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Great Activities for Great Students

Take a break from all that studying! Refresh your brain with these fun (and educational) online activities.

If you like This Is Sand, you are going to LOVE Flame

This is Sand
A new twist on falling sand


Online kaliedoscope.  Draw some lines and watch it spin.  Very hypnotic.

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Make yourself a SuperHero.


You need to play with this one!  A 3-D movie maker you will love. 

Science/Math/Physics


lifeboat.jpg  Lifeboat to Mars Can you help get this lifeboat to Mars to rescue our Martian explorers? Registration is not required, unless you want to save your game.

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Ghostblasters.  Move over, Ghostbusters! How quickly can you reach 100 points by blasting ghosts who represent multiples of the number you choose.  I played this for a little while, and it was fun!


levers.jpgLevers!  Can you balance a
submarine, birdhouse, buckets and more?




tetris.jpgTetris.  An oldie but a goodie.  Check out the many other activities on the Creative Chemistry site, too.



orbit.jpgOrbit.  Set the comet's trajectory and see how long it takes to strike the planet.  Advance to the next level and start building a solar system.


contraption1.jpgFantastic Contraption.  Scroll down to the bottom of this page and play this Rube Goldberg game!



nature.jpgNature.  Interactive activities based on the show from PBS.  Help the cheetah avoid starvation, find out how a raptor gets prey, try not to drown on the high seas. 


geographic.jpgNational Geographic.  Sort the trash, unscramble words,Cludoku and more!


linerider.jpgLinerider.  A perennial favorite, this site does not have all the tools of some of the fancier sites, but it does not contain advertising, either.

zombiesand.jpgIt's Here!!!! You've asked and asked, and it's finally here.  ZombieSand!



Art/Puzzles/Humanities/Issues

geogreeting.jpg Send someone a Geogreeting!  Type in your text and a building shaped like the letters in your message are tagged on the Google map.  Try it!


Edit photos using Tilt/Shift Maker.

courts.jpgPlay "Do I Have A Right?" or "Supreme Decision" on the US Supreme Court's website.


wildself1.jpg Build Your Own Wild Self.  Design a whole new you!  You can even add wings, snouts and paws! Very fun.

FreePoverty.
  Answer questions about world geography and donate water to communities that have no drinkable
freepovrerty1.jpg water.  Even if you are a little off on your answer, some water is donated.  A win-win!


3rdworld.jpg Be a Third World Farmer.  Try your hand at supporting your family with just the food you can grow.  For most of the world's population, this isn't a game!

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Planet Green Game.  Calculate your carbon footprint and have fun finding ways to make it smaller. Site contains some advertising.



mazeworks.jpgMazeworks.  Play chess, several kinds of checkers, or the mysteriously addictive Tower of Hanoi.  Loads of fun and challenging puzzels!



usmap1.jpgUS Map puzzle.  A drag and drop puzzle to test your knowledge of US geography.  This game even tells you how accurate your guesses are.

probsite.jpg The Problem Site.This site has math, geometry, brain and word puzzles.  Mad Libs, The Blackberry Game, and Fizziks Tilt are great fun!

worldmap.jpgBeat the Clock.  Test your knowledge of world geography, but do it fast!  The timer doesn't give you a whole lot of time to make your choices. Site contains some advertising.

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