TeachersFirst's Game-Based Learning for Littles
This collection combines various educational games, playful simulations, and engaging digital experiences tailored specifically for kindergarten through second-grade students. By harnessing children's natural enthusiasm for play, these resources transform early learning into an adventure, making foundational skills in literacy, numeracy, and critical thinking feel like exciting discoveries rather than academic tasks. Games are a great way to level the playing field for students needing extra help. Our collection of game-based resources provides an innovative approach to laying a strong educational foundation to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

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Sesame Street - Sesame Street
Grades
K to 1tag(s): alphabet (52), back to school (62), behavior (46), preK (265)
In the Classroom
In the classroom, teachers can share various videos with the students on a whiteboard. In the games and art section, teachers can have the students engage in the games or art on individual devices or at a computer learning station.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Twinkl
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): comics and cartoons (55), creative writing (123), game based learning (183), interactive stories (21), writing (323), writing prompts (60)
In the Classroom
Engage students by introducing your Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen tasks with the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse official trailer at the bottom of the page. Discover activities for learners aged 5-16 years. Fuel your student's interest with these entertaining, curriculum-aligned, Spider-Man activities! Use one of the writing prompts for a creative warm-up activity. Play interactive games on computers as a part of daily station rotations. Free downloadable activities include occupational therapy, fine motor skills, writing prompts, reading comprehension passages, interactive games, and math activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Clever Crazes for Kids - Building Healthy Lives Foundation
Grades
K to 8tag(s): game based learning (183), multilingual (70), preK (265), STEM (287)
In the Classroom
Add games found on Clever Crazes for Kids to others shared on classroom computers. Encourage students to participate in games by earning points. Have students document and extend their learning by sharing screenshots of accomplishments and by screen recording student reading sessions to demonstrate progress. Use Seesaw, reviewed here, as a digital portfolio to document progress and share student learning with parents.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PBS Kids - PBS
Grades
K to 5tag(s): DAT device agnostic tool (146), game based learning (183), literacy (118), preK (265), video (263)
In the Classroom
Discover and share the many free resources available on PBS Kids. Show clips on your interactive whiteboard, or with your projector, then have students complete an accompanying activity. With younger students, use Gravity, reviewed here, as a video response platform for students to share how they would use what they learned by watching the videos or using the interactives. Alternatively, you might try using Acast, reviewed here; Acast is an extremely easy to use tool for creating audio to share as podcasts. PBS Kids is perfect for sharing with parents. Include a link to activities on your class website along with suggestions on how to use activities at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SplashLearn - StudyPad, Inc
Grades
K to 5tag(s): addition (127), alphabet (52), blended learning (36), decimals (84), division (97), equations (118), fractions (158), game based learning (183), geometric shapes (135), Learning Management Systems (20), measurement (123), multiplication (121), number sense (70), place value (34), preK (265), sight words (22), spelling (98), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free games and activities to provide practice and support with your math and reading curriculums. Differentiate learning based on student ability and confidence. Assign content based on students' learning goals. Share this site with parents to provide practice and support for math and ELA concepts at home. Use SplashLearn's reports and assessment results to guide your lesson planning and make adaptations to adjust to students' learning needs. Share this site with other practice activities using a bookmarking tool such as Symbaloo, reviewed here. Share your Symbaloo link with parents and on classroom computers for easy access to all learning tools shared. Use activities found in SplashLearn as part of a blended learning experience using Pear Deck, reviewed here. Include a link to the site along with videos and other learning activities found online or uploaded from your computer.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blockly Games - Google
Grades
K to 12tag(s): coding (89), game based learning (183), STEM (287)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the varying levels included with Blockly Games to introduce and develop coding skills with your students. After sharing the site on your interactive whiteboard (or with a projector), add a link to this site on classroom computers for use as a coding center. Include Blockly Games with your other coding resources using a bookmarking tool like Symbaloo EDU, reviewed here, to share links in one single tool. As students learn about coding, enhance technology use by asking them to reflect upon their learning through blogs. edublogs, reviewed here, is a free blogging platform developed for classroom use. Modify technology use and enhance learning by asking students to include screenshots of their work and discuss their problem-solving tips as they work through the different levels of coding skills. Use a screenshot tool such as Awesome Screenshot, reviewed here. As students become more proficient in using code, ask them to create their own games using Blockly, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Review Game Zone - reviewgamezone.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): atmosphere (22), drugs and alcohol (28), financial literacy (91), game based learning (183), grammar (134), human body (93), literature (219), medicine (56), painting (55), photography (119), poetry (194), space (215), spanish (108), spelling (98), weather (161)
