Brain Games
Have a few minutes to have some fun, but still learn a lot?
Take a look at these amazing gaming websites by very distinguished organizations like
Discover, National Geographic and the Nobel Prize!
Just click on VIEW under the website title.
Brain Pop — Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology
Cool Math Games — Coolmath Games is a brain-training site, for everyone, where logic & thinking & math meets fun & games.
Freerice — For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme.
FunBrain — FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math, grammar, science, spelling, history)
Funtotype — Learn to type faster by playing fun, free online typing games. Typing Games fun for kids and adults!
Khan Academy — Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
National Geographic — There’s a lot of cool stuff here, like Fossil Hunts, Journey to the Edge, Rhino Rescue, Monster Fish of the Congo, Earth in Balance, and How Taboo are You?
Newsela — Humans are bringing Earth its 6th mass extinction; we can also stop it. The dinosaurs could not do anything about the asteroid that wiped them out.
Nobel Prize Games — “These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you’re having FUN!” This is one of the more high end sites in terms of the level of content. Challenging fun for middle school students, high schoolers, college students, and adults.
Prongo — Prongo.com is an educational website for Kids. We offer fun, interactive, and educational games for kids.
Quizlet — Create study/flash cards online.
Scratch — Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
Sheppard Software — Hundreds of fun educational games and activities for kids to play online. Topics include math, geography, animals, and more.
Sporcle — Challenge your brain with some fun quizzes, games and puzzles that test your knowledge in every subject possible.
TA's Alphabetizing Fiction — Practice organizing fiction books
Ted — TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading - through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.
Tumblr Writing Prompts — Daily writing prompts to inspire creativity and message the imagination.
TypingClub — Master touch typing using this free game / training program.
Wolfram Alpha — From Wikipedia: Wolfram Allpha is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data", rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.
Wordle — Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.