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Physics Games

What it is: Physics Games is a collection of fun online physics based games. There are 57 physics inspired games in the collection that can be played on the website or embedded on a classroom website, blog, or wiki. These games are great for any age, younger students will learn through exploration, trial, and error while older students will be able to understand the physics concepts behind the games. How to integrate Physics Games into the classroom: Physics Games is a great interactive site to use in the science classroom. It encourages students to start exploring concepts such as energy, force, velocity, gravity, etc. Younger students can interact with the games successfully even without the background knowledge. Each of the games encourages trial and error learning. Older students can play games and write about the physics concepts that the game introduces and explore the ‘accuracy’ of the game to display the physics concept. If you have a class website, blog, or wiki, these games would be fun to embed in your site for easy access. Tips: I learned about Physics Games from a Tweet and blog post by Mr. Byrne who writes Free Technology for Teachers. Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Physics Games in your classroom.

Statetris

Posted by admin | Posted in Fun & Games, Geography, Middle/High School, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Websites | Posted on 01-09-2008

Tags: countries, fun, game, Geography, map, states, statetris, tenkely, tetris

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What it is: Statetris brings one of my all time favorite Nintendo games into the education realm. Statetris mixes aspects of the game Tetris and geography. Instead of positioning typical Tetris blocks, students position states or countries to their proper location. There are 3 levels to play Statetris. The easiest level gives students the shape and name of the state or country. The medium level gives the students the state or country that rotates with the name of the state or country. The hardest level gives students the sate or country rotating without a label. The medium and hard levels can be very difficult because you get a state or country that isn’t straight up and down but may be rotated. Students can play Statetris with a map of the United States, Africa, Brazil, China, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, and UK.

How to integrate Statetris into the classroom: Statetris is a great place for students to learn and practice geography. The familiar game platform is popular with students and will be a fun way to memorize geography locations. This is the perfect place for students to study before a geography test.

Tips: Save this site in your bookmark bar for easy access. This is a great site for kids to visit when they complete work early and are looking for extension activities.

Please leave a comment and share how you are using Statetris in your classroom.