First, my favorite because I hate "running" into the "convenience" store only to have a clerk that can't count.
Software Title: Cash Out
Grade/Age level: k-12 depending on settings
Subject Area: Math
Platform: both
Purpose: This game is a cash register where the player is the clerk and has to make change. The easiest level has a penguin buying something for 82 cents and telling you that they get 18 cents change. But, it can be made very difficult. I set it on hard with no hints and no help from the customers and was presented with a purchase of $12,326.32 that I had to make change for from $15,000.00. My husband and son both played this game and liked it. My husband and I had a bet on how well our seventeen year old would do and he surprised us both. This game is addictive with fun animal characters as customers. Even the adults that have played it enjoyed it.
Grade/Age level: k-12 depending on settings
Subject Area: Math
Platform: both
Purpose: This game is a cash register where the player is the clerk and has to make change. The easiest level has a penguin buying something for 82 cents and telling you that they get 18 cents change. But, it can be made very difficult. I set it on hard with no hints and no help from the customers and was presented with a purchase of $12,326.32 that I had to make change for from $15,000.00. My husband and son both played this game and liked it. My husband and I had a bet on how well our seventeen year old would do and he surprised us both. This game is addictive with fun animal characters as customers. Even the adults that have played it enjoyed it.
Software Title: sharknumbers
Grade/Age Level: k-3
Subject Area: math/place value
Platform: both
Subject: This game is on a surfboard with numbers appearing in water bubbles beside it. An amount of cubes appears on the surf board and you click on the bubble with the number that you think coincides with the blocks on the surfboard and hit enter. If you are right, you get to go again. If you are wrong....CRUNCH! Off comes a huge bite from the front of your surf board! Ouch. You get to get bitten several times before you are thrown out of the game. This would be especially good for boys since they love sharks. There are only bite marks so it isn't as if it is Jaws for math. It is especially good because the blocks look just like the blocks that we use in the classroom.
Grade/Age Level: k-3
Subject Area: math/place value
Platform: both
Subject: This game is on a surfboard with numbers appearing in water bubbles beside it. An amount of cubes appears on the surf board and you click on the bubble with the number that you think coincides with the blocks on the surfboard and hit enter. If you are right, you get to go again. If you are wrong....CRUNCH! Off comes a huge bite from the front of your surf board! Ouch. You get to get bitten several times before you are thrown out of the game. This would be especially good for boys since they love sharks. There are only bite marks so it isn't as if it is Jaws for math. It is especially good because the blocks look just like the blocks that we use in the classroom.
Software Title: Room 108
Grade/Age level: k-8
Subject Areas: all major, science, math, reading, geography, etc...
Platform: both
Subject: This site has lots of games and stuff for teachers in every subject. There are tons of ideas for teachers (including how to integrate the stuff on the site to the classroom) on top of the games for the students. I enjoyed the Skeleton Game very much under science. You click and drag the different bones to where they belong and when you are done the skeleton dances a little jig. The games for state capitals are fun too. The whole site is a treasure trove of cute and informative games and worksheets, etc. There is even a section of ideas for science fair projects.
Grade/Age level: k-8
Subject Areas: all major, science, math, reading, geography, etc...
Platform: both
Subject: This site has lots of games and stuff for teachers in every subject. There are tons of ideas for teachers (including how to integrate the stuff on the site to the classroom) on top of the games for the students. I enjoyed the Skeleton Game very much under science. You click and drag the different bones to where they belong and when you are done the skeleton dances a little jig. The games for state capitals are fun too. The whole site is a treasure trove of cute and informative games and worksheets, etc. There is even a section of ideas for science fair projects.
On a side note, I wanted to let you all know about the brief and informative clips that I found on itunes. By going to itunes and entering in the search field "KQED" you find almost a hundred clips on everything from the physics of baseball to predicting the weather! All of them are anywhere from a few minutes to no more than half an hour and are free. The age levels are different for each but appear to be good for the upper elementary/middle/high school level.
I hope that you all get something useful out of this blog. I know that I did doing the assignment. Now if you will excuse me, I have a shark trying to eat me off of my surfboard.
2 comments:
Great finds!!!
I liked the Cash out, the best! It makes the player really think and draw on the math skills that they have. Plus is gives them a real world application with fun graphics. I also liked the Shark game, because it used the manipulatives.
I enjoyed the Shark game. It seems both engaging and instructionally sound. Great resources. Thanks also for including the info about KQED. There are thousands of podcasts out there that make wonderful study and review sources or students.
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