Learning to Keyboard
Learning Games & Activities
ABCya! is a site with free educational computer games and activities for grade K-5 students, providing an interactive way for children to learn on the web. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills.
TVO Kids is a great free site with tons of educational games. Games cover many subjects including math, science, music and even arts & crafts. Practice using your mouse, counting, and your ABC's all on this wonderful site.
Arcade Diner- Serving Brain Games For Your Enjoyment! Test your puzzle solving skills and challenge your mind with the largest website for free brain games.
Free Rice. Test your vocabulary, grammar, math, geography or art history skills and earn grains of rice for each correct answer. The rice is then donated to people in need through the World Food Program.... a great site for learning or just plain review.
Learning Planet. This site offers a wealth of online learning resources, organized in grade level categories: Pre K - Kindergarten, 1st - 3rd, 4th - 6th, and 7th and up. Test your skills with the “Daily Word Search” or “Daily Sudoku” puzzles, or play a variety of other popular games that will challenge you in math, geography, language arts and more!
Starfall is a free site for teaching children to read with phonics. This systematic phonics approach, combined with phonemic awareness practice and lots of fun games and activities, is perfect for beginning readers.
These Wacky Web Tales are like Mad Libs. Practice your parts of speech and create a wacky tale. For grades 3 and above.
Alien Addition is a great game to play to practice simple addition. Log on and try your hand at some alien math!
Bees and Honey is a great game that provides a fun way to practice and master control of the mouse. Mouse control is a crucial foundational skill for all other computer activities.
Art & Creativity
Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Tagxedo is a "word cloud" site that lets you create shapes with words. You can change fonts, colors, themes, shapes, etc. You can also upload pictures of your own to create word clouds with.
Build Your Wild Self !! Create your self-portrait, then have fun mixing up arms, legs, tails, etc. to “Build Your Wild Self”! You’ll learn interesting wild animal facts in the “What’s wild about you?” section. Print your creation or email it to a friend. Then visit the New York Zoos and Aquarium sites for wild animal podcasts, slideshows, videos and more.
Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. You can make artwork, make an animated movie, make a card, t-shirt or mug, tell a story, make a drawing and much more!
Create your own self-portrait a la Pablo Picasso. Get creative- add eyes, ears, hair, color and don't forget to sign your artist's name.