Learning Games and Songs for Kids
Education through Games
and Songs
Teachers Players Students
Learning Games are a great way to build the foundation skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These learning games and songs are fun. These learning games teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids. Children will themselves work to develop their focus and skills with these learning games. Want educational games that help build skills? You've come to the right place!
Thinking to Motivate with Grades & Testing that measure?
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With these games, the children will value their own progress as treasure!
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Hangman |
Hangman teaches a broad array of skills. Children build understanding of word structure as they struggle to figure out whether to guess a vowel or consonant. They are reminded of blends and other basic skills. In this version, no stick figure characters are hurt! |
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Wizards and Pigs |
Absolutely Amazing Alliteration and time for rhyme. |
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This catchy tune teaches children about the progression of a hurricane though music and visuals. Let's just hope they never get their hands on this one! |
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We’ve probably all put together tangrams at one time or another in life. These shape puzzles help develop spatial and visualization skills, and reinforce geometry concepts such as congruency, symmetry, similarity, etc. |
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Did you ever want to know what makes the sun shine? This classic tune will explain everything you ever wanted to know about that mass of incandescent gas. |
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Brookfield Zoo Adventure
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Visit a rain forest in the village of Epulu in central Africa to get to know the people and animals who live there. Some local kids will help you learn the secrets of the Ways of Knowing Trail. |
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Cup Stacking
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Cup Stacking is the fastest growing sport among kids 6-12, and now it is also a keyboarding game! The excitement of the game builds as the child successfully builds one stack of lettered cups after another by typing the correct keys. |
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The Typing of the Ghosts
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What better way to tackle fears of things that go bump in the night than by simply typing them away? Fun graphics and engaging sounds make this a terrifically not-too-spooky keyboarding skill builder. |
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Tower of Hanoi
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Legend has it that this simple game has its roots in ancient Hindu priest training, where it was used to inspire mental discipline. It inspires some frustration, but builds skills in logic and strategic thinking. |
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Flip It |
Flip It is a strategy game where the player must turn all the pieces from one color to another by “flipping” them, while remembering that all the adjacent pieces will flip, as well. Anticipatory thinking and cause-and-effect reasoning are required for success in this challenging game. |
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Memory Lights |
A pop culture symbol of the 1980’s was a simple sequential memory building electronic game named “Simon.” Kids and parents got addicted. What maybe no one realized was just how educational it was. Memory Lights follows in Simon's footsteps. |
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Who remembers the new math revolution of the 60s? Alarmed by the Russian lead in the Space Race, America revisited our education system and switched from rote teaching of math to a focus on fundamental understandings. Children learned to recognize patterns and sets, to see variations among features. And while this can be presented as a game, it is a fundamental pre-algebra (thinking in terms of variables), logical thinking skill. Play and develop the foundation to win tomorrows space race. |
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Musical Notes |
Studies show that students with an understanding of Music Theory scored higher on the SAT than students with little understanding. This simple game is perfect for the beginning music student who needs a fun way to practice their keys and scales. |
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Arkanoid |
Games such as Arkanoid seem simple in scope, but require a great deal of hand-eye coordination, which in turn build skills in handwriting, correct tracking in reading, completing puzzles, artistic endeavors, and athletics. |
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Coin Weighing |
Coin weighing is a fantastic software simulation where children have a virtual scale and have to learn through exploratory efforts. They need to deduce through trial and error the weight of the hidden package. As children advance, you can change the settings to make it more complex. BTW - parents really like this logic challenge too! |
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Math Search |
Math Search combines the ability to solve math equations with the visual memory skills of a find and search puzzle. This is not for beginning math students, but math aficionados will adore the double challenge of the “solve and hunt” process. |
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Memory Flip |
Your child will “flip” for this old-fashioned game of concentration. Psychologists tell us that visual memory and attentiveness are key factors of intelligence. But more than that, matching colorful objects is just plain fun!! |
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Arrows |
Arrows is a sliding piece puzzle where the goal is to move colored arrows from one side of the board across to the other side. It teaches elements of problem solving, sequential thinking, and logical reasoning. |
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