Software Resources

Arcademic Games

Grade/Age Level: for reading and math in grades 3-8

Subject Areas: Language Arts, Math (Subtraction, Addition, Multiplication, Division, Fraction)

Platform: Mac/Window. This software works with both Mac OS & Windows

Review:

Every since I heard of this website I have not gotten a time to go to it and try it out but it seems fun for the students to do in or out of the classroom. This software was introduced to 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders at the Denali Elementary School where I did my field working for the ED 201. The software does different math racing games and language arts games. It is a good site to go to for students while they are in school or at home. The site for this software does not seem to have advertisements that would be distracting to students. Students just can sign in with a name the system gives them or one of them can be a host and make a password so they would know who all is playing.

Math Playground

Grade/Age Level: Grades 4-6

Subject Areas: Math (at mall, pumpkin multiples, percent shopping, math millionaire, algebra scales, space racer, number invaders, algebra puzzle, weigh wangoodle, making change, math Olympics, alien angles, calculator chaos, locate the aliens, space boy to the rescue)

Platform: I think it both works for Mac OS and Windows. This site requires the latest adobe flashplayer.

Review:

This site was created by teachers who are passionate about math and technology.

The website had ads for any kind of quiz.

School Time Games

Grade/Age Level: K-8 (recommended in the K-8 teaching magazine)

Subject Areas: Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Math, Sports, Logic, Arcade, Brain Games

Platform: Mac OS and Windows both computers will work for this site.

Review:

This is a recommended site for Teaching K-8 Magazine. I had a hard time with geography when I was playing this game but I won even though I made a lot of mistakes. There are many different kind of games. It would be good for students in the grade 3-5. I didn’t really go through all the games just the social studies.