Educational Online Games your Students will Love
Have you been stuck for ideas on where to find your next great teaching resource? Well look no further than this fantastic list of teacher-approved websites that you can use in your classrooms to keep engagement up and students eager to come back for more!
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This list is in order of academic level, starting with kindergarten resources working up to secondary school. If you teach older students, be sure to read until the end!
Starfall - starfall.com
This simple, yet classic website is great for kindergarten level students. Starfall’s colourful website provides fun games, rhymes, and songs for phonics, mathematics, and reading. With cute added sound effects, your younger learners are sure to stay engaged and shriek with excitement every time you pop this website up on the board!
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TopMarks – topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
Great for kindergarten and primary students, TopMarks focuses on phonics, mathematics and basic numeracy through imaginative games and exciting visual graphics. The only downside is that this website runs quite a few ads, so you may want to sit together with your student to check they’re not being redirected to any other website.
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Baamboozle - https://www.baamboozle.com/
An excellent website for exploring thousands of teacher-made games for absolutely any topic, grammar point, or vocabulary you could think of! If, by the odd chance, you don’t find the game you’re looking for, you can easily create your own with a free account! Try different game styles, such as Connect 4, tic-tac-toe, memory games, odd-one-out, and bingo.
Baamboozle.com
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Minecraft Education - education.minecraft.net
Did you know Minecraft has an entire platform dedicated to use in the classroom? Minecraft Education is an unlikely candidate, but an online game your kids are no doubt already familiar with and absolutely love. Minecraft Education can provide a great way for students to experience engineering tasks and practice mathematics, creativity, collaboration, and computational thinking skills.
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National Geographic Kids - kids.nationalgeographic.com
An incredible resource, and a popular science curriculum followed in some schools, National Geographic Kids’ extensive website provides endless material on topics such as History and Space. It has a particularly good collection of animal fact files, which students can use in inquiry style lessons to gather information. When playing games or puzzles, students can choose their difficulty and unlock fun facts to spark their learning along the way.
Gimkit - https://www.gimkit.com/
Designed by a high-school student, Gimkit takes multiple choice quizzes to the next level! This website offers lots of different modes of play including team games, drawing games, and even a lava-themed game where students must strategically spend points that they have earned to buy power-ups. Questions are repeated throughout the game to ensure mastery. With so many ways to play, you’ll want to use this resource every week!
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Be sure to give these games a try and we’d love to hear about any other online resources we missed in the comments below!