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Recommended educational gaming websites
The following sites offer a variety of games which enhance all around academic knowledge and skills for all ages.
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- Arcademic Skill Builders |
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- BBC Schools |
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- CBBC |
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Recommended games
The following are browser-based free games.
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- 3rd World Farmer. Age Range: Ages 11 and up. Description: 3rd World Farmer lets players manage a small virtual farm in a developing country, and thus experience the hardships and dilemmas faced by the poor. |
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- Ayiti – The Cost of Life. Age Range: Ages 11 and up. Description: Ayiti: The Cost of Life is a game that challenges its players to manage a rural family of five in Haiti over four years and keep them healthy, get them educated, and help them survive. (Lesson plan included) |
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- Change Your Generation. Age Range: Ages 11 and up. Description: Austin Energy is intended to educate players about the challenges inherent in providing energy for a city. Players get to make decisions about what types of energy the City of Austin will use and see the impact of their decisions in terms of cost, availability, capacity, and the environment. |
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- Climate Challenge. Age Range: Ages 18 and up. Description -- A game where the player is the president of the European Nations. The player must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office. |
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- Darfur Is Dying. Age Range: Ages 18 and up. Description -- Darfur is Dying provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. Players must keep their refugee camp functioning in the face of possible attack by Janjaweed militias. |
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- Farmtasia. Age Range: Ages 6 and up. Description -- The players get to operate the farm the way they wish. The goal is to create a profitable farm while running it responsibly and efficiently. They will also get to meet different people online. The game includes a variety of different major cities in the world where players will get a taste of different culture, weather and working practice which will affect how they run the farm. |
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- FloodSim. Age Range: 18 and up. Description: FloodSim puts you in control of all flood policy decisions and spending in the UK for 3 years. Whether its deciding how much money to allocate to flood defences, deciding where to build houses, or how best to inform people about the risk of flooding, you are in control. |
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- Food Detectives Fight BAC. Age Range: 7 and up. Description -- The Food Detectives Fight BAC!® game gives players a fun way to learn about foodborne illness. |
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- Free Rice. Age Range: Ages 7 and up. |
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- Go Goat Go. Age Range: Ages 3 and up. Description: Game about the importance of goats to the livelihood of a poor village. |
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- Mongolian Conquests. Age Range: Ages 7 and up. Description: Game about the three famous Mongolian Conquests. Players play as the commander of the army who is responsible for the training and battle. Players relive the experience of the three conquests in details. (Teacher resources available) |
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- Stop Disasters! Age Range – Ages 7 and up Description -- The on-line game aims at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. (Teacher resources available) |
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- Stop Whaling Game. Age Range: Ages 7 and up. Description: Steer the Greenpeace inflatable boat around the seas and intercept the dangerous harpoons from the whaling ship. |
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- Wasteland Adventure. Age Range: Ages 3 and up. Description: The earth lost the ability to heal and the environment continues to get worse. The fresh air and clean water are polluted. The son of a scientist, BOBO is very interested in the garbage that has polluted the earth. The player plays as BOBO to clean up the environment. |
