Human Change Machine - Online
Description: In honor of National Video Game Day, this activity requires students to play the role of a change machine and to indicate the number of quarters a player should receive for inputting various dollar bills.
Type: Math Drill
Format: Online Activity
Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5
Human Change Machine
Description: This activity requires students to determine how many quarters will be changed from various currency amounts.
Format: Printable Activity
Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5
How Many Plays?
Description: This activity is perfect for quarter-popping video game enthusiasts. Students determine how many video game plays can be extracted out of each dollars and cents amount (assuming each game play is $0.25). For example, how many arcade games can you play if you have $2.33?
Type: Math Fun
Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6+
Using a Tally Chart to Record Favorite Video Games
Description: This activity requires students to use a tally chart to record the favorite video games of classmates and to convert the data to a bar graph.
Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3
Super Mario Brothers Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Type: Reading comprehension
Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6+
Super Mario Brothers Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Pac Man Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Pac Man Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions.
Video Game Identification Quiz
Description: How well do you know the classic video games of the past? This quiz contains images of some of the most popular video games from the 1980s and 1990s. How many can you identify correctly?
Type: Random Learning
Mr. Nussbaum's Boardwalk Challenge - Online Game
Description: This super-fun online game requires students to correctly order whole numbers and decimals on a number line. If students accomplish this task, they are rewarded with tokens that can be redeemed for chances to play any of four boardwalk games: Ski-ball, Whack-a-Pirate, Air Hockey, and Roll the Ball. Tokens are saved as long as students play on the same computer. See instructional video for more information.
Type: Math Game - Decimals Focus
Format: Game
Grade Levels: 5, 6+
Mr. Nussbaum's Boardwalk Challenge - Demonstration Video
Description: This video will show you how to use Mr. Nussbaum's Boardwalk Challenge. Please note it is an embedded YouTube video.
Type: Instructional Video
Probability Fair - Online Game
Description: This fun game allows students to earn tokens to the fair by demonstrating their understanding of probability. Once inside the fair, students can play a range of different probability games. See the demonstration video for more.
Type: Math Game
Probability Fair Demonstration Video
Description: This video will show you how to use Probability Fair. Please note that it is an embedded YouTube video.
The Lost Lunchbox - Online Educational RPG!
Description: This magical game requires students to find his or her long-lost lunchbox within the confines of a magical school. Students must visit the school's many classrooms and secret passages to complete the academic challenges that result in various clues, maps, locker combinations, and tools needed to find the lunchbox. Students can save their progress on this incredible game as long as they play on the same computer. Make sure to open the "Introduction to the Lost Lunchbox" to learn more, see cheat videos, and for the complete storyline.
Type: Role-Playing Game (RPG)
About the Lost Lunchbox - Comprehensive Instructions
Description: Read this page before playing The Lost Lunchbox. It tells about the storyline, the goals, the challenges, and much more!
The Lost Lunchbox - Cheat Videos
Description: Stuck on the Lost Lunchbox? This page contains seven instructional videos to help you get through the beginning and middle stages.
Will and His Happy Hamstars - Online Game
Description: One day, when Will and his brother Gaby, were happily playing with their happy hamstars, the mean Black Widow appeared and took them all to his underground lair. Will and Gaby were heartbroken! Now, help Will save his happy hamstars by answering the adding and subtracting problems to unlock the gates to all of the cells! As you succeed in your mission, you'll earn tokens that can be used in the Happy Hamstar machine to earn Happy Hamstar Trading Cards. Try to collect all 15 and the RARE gold cards! See the instructional video for learn more.
Grade Levels: 1, 2
Will and His Happy Hamstars Instructional Video
Description: This video will show you how to play Will and His Happy Hamstars. Please note this is an embedded YouTube video.
Alpha Baby Races - Online Game
Description: How well do you know your alphabet? Choose and name your baby and then race to the finish line by dragging and dropping the correct letter block to the question mark block in alphabetical order. Be careful! The wrong letter block will slow you down and sometimes cause tantrums. Defeat all of the other babies and earn your golden pacifier!
Type: Word/Phonics Game
Airmadillos - Online Game
Description: Welcome to AIRmadillos! While armadillos are common in much of the southern portions of the United States and Mexico, a special breed of this mysterious mammal has colonized the remote Big Bend country of west Texas. This species, known as the AIRmadillo, has taken to flying paper airplanes in its chosen habitats. Today, you can play the role of the rarely seen AIRmadillo by using your math skills and quick reflexes to help him or her fly airplanes as far possible. Launch paper airplanes and watch them rocket through the sky by choosing the optimum arm release angle. Be careful though, wind speed, direction, airplane type, setting and arm power also play major factors in determining the distance your airplane will fly. You control it all. You get one practice throw and three “official” throws. If your three official throws total a distance of 50 meters or more, you can print out a special certificate. Watch the instructional video for more.
Airmadillos Instructional Video
Description: This video will teach you how to play Airmadillos. Please note that it is an embedded YouTube video.
Terminator Turkeys and the Rise of Tanksgiving - Online Game
Description: For almost 400 years, the turkeys of North America have been gathering intelligence and secretly collaborating to plot their revenge on the dreadfully carnivorous human race. Finally, on the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, they're ready to unleash their ultimate weapons: The Terminator Turkeys on a holiday they've renamed Tanksgiving. Combining superior technology with 400 years of rage, these turkeys have secretly engineered indestructible turkey-friendly tanks to rumble through the continent's most turkey-hungry cities in an attempt to turn as many frantically fleeing humans into turkeys by blasting them with magically powered thanksgiving day sides. New York | Washington | Pittsburgh | Chicago | St. Louis | San Francisco Rumble through each of the cities listed above and blast the running humans with your sides. Look for the word located above your targets and type in the correct letter that is missing. Be careful, however, if you click the wrong letter, you'll lose precious ammo. Watch the timer as well! When you run out of ammo, or, if you run out of time, your timeless mission will result in failure.
Vowel Sound Man - Online Game
Description: In this game, students must "eat" the words with the correct vowel sound while avoiding the deadly letter ghost. It's sort of like pac-man.
Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4
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The Market - Online Stock Market Simulation
The Lost Lunchbox - Original Story
The Legend of the Breakfast for Lunch Sausage - Original Story
Burnside's Billions
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