Cognitive Games
- Samorost 1 Abrilliant point-and-click game with outstanding graphics. Journey through strange worlds while testing and strengthening nonverbal reasoning abilities.
- Head Spin Story Book
This is another fun game by addicting games that has great graphics. It develops spatial skills and visual processing skills.
- Free coloring pages
This site has some fun educational games. Simon, a memory-strengthening activity is great. To access select kid games. Then select Simon, under the heading Arcade Games
- Guess the Colors (just like Mastermind)
A great game to improve sequential processing and nonverbal reasoning.
- Games for the Brain
A wonderful free website that is packed with games that strengthen your brain. They have games that work on attention to detail, visual memory, visual discrimination, memory, language processing...
- All Kids Network - Free Hidden Pictures Here are some free hidden pictures that can be printed to help students with visual processing, attention to detail, and attentional difficulties.
My Favorites of all the games
General Education Games
- Khan Academy Kids This is app is amazing, fun, and comprehensive. It's worth downloading for your kids!
- Word Wall Games: Play the large selection of games created by teachers or create your own games with the academic content that needs to be learned.
- Quizlet: This site was created to help students with academic content through flashcards, practice tests, and fun games.
- Quizzez: This is another online site that turns test preparation into a game.
- FreeRice
Freerice.com can help improve vocabulary. They also have other activities that can develop other academic areas such as Chemistry, languages, art, and geography. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. FreeRice has two goals: 1) Provide education to everyone for free.
2) Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
- Sheppard Software
This website offers 100s of great learning games and activities for many academic areas and age groups
- Seterra Geography
Another wonderful website that is packed with fun map quizzes.
Writing and Language Games
Social Studies Games
- Seterra Geography A wonderful website that is packed with fun map quizzes.
- Sporcle - States
This is a good site for learning the states.
- Sporcle - Countries
This is a good site for learning the countries.
- Sheppard Software - United States
This is a good site for learning the United States.
- Sheppard Software - World Geography
This is a good site for learning world geography
- Kids National Geographic - World Geography Quiz
This is a fun way for students to test their knowledge about the world.
Spelling Games
- Spelling Training
Place your words into the online tool, and it will read the words aloud for kids to practice typing their spelling words.
- Home Spelling Words: This site offers several fun free games for kids to practice spelling grade-level words.
- Free Rice Spelling: Free Rice also offers a fun, free spelling game.
Reading Games
- Reading Bear
This website is a free phonics program that can help children learn to read. It was designed for 4-7-year-olds, and they offer multi-sensory instruction, flashcards, and quizzes.
- Khan Academy Kids This is app is amazing, fun, and comprehensive. It's worth downloading for your kids!
- Star Fall
A fun collection of Pre-K-2nd grade, interactive reading games/activities
Math Games
- Counting Strategy Game
This YouTube video offers a free demonstration and tutorial on how to play a fun numbers game with a deck of cards. I really like this game, because it also requires players to think ahead, which requires executive functioning skills and working memory.
- Alien Addition
This is a fun game that lets you practice addition by shooting at spaceships.
- JetSki Addition Speed up addition facts with this fun game that involves jet skis.
- Minus Mission
This is a fun game that lets you practice subtraction by shooting at slime.
- Island Chase Subtraction Be the fastest to answer subtraction problems and win a jet ski race around islands.
- https://mrnussbaum.com/storage/uploads/activities/boxing/NewFolder/ipad/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Genius Boxing
In Genius Boxing, you must defeat Albert Einstein, Pythagoras, Galileo, Bill Gates, Leonardo da Vinci, Nicholas Copernicus, Archimedes, and Sir Isaac Newton in boxing using your basic math skills.
- Rounding Spaceships
This game helps you practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten.
Typing Games
- Dance Mat Typing
This is an excellent, free beginner's typing game by the BBC.
- Rollercoaster Typing Game This is a fun way to challenge students at different touch typing levels, and the graphics are really cool.
- Dragon Island Typing Game This is a fun way to challenge students at different touch typing levels, and the graphics are really cool.
- RataType This site will help improve both typing speed and keyboarding skills. Students can pass a WPM test, earn typing certificates, and receive instant feedback on their performance. The site even offers free typing lessons and exercises.
- Typing Club Is geared towards older kids - tweens, teens (and adults). It begins with a typing assessment, guides the student through proper finger and hand placement, and is sequentially organized. The first 22 lessons are free, and thereafter the charge is $8/month.
- Bubble Typing Game This is a fun Pac-Man game that can help you learn the location of keys on the keyboard.
- Martian City Defender
This game helps kids locate the letters. They have to type in the string of letters to take down the attacking flying saucers.
- Meteor Typing Blast
This game helps kids locate the letters. They have to type in the string of letters to hit the oncoming meteors.
- Frogs are Off Their Diet
This game helps kids locate the letters. They have to type in the string of letters to hit down the oncoming bugs before they disappear.
- Desert Typing Racer
This game helps kids locate the letters. They have to type in the string of letters to hit down the oncoming bugs before they disappear.
- Trick or Type
This game helps kids locate the letters. They have to type in the string of letters to hit down the oncoming bugs before they disappear.
Sequencing Games
- Sequencing Fun Page
This site offers some sequencing games. Students have to place the sentences to describe behaviors like brushing teeth and making a sandwich, and other everyday activities.