Dean Kindig and Moira Prister » games

I Spy!

dkindig — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:25:50 +0000

You know the books. You have to find the needle in the haystack, the oar in the weather vane. Where’s Waldo when you need him?!? Here, the folks at Scholastic have put I Spy games online!
http://www.scholastic.com/ispy/games/index.htm

Make An Educational Arcade Game!

dkindig — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:59:36 +0000

http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz

Put in 6×4*24 and 6×4 will be a question in your video game, and 24 will be the correct answer. You can then play 6 different games with your questions. Use it for vocabulary, missing letter in spelling, etc.

Copy the math facts below and paste them into the opening screen and play the game “Word Shoot” to try it out . The kids like this one the most.
4×3*12
5×3*15
6×3*18
7×3*21
8×3*24
9×3*27
3×4*12
3×5*15
3×6*18
3×7*21
3×8*24
3×9*27

FlipWords and Chicktionary

dkindig — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:19:51 +0000

Click on the letters to spell a word. You can click up, down, left, right, or diagonally to spell it. http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/flipwords/index.htm

Another good game for spelling is Chicktionary. Use the letters on the chicken eggs to spell words.
http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/chicktionary/index.htm

Dean’s Book, Winning Learners

dkindig — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:59:08 +0000

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.

More Learning Games Online!

dkindig — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:58:00 +0000

Numberz – Given a target number, clik on numberz that add up to that target. Mesmerizing music and translucent graphics. You are playing against another player somewhere in the world, but it’s not a dog-eat-dog competition–Well done.

Whack-A-Verb – You remember whack-a-mole from the arcades. This is whack a verb. Evil robots poke their heads out of the ground with words on them. Decide which is the verb and whack it with your hammer.

Feed The Adjective Spider – Feed a fly to the spider with an adjective above its head and CRUNCH! The spider eats the fly. Great sound effect, and sort of icky–Perfect for Gr.2-3 boys!

Visual Memory Games

dkindig — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:11:09 +0000

Visual Memory Games - With so much on TV and in videogames, you’d think kids would be getting better at visual memory, but because the visual image is always provided for them, the skill of visualization (used in spelling, listening, and following directions) is worse now than 10 years ago. The solution? Build the ability to “see in the mind’s eye” with some online games!

http://www.learningplanet.com/act/mre/

http://www.eyecanlearn.com/#Memory

http://www.fupa.com/play/Puzzles-free-games/brainspa-visual-memory.html

http://game-games1.com/visual-memory-game.html