Blog Post 12

For this assignment go to Funbrain.com. This is a safe and fun educational website that can be used during school or at home by students. You need to go to this website and find at least two different games that you could use in your classroom to help reinforce lessons that have been taught. List these games and give a brief description of how they can be helpful in your classroom. At the bottom of this site, there is also a Teacher Resources link with some useful information. Check it out. Explore and have fun!

For my first game I picked Math Baseball. With this game you can choose addition, subtraction, division, or multiplication. You can also pick any level from easy to super brain. The student will be given a math problem and if they answer correctly, they will get a hit. FUNBRAIN will decide if the hit is a single, double, triple, or home run based on the difficulty of the problem. If the answer is wrong, they will get an out. The game is over after three outs. This game will help reinforce basic math skills that are being taught and you can pick the skill based on the grade level or lesson being taught.

The second game I picked was Spellaroo. Spellaroo is a spelling game that gives you a sentence with two or more words underlined, depending on the difficulty level. You have to click on the word that is misspelled. When you get twenty correct you move on to the next level. I think this would be a helpful game for any student that is having trouble with spelling.