educationarcade.org
Education Arcade is a site that offers educational games is subject areas such as mathematics, science, history, literacy, and language learning. It is geared toward a wide variety of ages. This site really wants to get the educational circles talking about the positive effect that gaming could have in the classroom. This site offers its games on computers, handheld devices, and you can have them delivered on-line. They use some of the popular commercial games, because they do see some educational value from those games. They also have games that were created by the some of the creators of the site that are more specific to the educational needs of today's students.
This site is perfect for chapter 9 since it is a gaming website. In the chapter is briefly discusses some practical reason to use gaming in the classroom. Two of the those reasons include giving the students a break and reviewing material learned in during the lessons. This site offers things for both of those reasons. Since it includes the popular games the kids already know and love they can play them without even realizing they are getting some educational value out of it. It also offers games specifically for education so the students can brush up on their skills.
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