http://www.kongregate.com/games/QRious/fridge-magnets
Use this for spelling practice.
Robot Maze
Okay, I have a new maze game that you solve on the screen! Move your robot through the maze, picking up clocks (for extra time), maps (to see a view of the whole maze), and hammers (press Enter to hammer through a wall). I like this because you only see part of the maze, and visual-spatial memory is built when you study the map to find the exit.
http://mazegame.net/robotmaze.html
Greek Mythology
http://www.amazon.com/Theseus-Hero-Maze-Guardians-Legend/dp/0590845454
Mythology is Fun. Comics are Fun. Greek Mythology comics are fun to the funth power! Thanks to Dan Morreale for this suggestion for our Fourth Grade Mythology unit!
Kid Songs with Video
http://www.jitterbug.tv/index.php?video=yes&c=6
This is a treasure trove of children’s songs, most with their original musicians, animated. It has everything from Raffi’s songs to Barenaked Ladies singing “Pollywog In A Bog” (who knew?), world music, movie music, TV favorites, and so on.
Visual Organizers
I’ve been looking for a good site (free is good) full of visual organizers for busy teachers. I think I have found the best one:
http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
You can adapt them quickly and save them if you register.
Multiple Intelligences
Find out which of Howard Gardner’s 8 intelligences are your best way to learn. It’s a 50 item test, so it takes about 10 minutes, but you get a colorful printable pie chart and important info on the way you learn best.
CoolText
Choose your text, style, font, size, and then render and export it. Simple Pimple!–Make Logos, Name Tags, Spelling Words…
Wordles
http://www.wordle.net/create
Paste in a bunch of text and Wordle makes a colorful word cloud based on the frequency of the words in the selected passage (without the annoying the’s or and’s).
Dean’s Book, Winning Learners
My book is available at Lulu.com as a download or as a spiral-bound, ready-to-use book.
Go here: http://bit.ly/qcP5vw
WINNING LEARNERS: Prescriptive, FUN Games and Techniques, K-6 is for student teachers and beginning teachers who want to engage, motivate, and teach students with games. Focusing mainly on reading, Rochester Teacher of the Year Dean Kindig brings his 35 years of remedial teaching to the game table. Included are effective and truly involving games for remediating reading, helping handwriting, coaching creative writing, making math facts memorable, and improving spelling.
MathBOTs
I co-designed a math facts game that I have released to the public domain. MathBOTs is a rigorous, artificially-intelligent 3D, arcade-style K-6 math fact drill program for PC-compatibles. Repel invading math facts from the front view port of your spaceship. Planets warp past you as you fly to a sector where math facts zoom towards you to be repelled by your answers. MathBOTs runs from DOS or Windows (including Windows 95 and 98, 98se; and XP). It uses VGA graphics, Sound Blaster music and sound effects, 130 developmentally-sequenced missions (+ – x / and Custom), frequent review of missed facts, adjustable speeds, an animated hint mode, memory tricks, progress charting/graphing, and a custom drill editor. http://www.deankindig.com/MathBOTs/