or shape. Players are then given a task like "find the spot equidistant to all sides" or "bisect the angle."

NEW Find Geography is a simple map game that you could have a classroom full of students playing after just a minute of instruction. Find Geography asks students "Where is country _______?" Students simply click on the map where they think that country is located. If students give a wrong answer, Find Geography shows them the correct answer.

Forensics: The True Witness - You are KC Rodgers, ace detective. At least you are when you’re not at your day job at the local salami factory. Can you help locate the missing girl Susie van Konkel? And who was the unusual man seen lurking outside the house, and what was he doing?

Free Rice ...For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to help end hunger...

Games For The Brain is : “A cool little website chock full of neat games that make your head hurt. (…) The best part is, after you waste a good part of an hour playing them you can reassure yourself that it was time well spent and that you’re that much smarter for the playing.”
GeoGame - Welcome to our new and revised GeoGame... and don’t miss the new Instant GeoGames.

Geography Challenge from a magazine called Mental Floss...has a series of good map games
Geosense - an online, one-two player geography based game. You compete alone or against an online opponent to place a city on a world/continent map as quickly and accurately as you can.
Grammar Blast - Have a blast with Grammar Blast! Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points
Grammar Gorillas - the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.

Herd a Word, an online word-finding game. It’s pretty simple - piece together words from the alphabetic jumble in front of you.

iCUE...free, collaborative learning community for students ages 13 and up that incorporates gaming, discussion, and video resources in a safe, online environment created by NBC Learn

Immune Attack..."The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) presents Immune Attack™, an educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. Designed as a supplemental learning tool, Immune Attack aims to excite students about the subject, while also illuminating general principles and detailed concepts of immunology."
Interactive Mathematic Miscellany and Puzzles - More than 110 games or puzzles having to do with arithmetic or algebra, with extensive discussions and solutions
INTERACTIVE WORD GAMES - Play against the clock to test your word knowledge.

Invention at Play ...The premise here is that childhood play and toys and games helped inventors invent. Made up of three main parts, students are able to go into the invention playhouse and do interactive puzzles dealing with problem solving, exploration and other skills needed by inventors.

JEOPARDY!...Get ready to test your knowledge in the single-player online version of America's Favorite Quiz Show®. Just like the television show, select a category and a money value to reveal the hidden answer. Come up with the correct question and you win the money; otherwise, your bank will take a hit.

KidsHub.org - free online interactive learning games, puzzles, and quizzes Best Regards, Dyann K. Schmidel dyann@schmidel.com
Kinetic City - Mission to Vearth, the after-school standards-based science program in which kids complete activities in conjunction with a dynamic website.
Language Arts Go Grammar - Noun Dunk, Grammar Blast, Verbs Grammar Blast, Adjectives & Adverbs, Prepositional Phrases, The Sentence, & Nouns Grammar Game Collection, Stufun Grammar Games, Intermediate Grammar Practice, High School Grammar Rules

Launchball...from the British Science Musuem.  Students can create a sort of video game (and learn scientific concepts in the process), title it, and post the url.

Line Rider 2.  is the sequel to the popular Line Rider game. ... can be used very effectively to teach physics and other topics.  Students can also have a lot of fun creating and saving their creations.

Monetary Mania is a game in which students can test their knowledge of economic theories. Beyond the games, teachers will find complete sets of lesson plans for teaching lesson economics to middle school and high school students. If you're in need of a good visual representation of the World's economic outlook, check out the IMF's Data Mapper. The IMF Data Mapper allows you to see the current, past, and predicted distribution of wealth around the world. Use the slider tabs on the IMF Data Mapper to change the map's display.

Playing Games With Memory...Memory Solitaire, Tell yourself a Story, Memory Party Game, etc.

Playing History is a collection of more than 100 games related to topics in US and World History as well as civics and geography. The games come from a variety of sources across the web. Feedback on every game and suggestions for future additions are welcomed by the hosts of the site. Visitors to Playing History can search for games by using the tag cloud, by using the search box, or just browse through the entire list.

