Simple Machines
Create simple machines to trade distance for force in this challenge game!
Innovation and Science in Everyday Life
Explore the science around you with games and interactives.
Tagxedo
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes-- into a visually stunning word cloud.
Smart is Fun!
This website has SO many games!
Create word clouds for fun or projects. Once you get creating, it's hard to stop!
What do animals think and how do their brains work?
Watch the NOVA series online and find out about brains in the animal world. There are 3 videos in this series. Does a dog's brain function better than a bird brain? You might be surprised!
GEOGUESSR - Google's Geography Game
Try to guess where you are in the world while playing this fun geography game!
Greg Tang Math
Greg Tang as the author of many children's books. He also has a great website. Play Kakooma, Math Limbo, or Numskill. Practice math skills in may different ways on this interactive site.
Integer Football
A fun way to work with positive and negative integers, Integer Football sets players up on a football field to solve problems to win or lose the game.
Number Balls
This game allows players to order integers. See how high your score can go!
Spider Match
This is a fun game that requires the player to combine integers to get a certain number and it allows up to four people!
Balanced Be Your Math!
Algebrahelp.com is a collection of lessons, calculators, and worksheets created to assist you with learning algebra.
Become a Crime Scene Investigator and Try to Solve a Roman Mystery
Be a Roman sleuth - use your detective skills to unravel the events behind a mysterious death. You have until dawn to investigate the crime scene, and crack the case. Piece together the puzzle using their evidence, eye-witness testimonies, and perhaps a little detective's intuition.
Mummy Mystery
Collect clues and figure out which mummy belongs in the tomb!
Kinetic City
This is a WOW website. It is packed with science games.
Want to be a News Anchor? Use this online teleprompter and become an instant expert!
1. Think about a topic that you would like to learn about.
2. Gather information from the internet using websites, books, encyclopedia, or any appropriate sources.
3. Write your own script using a word processor for a TV-style report based on the current information you have gathered.
4. Paste your script into CuePromptor.
5. Share your report using the CuePromptor while standing in front of our SMART Board using maps or other pictures related to your report projected in the background.
More Puzzles!
Do you love a challenge? This site has great puzzles.
Save the Egg!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/marchofthepenguins/game/
Astronomy for Kids
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/
NASA's Space Place
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/
Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases_calendar.phtml
On the Trail of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Colony Adventure
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/interactiveadventures/john-smith/
Pirate Adventure Games
http://www.timewarptrio.com/adventures/jolly/
Colonial Life
http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/colonization_colonial_life.html
Build a Panda Habitat
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral/design/default.cfm
Try creating a new giant panda habitat for Mei Xiang and Tian Tian. See if you can balance the needs of the pandas, visitors, and staff!
Choose narrated Broadband version.
Biomes of the World
http://www.mbgnet.net/
~It's a WiLd WiLd World~
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
Build your wildest self ever at this fun website. Ed Heads
http://www.edheads.org/
Gizmos!
https://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cUser.dspLoginJoin Use this link to find science and math gizmos.
Math Playground
http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html Find great math games at this site! I tried the algebraic reasoning games and got hooked! Enjoy.
A Complete Guide to Genre Characteristics
http://www.buncombe.k12.nc.us/cms/lib5/NC01000308/Centricity/Domain/2665/Genre Characteristics Chart.pdf
'Just Right' Book List for Independent Reading
http://home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/gradefour.html
Multiplication Fun
http://www.bigbrainz.com/Download.html
Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Events Series
http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
Guardians of Ga’hoole Series
http://www.scholastic.com/gahoole/books.htm
Warriors: Omen of the Stars
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com
An ordinary boy discovers he has surprising powers in this series.