Games and Other Fun Things
TypeRacer is another game to play in order to practice typing skills.
No registration is required, and you can compete against yourself or others by a race car that moves fast or slow depending on the speed of your typing. It shows your errors, and you can continue until you fix it.
It uses quotes from movies so you may have to keep an eye out for the appropriateness of them. They all seemed okay when I had a go but please let me know if you think they are inappropriate and I will remove this link.
Spywatch is a neat game – again from the BBC. In it, the player has to discover who is the spy working in Great Britain during World War II.
There’s a fair amount of reading involved, though it’s simple language and laid-out well. Early Intermediate English Language Learners would find it a challenge, but should be able to play it.
Karma Tycoon – You need to register and play online. The purpose of the game is to teach young people about social entrepreneurship and financial responsibility.
The Arcade Wire™: Airport Security
They say the front line of the War on Terror is the airport security line. See if you’ve got what it takes to keep airline travel safe in this hysterical game of airport security. Better not let that tube of toothpaste get through your checkpoint — it could be a terrorist’s weapon against freedom (or maybe it just fights gingivitis)!
Who doesn’t love riddles? For that reason, my partners and I have gathered together the best, in our opinion, riddles, puzzles, and optical illusions for your enjoyment. There are several categories to choose from, so whatever you’re looking for, you can find easily.
Contagion
Dr. Jennifer Jenson and Dr. Suzanne de Castell had developed an online game called “Contagion” which teacher 9-13 year olds how to avoid contagious diseases such as West Nile, HIV/AIDS and SARS. You can view the game here. The trailer looks awesome, but it was the only bit of 3D animation that I could see in the game from what I had played.
You need to give your email address to play this but the game is from a university site. It could be worth looking at.
Sodarace – Human and machines create and compete
Sodarace is the online Olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit.
MeChem- Building Better Bots through Chemistry
How good a bot builder are you? Can you select the right materials for your armor, weapons, power plant, capacitor and coolant to create a male or a female MeCH that can turn other MeCHs to scrap metal? What a way to learn chemistry!
Nobelprize.org has a gallery of games and simulations based on the Nobel prize-awarded achievements. Students play through games and simulations that test and build their knowledge in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics.
Games and puzzles comprise a large portion of the online java-script experience. Check out this gem. The Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility has a great K12 Education department with tons of games and puzzles.
The Education Arcade has developed an online simulation built around the American Revolution. The supporting materials and projects look engaging and open to creativity. In addition, other simulations are in the development stage.
And then there’s Scratch. Welcome to Scratch; free tile-based visual programming software from MIT. You will need to download this but then you can create your own games and share them online.
Here’s some examples of what you can do!
Another Game
Thanks to Kenny for highlighting the Stop Disaster game, which allows pupils to experience the issues at stake to limit the impact of natural disasters: earthquakes, wildfire, floods, tsunami, hurricanes.
The game comes out of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the United Nations, and encourages kids to think ahead and plan ways in to limit the damage that might be caused. If they get it wrong, they see the consequences. If they put so many defences in that tourism gets damaged, though, then this will not exactly be a win-win, either. So students are forced to think not in ‘ideal world’ terms but in quite realistic terms of economic reality versus potential
for disaster. Along the way the player wins extra information about how to best prepare, covering many themes that fit into the social subjects and environmental science.
Above all, it’s quite good fun and a race against the clock to save the world. All in a day’s work for a 21st Century kid!
Jokes Galore!
This is a site that has a different joke every day!! Pretty cool huh.
Posted by Daniel
http://www.coolquiz.com/humor/
101 New Uses for Everyday Things
Here is a site which tell you how to use thing to make your life style run just a little bit more smoothly.
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/print/0,22304,1030084,00.html
Juggler Game
Fun little game (WARNING: VERY ADDICTIVE) try it out.
http://www.coldtomatoes.com/games/juggler/pongleur5.swf
Fun with Mona
This site shows you a picture of the Mona Lisa. But the twist is that you can change the expression on her face. Have a try for yourself.
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expo/explora/image/mona/en.php
Mystery Pics
These are some cool pictures with hidden images in them. Try it to see if you can find them (some of them are really hard).
http://www.coolbubble.com/gallery.asp?gallery_name=hidden
Guess the Google
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/
This is the site to guess the google.
