Teach with Tournaments is a curriculum written by Josh Hoekstra, and was recently featured in a blog entry by William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education. I highly recommend that you read William Bennett’s blog entry, as it gives a very good summary of the idea successfully used by Mr. Hoekstra with his U.S. History students. I … Read more
For the summer, I have decided to use my Tuesday and Thursday posts to reblog some of my favorite posts that some of my readers may have missed the first time around. Bubble Ball is one of my favorite iDevice apps. It is a free download, and has 48 levels. You can purchase more after you … Read more
Pocket Law Firm is an iDevice app that is free. It comes to us from Sandra Day O’Connor’s iCivics program, which has a wonderful website that I have featured on this site. Pocket Law Firm is a game designed to teach about the Constitution. In the game, the user is in charge of a law … Read more
Silver Sphere is one of many addictive, web-based “brain” games provided by Brain Metrix. In Silver Sphere, you must beat the clock to move a silver ball to its goal. Although this sounds simple, there are obstacles and other inconveniences that make this difficult. According to Brain Metrix, “Being creative is a good thing; in … Read more
For the summer, I have decided to use my Tuesday and Thursday posts to reblog some of my favorite posts that some of my readers may have missed the first time around. Bubble Ball is one of my favorite iDevice apps. It is a free download, and has 48 levels. You can purchase more after you … Read more
Record Tripping is a challenging and enchanting (and FREE) web game that I discovered by looking at the logic portion of the Weebly site called “Mr. Arbizo’s Traveling Class“. Although the instructions for the game are fairly simple, requiring you to scroll your mouse or hold down the button, this winner of the 14th Annual … Read more