Educational Websites for Students
Below are some exceptional educational websites for students that you may want to incorporate into your curriculum homework! Fun, challenging, enjoyable, and educational—you can’t go wrong in challenging your students to a competition for the highest score! Be sure to play them first, so you get a sense of the objective, and any tips that you might want to suggest for them, but you’ll be sure that this is one homework assignment that they won’t forget! In my experience, it has been just these educational websites for students that keep them talking about your class for the entire year! Try something new and refreshing to rejuvenate you and spark their interest! (See teaching ideas in the following paragraphs below).
Websites for Students
Cost of Electricity in Your Home
Heredity Basics Interactive Video
Testing Your Knowledge of Work & Machines
From this list, the City-Builder Game and the Size & Scale Challenge are probably my favorites! In the City-Builder Game, students build the energy resources for the city in order to cause the city to develop. However, once the city reaches a certain population, the city is then fast-forwarded through time to the future where the “builders” can now see some of the consequences for their energy choices. The City-Builder Game is an incredibly compelling educational website for students that will even challenge you as you play! This could be a great introduction into
- History of Japan’s earthquakes and tsunamis
- Discussion on energy resources and our role in responsibility
- Creative thinking and its importance in our world
- Recent current events
- Cause-and-effect relationships
- Economic and political strategies needed to fund city building
- Science of data collection and reporting
- Necessity of statistical analysis
The Size & Scale Challenge requires only one item to get your students started on their journey to learning more about minute sizes! A list of eighteen miniature items to be arranged in order from largest to smallest could be your introduction into the
- Intricacy and processes of the cell,
- History of sickness, plagues, and disease and their impact on civilizations,
- Perception and its effects on our judgment, or
- Limitation of our senses and improvements in technology.
But, no matter how this springboard is employed, either of these favorite educational websites for students will be an experience they will never forget! For a ready handout to use for the initial challenge, click here. At home, or in the classroom students can arrange these items in the correct order (largest to smallest) and then be ready for a discussion of their reasoning before launching into the answers. With such easily prepared, but challenging educational games, you’ll be sure to use them again to motivate students to think and explore these educational websites for students!
For games that can be brought into the classroom for a hands-on experience, review some great, fun math games available to you.