Math Practice Game

Core Competencies:  

Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal Awareness and Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Additional practice for concepts that benefit from significant practice (ex. operation practice). 

Word Problem practice- can be individually assigned or together in groups. 

Teacher has ability to set individual difficulty level for students to differentiate practice. 

Hints or tutorials pop up for students who are struggling to explain how to complete a question. 

At home practice of classroom concepts, communication with parents about which math unit the class is studying. 

Assessment- students can be assigned questions on a specific outcome from the curriculum. Program provides easy to read data on students skills, showing which students are above, at and below grade level. 

Math Practice Game

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal Awareness and Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Very similar program to Mathletics, however is FREE! 

Downside is there is a larger emphasis on the game aspect and less on the math side in comparison. Some limitation on assessment capabilities in comparison to Mathletics. 

Language Practice Game

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal Awareness and Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Warm up or cool down class activity before beginning class. 

Individual practice of language being taught (ex. French class) 

Can be used at home for additional practice. 

Can be used in groups to encourage collaboration among students in practicing new vocabulary. 

Reading and Literacy Practice Game

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Critical Thinking, Personal Awareness and Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Guided reading practice with Ipads. 

Individual reading practice with Ipads. 

Teacher has ability to set individual difficulty level for students to differentiate reading abilities. 

At home practice of reading, communication with parents about where their child is with reading. 

Assessment- students can be assigned books at a specific level and comprehension questions. Program provides easy to read data on students skills, showing which students are above, at and below grade level. 

Fun class quizzes using computers or mobile devices 

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Social Responsibility

Classroom Applications: 

Wrap up activity for a unit already taught. 

Review as a class before a quiz or test. 

Fun get to know your peers game, students can make up a question about themselves. 

Kahoots can be created by teachers, or templates are available to use and categorized by topic. 

Movement Break App

Core Competencies: 

Personal Awareness and Responsibility, Social Responsibility

Classroom Applications: 

Whole class movement break before an assembly or presentation. 

Great alternative for recess when weather does not permit going outside. 

Mindfulness activities, calming students down after a high energy activity. 

Classroom communication and well being 

Core Competencies: 

Personal Awareness and Responsibility, Social Responsibility

Classroom Applications: 

Communication with households about student engagement in class. 

Social-emotional learning activities to share as a class. 

Video discussion board

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Creative Thinking, Social Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Students can post a video in response to a discussion question. 

During online learning, allowed students to see and hear their peers individually with each student posting a video on a topic for the class. 

Posts can be done asynchronously when students feel they have decided what to say, or when tech is available. 

Animated Educational Site, Games and tutorials organized by subject & unit

Core Competencies: 

Critical Thinking, Social Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Digital resources are categorized by age group and subject area. 

Games are more complex, most science focused games show the cause-effect relationship between human actions and environmental impacts on events such as a drought. 

Students can explore a specific area as an introduction to a unit of study (ex. forests). There are videos, questions, games etc. 

Sample Game

Platform with coding capabilities, can be adapted for specific curriculum intentions

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Positive Personal and Cultural Identity 

Classroom Applications: 

Teachers can set up a world with just your students in it for a specific purpose. 

Teachers are able to design their own worlds for students to work in, or use a template. 

Lessons for Minecraft Education

Many templates are available that are connected to specific curricular outcomes. For example, in Grade 4 there is a world designed to mimic a fur trade. Students can explore the existing fort to understand how to create their own. Then in a new world students can create their own forts, with rivers for the voyageurs and participate in a fur trade of their own making. 

As Minecraft is built mostly using cubes, it works well as a platform for teaching area, perimeter, volume and capacity. 

Platform to teach coding, ability for students to be creative in expressing their understanding 

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking

Classroom Applications: 

Can be used for students to build animations to demonstrate their understanding of concepts taught in class. For example, the life cycle of a plant can be coded and illustrated to show the stages a plant goes through. 

Students can create their own games and publish them to the scratch catalogue. 

Interactive stories can also be created through user friendly block based coding. 

Collaborative and interactive group project 

Core Competencies: 

Communication, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Positive Personal and Cultural Identity, Social Responsibility 

Classroom Applications: 

Great opportunity for students to work together in teams and problem solve, collaborate and think critically together. 

There are escape room templates for math, social studies, science etc. These are best used after students have some foundational knowledge of the topic and can then apply it to the escape room setting. 

BreakoutEDU uses QR codes to take students through the stages of the escape room.