The Problem Site...play educational games and daily puzzles, find interesting reference pages, and engage in fun problem solving activities. There are word games, math games, math problems, mystery quests, and many other free educational resources.
Puzzle Choice - A great choice of puzzles and games for all ages. Crosswords wordsearches, quizzes, wordplay, brainteasers, anagrams, mazes, cryptograms, number puzzles, online games and teacher resources. Fun and educational.
puzzles.com - This site is about Puzzles, Illusions, Tricks, Toys, and everything around all these Great, Funny, Entertaining, Intellectual, and Educational Things

The Reconstructors...an interactive online game (Shockwave required) that has students work as scientists, historians, geographers, and detectives to solve the medicinal mysteries of drugs that have both helpful and harmful effects.

Reconstructors Solve Medical Mysteries...an interactive online game. Students solve mysteries and in doing so learn how infectious diseases are spread. The Missions teach the fundamentals of microbiology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology including virtual labs and are aligned with National Science Education Content Standards. Teacher Pages contain lots of downloadable resources.

Scavenger Hunt Through History is a game designed to be played by students in junction with Freedom: A History of US

Science Museum - Launchpad Online - Launchball...Physics and control through a fun game

Scratch is an application developed by MIT to allow children (of all ages) to create their own interactive games, stories, and other media with the ease of putting blocks together...designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.

NEW Sharendipity makes it possible for students and teachers to quickly create and share simple video games. Sharendipity's drag and drop creation tools can be used to create a game in as few as four steps. For new Sharendipity users the tutorials provide clear directions and helpful game ideas. Games created on Sharendipity can be embedded in your blog or website.

Sharendipity offers galleries of games created by users. The galleries include strategy games, matching games, and education games. The education gallery currently has 18 publicly shared games.

Sharkrunners is a game of oceanic exploration and high stakes shark research. Players take on the role of sharkrunners: daring and adventurous marine biologists who seek to learn as much as possible about sharks through advanced observation techniques. Real-world telemetry data provides the position and movement of actual great white sharks in Sharkrunners, every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark out in the actual ocean.

Tales of the Encrypted - Cryptography has entered the world of technology at a political cross-road. The rise of cryptography brought with it the ability for individuals to isolate themselves from prying eyes and defend their intellectual property. Tales of the Encrypted is inten
The Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation - a unique Web site, using humor, storytelling, and oddball characters to help kids ages 8-13 learn about places and cultures around the world. The site was created for the Bureau by WGBH Interactive, whose team is responsible for the innovative and award-w
The Maths File Game Show - makes mathematics fun and accessible
The Stock Market Game - An online educational program that stimulates learning about economics, finance, and the American economic system.

Trebuchet Challenge, an online game that lets you harness your knowledge of physical laws to fling boulders great distances using a .medieval siege engine used to smash castle walls. And now you can let your students play with one in the comforts of your own classroom.

Time Lord is an interactive game that tests your knowledge of many areas of history. Through video and audio clips and questions, you can make your way across the virtual board to win. The questions cover the following areas: Exploration, Military and War, Mysteries of History, Political and Historical Figures, Science and Technology, Society and Culture, U.S. History, and World History.

TypeRacer pits you against other players for the chance to win money, fame, women, and a slot on TypeRacer's leaderboard!

What2Learn system contains over 2,000 interactive learning games to help you succeed in school. Sign up for FREE access to all of these games.

WORLD WITHOUT OIL is a serious game for the public good. WWO invited people from all walks of life to contribute “collective imagination” to confront a real-world issue: the risk our unbridled thirst for oil poses to our economy, climate and quality of life. It’s a milestone in the quest to use games as democratic, collaborative platforms for exploring possible futures and sparking future-changing action. WWO set the model for using a hot net-native storytelling method (‘alternate reality’) to meet civic and educational goals. Best of all, it was compellingly fun.