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Supplementing Teaching with Gaming Phyllis Tate-Presenter Middles are big gammers and our team found out that many of the students we teach spend hours and hours on interactive games.

Media director at the Dorset school K-8.

Pedagogy Samr model developed by Rubin Puentedura Subsitution, Augmentatiuon, Modification, Redefinition

Helps to justify games in the classroom TpACk model

Play the games yourself to checkout what the skills are and what the games are about

ABCya free and web based. Designed for k-5 featured games. There are also free apps for iPad on the right.

Improves mouse skills as well as academic skills. Problem solving.

Lord of the Labyrinth labyrinth.thinkport.org create classes Builds math skills to increase fractions and rations and proportions. 5th grade level

Play and Puzzles Several games with 3 different levels in each game. Uses different symbols for numbers. When kids sign in it saves the place where the student stopped. Tracks the progress of students The question is does it keep track of skills they do not know Has teachers' resources that explains the math, gives you a lesson, and tells you how to play the game.

Big Brainz --addition/subtraction and multiplication/Division 3/4 Grade level. Or second grade and up. Downloadable program and data is stored on the game site. Must be downloaded on any computer the want to use it on. Graphics take more time to load than text.

Instead of using the word Killed, we tell the kids to say "challenged" the robot. Boys and Girls like this equally. Can create different environments.

Civilization IV Builds worlds around ancient civilizations. Used in social studies. This is a CD the cost is about 20 bucks. There are a few online free versions.

Krpoof --disney-- multimedia game. Movie making skills.

Scratch programming games. Menga High

Mine craft Work collaboratively to problem solve.