Virtual Arcade

Make Your Own Games

 

• Scratch is a free, fun and easy-to-use application that gives kids and adults the tools they need to build their own games. And the good news is that you won't have to write a single line of computer code to do it!

A Learning Games Sampler

 

• Ayiti, a game co-created by a group of high school students, looks at the issue of poverty in Haiti and how it impacts access to education.
• CO2Fx is a simulation that helps players understand global warming and the issues that surround it.
• Practice your teaching skills in simSchool’s virtual classroom.
• Flow seems simple on the surface. But this game has lots of layers.
• Learn how you can help stop a modern-day genocide in Darfur is Dying.
• Do you like “getting small”? Go on a Nanoquest and learn about nanotechnology in a colorful 3-D game space.
• Use your knowledge of physics to keep the penguin (that is a penguin, right?) from crashing in Line Rider.
• Love detective stories? Then try your hand at Secrets@Sea – and solve some real-world ocean-themed cases.>
• Lemonade Stand will test your skills as an entrepreneur.
• Within six weeks of its launch, Food Force had one million users. Try these six missions to race against time and feed thousands of people in the fictitious island of Sheylan.
• Create your own snowflakes!
• DragonFly TV Cup is a nifty way to practice your skills at navigating a ship around an obstacle course.
• Build a virtual frog – no dissection required.

 

Learning Game Portals

 

• HA Games offers middle-school students "stealth education" in a set of cool math and science games.
• Cut the Knot Games has simple but neat games and puzzles covering various math topics. (We've had some problems accessing this site with Firefox. Explorer and Safari, though, seem to do the trick just fine.)
• Social Impact Games links to a huge range of "entertaining games with non-entertainment goals" for kids and grown-ups.
• MazeWorks features a wide range of logic games, puzzles and mazes, including classics like the Tower of Hanoi.
• Cognitive Labs offers plenty of gaming brain food and some retro favorites, too.
• You’ll find a cool clearinghouse of free online learning games, all organized by subject, at the Gameaquarium.
• PBS’s Cyberchase is an Emmy Award-winning series that teaches kids aged 8-12 math concepts in a fun way they can understand. This site offers games such as Mission Magnetite, where you have to match fractions, percents, and images to prevent Hacker from fueling up his space ship.
• The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives presents a number of mathematics-based simulations and games, grouped by age level and mathematics strand.
• As part of their Learning Division, the UK’s BBC presents a range of games, organized by discipline and grade level.
• You can think like a Nobel Prize-winning scientist or mathematician by playing the games and simulations offered by the Nobel Foundation and its commercial partners.
• Mike Mountain Horse Elementary School in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, offers this list of what their staff considers to be the top 100 online learning games.
  

 

 

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