I am always looking for creative ways to keep my kids involved in their homework. From playing hide n' seek with their spelling words to math race games they can wear me out. Here I am with my oldest daughter at 22 years old all the way to my youngest at 9 and find myself still finding great ways for them to have fun while learning and keeping them involved. I find through my experience with my own children and my background in high school education all kids learn through having fun no matter what age. I don't always have time to do all these things nor the energy so I found some great interactive websites that promote fun learning objectives. Some of them even allow you to imput your own information for example your own spelling words to play hangman. Other sites are specific to content for example multiplication, division, fractions, language, proofreading, science and history. I have included some of my favorite links below:
1. Content specific areas by age group. Great interactive site:
http://www.iknowthat.com/com
2. Science content specific areas:
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Science%20Lab
3. Brainpop: video clips with Tim and Moby specific to any content specific area. Free trial for 7 days. Shows a fun animated video on topic and then follows with an interactive quiz and activities. Available in Jr and spanish versions also. Love this site!
http://www.brainpop.com/
4. Quia: For all ages and very appropriate for high school ages also. This site is created by educators. I myself in my teaching days used the templates on quia to create vocabulary reinforcement, quizes and reviews in game form like who wants to be a millionaire, battleship and hangman for students to use as aids. It is free to use shared sites from educators. This search page will allow you to enter your topic and if desired a specific text you are trying to study from.
http://www.quia.com/shared/search
5. This site is geared more for younger kids to middleschool and has a full page of different games and content areas.
http://www.lethsd.ab.ca/mmh/games/top100.htm
6. These sites were given to me for my daughter by her teacher in elementary school. They are geared for language and proofreading activities.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/proofread/proof.htm
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/paragraph1.htm
7. This site is great for even preschoolers. Pre k - 6th grade. Looking for something fun, educational and interactive to do? They have great math games, coloring pages and activities. If it comes up you need a password and username just ignore and go on it will continue to game and there is no charge.
http://funschool.kaboose.com/index.html
Enjoy! Looking for something not found here? email me. Have a suggestion for other's? email me.
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