educational games

The Houghton Mifflin Education Place has several interactive games that I thought were fun. There is an underwater spelling game in which you have to match two parts of a word together to form one whole word. For example: thr___ and ____ow.  There is a section where you can create mad libs, which has a link to follow if you have trouble with the parts of speech. There is also a proofreading game, a definition guessing game, and brain teasers, appropriate for every grade level.

At FunBrain, there is a game that is pretty clever once you figure it out, which I couldn’t really do at first. It’s a car race against the computer. There is a grid of math facts and you are given a row of them to choose from. The answer to the math fact you choose is how far you go. The computer then chooses a math fact from the same column as the one you chose, so you race around the track. It is probably to complex for some students but for an enrichment activity, I thought it was a good option.