Educational Games for Kids at School
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Ever since the days of fictional delinquents Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, children have wished they could play games rather than go to school. Thanks to computers, now they can combine the two. Game designers have built games to help reinforce traditional school lessons in everything from science to geography. - DinoKids Geography is an online Flash game that tests children on their knowledge of world geography by providing a spinning globe and a nation somewhere on Earth to find. In addition to some basic facts about the nation, such as what continent it is located on, children learn what languages are spoken natively in the country and what its capital is. One of the DinoKids is always present in the upper right corner to give kids encouragement as they go.
- The DinoKids Math game is another Flash game which challenges children with the encouragement of one of the DinoKids. This time kids must provide the number to complete the addition question before the time limit. Questions start out easy, such as "2 + ? = 4" and get progressively harder until, at the highest difficulty, questions such as "5 + ? + ? = 17" are asked.
- Princess Math is a twist on the Dress-Up games which are common. The princess must dress for her ball, but each article of clothing is associated with a number, and she must combine the clothing and accessories so that they not only make a lovely outfit, but also solve the math equation presented. As play continues, the Princess' wardrobe expands, and so do the difficulty of the problems to solve. At the beginning of the game, you can choose which of the four arithmetical operations to use in that game.
- The Pavlov's Dog game is a simple Flash game on the website for the Nobel Prize Foundation designed to allow children to recreate the famous Nobel Prize winning experiment by Ivan Pavlov using a cartoon dog, some food and a variety of musical instruments. Using these tools, they can teach the dog to drool whenever a specific musical instrument is played.
- Adjective adventure teaches children about the part of speech known as the "adjective" and how to recognize it. A group of spiders hanging from threads each have a common English word above them, and the child must select the spider whose word is an adjective, such as "quick," from a list of nouns, verbs and other words.
DinoKids Geography
DinoKids Math
Princess Math
Pavlov's Dog Game
Adjective Adventure
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