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Games in Education is an extremely comprehensive wiki providing a searchable database of educational games, on- and off-line, many with links to teacher resources for using the game/s in the classroom. Truly amazing!
CreateScratch - from the MIT Media Lab
"Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively." Snap!
Formerly Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB), Snap! is an extended reimplementation of Scratch that allows people to build their own blocks. |
GiveFreeRice.com
Site maintained by the United Nations World Food Programme where participants answer educational questions & sponsors donate for every correct answer. Windy Leaf
Downloadable game, from which a portion of proceeds goes to the Red Cross. Lemons for Literacy
Vocabulary game where for every correct answer, sponsor Reading Horizons donates money toward free literacy materials. |
Learn / Work / PlayChore Wars
Turn household chores into part of an epic adventure! |
Card GamesPagat
Pretty amazing collection of card and tile games - with explations of game play and rules. |
Indoor SportsFree Summer Bowling!
Two free games every day during the summer for registered kids - and discounts for their parents/caregivers. |
Competitions / Challenges
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
– Bernice Johnson Reagon (American Historian and Musician)
– Bernice Johnson Reagon (American Historian and Musician)
Technovation by Iridescent
"The mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship. We aim to inspire girls to see themselves not just as users of technology, but as inventors, designers, builders and entrepreneurs."
"The mission of the Technovation Challenge is to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship. We aim to inspire girls to see themselves not just as users of technology, but as inventors, designers, builders and entrepreneurs."