Featured Sites: Week of Jan 26, 2025

 

5 Minute Mystery - Mystery Competition, LLC
Grades
4 to 12
This mystery reading game helps increase reading comprehension and critical thinking skills in an innovative way. The basic game is free. You can sign up to have two mysteries a ...
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Quandary - Learning Games Network
Grades
3 to 9
Quandary is an online simulation in ethical decision-making while building a new colony on the planet Braxos. Face decisions without right or wrong answers but that have implications...
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0h h1 - Martin Kool
Grades
3 to 12
Oh h1 is an addicting and challenging interactive for problem solving and logic. Choose from four different grid sizes to play. Click on squares to make them red or blue. ...
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Odd Squad - Odd Squad
Grades
1 to 4
Odd Squad had its start with the television series Odd Squad on PBS Kids. Join the squad as an agent to solve challenges using reasoning and math skills to "put ...
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Gridlock Buster - ITS Institute, University of Minnesota
Grades
K to 12
Become a member of Traffic Team Alpha. Join the mission to get cars through intersections as quickly as possible by controlling traffic lights. As you complete each mission, move up...
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Which One Doesn't Belong? - Mary Bourassa
Grades
5 to 12
Which One Doesn't Belong provides stimulating and challenging math puzzles. Select a category to find puzzles related to numbers, shapes, graphs, expressions, photos, incomplete sets,...
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Nova Labs - PBS
Grades
6 to 12
Engage in authentic scientific exploration with the games and interactives offered through Nova Labs. Engage in lab topics of cybersecurity, evolution, RNA, clouds, energy, and the...
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Education for the Real World - EVERFI
Grades
2 to 12
EVERFI provides free digital curricula in real-world skills through interactive, game-based lessons. Topics include financial education, STEM and career readiness, social and emotional...
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Brain Teasers and Puzzles - Brain Easer
Grades
2 to 12
Improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills through the use of brain teasers, puzzles, and riddles found on this clever site. Select from fifteen categories of teasers divided...
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Wordle - Josh Wardle
Grades
3 to 12
Wordle is a deceptively easy-looking word game that promotes problem-solving and strategy skills to solve a daily five-letter word. Players get six chances to solve for the word of...
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Sembl - Dan Finkel
Grades
K to 6
Sembl is a platform that shares curated tasks to teach and practice math skills in grades K-6. Create an account using your email and select the grades you teach. Find ...
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Wordsmith - Wordsmith
Grades
5 to 12
Challenge yourself and your students with this fast-paced word game. Create as many words as you can in 120 seconds. Longer words will get a higher score, so click the ...
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Connections - ConnectionsGame.org
Grades
4 to 12
Connections lets players create personalized "custom" versions of the New York Times' Connections game. The game's goal is to identify the four words in four categories with connections...
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The Purring Test - TED
Grades
3 to 12
Looking for a quick, engaging brain break? TED's "The Purring Test" offers just that and more. Perfect for adding a playful twist to your classroom, TED's first game, The Purring ...
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