GAMES FOR VARIOUS SUBJECTS
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Click on this site to play games for various subjects. To find games for a certain subject, click on a subject at the bottom of the page.
GRAMMAR
http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html
Learn a word of the day, build your own dictionary, and play vocabulary games.
http://www.wordcentral.com/home.html
Synonym Pirate Game:
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/synonyms/interactive/synonyms.htm
The Joy of Pigs
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/pigs/index.html
Fractured Fairytales
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/fairytales/
Children’s Favorite Authors
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp
CURSIVE
Zane-Bloser - Handwriting activities from Zane-Bloser
Handwriting for Kids - Worksheets online to help students tackle cursive letters.
TYPING
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml
SCIENCE
Plants: This is an awesome website that introduces students to a plant's structure, life cycle, and parts.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/case1.html
Learn about Natural Disasters below!
http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm
Water: At this site, students will learn how the special properties of water allow life on the water planet—Earth. There are games to play and movies and pictures to see.
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/Water/index.html
SOCIAL STUDIES
National Government
Branches of Government!
http://www.texaslre.org/branches_game.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm
This website, Time for Kids, is an outstanding resource for kid-friendly news stories. It is great practice for reading non-fiction text, and it provides lots of extra activities for students to complete after their reading.
Election
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/election08/
http://www.weeklyreader.com/election/games.asp
Fifty States practice
OTHER
How do YOU learn best?
http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html