In the Classroom
Share a link to review games on your class website for student practice at home. Include a link to games on classroom computers for use as a center. Create your own games to personalize review materials for students. Due to a large number of advertisements on the site, you may want to share this site on your interactive whiteboard with younger students before assigning for independent use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PBS Kids Lab - PBS Kids
Grades
K to 4tag(s): addition (127), counting (59), data (150), estimation (32), game based learning (183), geometric shapes (135), measurement (123), numbers (119), preK (265), professional development (403), vocabulary (239)
In the Classroom
Create a link to learning games and activities on classroom computers. Post a link on your class website for use at home. Share information on the site with parents to assist them in helping their child with math and reading skills. Be sure to share the PBS Parents Play & Learn app that provides over a dozen learning games for parents to play with their kids, best of all, it is available in English and Spanish!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Plum Landing - WGBH Educational Foundation
Grades
1 to 3tag(s): conservation (95), earth (184), earth day (60), environment (246), game based learning (183)
In the Classroom
Capture student interest in environmental science, zoology, conservation, and ecology with Plum and her human friends! Use this site in science as a way to introduce the study of the Earth, biomes, or food chains. Share the videos on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Add to computers for center time. Use Plum's adventures to inspire further adventures involving the students. Use videos as a multimedia resource to supplement the science textbook. Use the adventures to inspire either narrative or expository writing. During Earth Day, students can explore your school community. Explore other science topics and modify student learning by challenging them to create comics using a tool such as Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here, or a digital storytelling project with their own images, observations, and stories using Presentious, reviewed here. Presentious allows narrating and adding text to a picture. ENL/ESL and learning support students will find this site useful with reading support, video, and demonstrations. Have students research topics mentioned in the videos for deeper understanding. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, replace pen and paper by having students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Seesaw, reviewed here. Share research and stories with other classes in your school, students' families, and on your class website or wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ABC Splash - ABC TV and Radio Australia
Grades
K to 10tag(s): addition (127), animals (295), antarctica (30), atmosphere (22), australia (29), cells (83), climate change (93), continents (32), counting (59), decimals (84), division (97), earth (184), earthquakes (45), ecosystems (79), egypt (46), energy (131), environment (246), food chains (18), forces (37), forensics (12), fossil fuels (10), game based learning (183), gold rush (15), human body (93), immigration (68), insects (68), light (53), maps (212), molecules (43), money (114), multiplication (121), nuclear energy (20), nutrition (135), oceans (148), parts of speech (39), percent (58), perimeter (20), place value (34), plants (149), probability (98), rhymes (21), rocks (35), songs (44), sound (72), subtraction (108), time (92), vietnam (38), volcanoes (54), weather (161), whole numbers (9), world war 1 (79), world war 2 (160)
In the Classroom
This site is excellent for enrichment. Include it on your class web page for students to access both in and out of class. Share this link on your class web page and/or in a parent newsletter for help with homework and school projects. These high-quality media resources will engage your students and enhance their learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Flippity - Flippity.net
Grades
2 to 12tag(s): flash cards (42), game based learning (183), quiz (65), quizzes (89), test prep (69), vocabulary (239), vocabulary development (92)
In the Classroom
This is a fantastic tool for vocabulary development in any subject area! Create flashcards for your classes or have them make their own using individual or a whole class Google account. Use them as an introduction to a concept, then again in the practice of the concept, and again as a final review. It is a nice three-for-one deal! Use with science terms or for standardized test preparation. Have students create flashcards and share with each other to quiz themselves within their own groups. Encourage students in upper grades to create their own spreadsheet and flash card sets. Show them how to carefully read through their classroom notes and underline the most important word or words in a sentence. Then have them leave out the most important words for their flashcards. Learning support teachers might want to have small groups create cards together to review before tests. Have students create flash card sets to "test" classmates on what they "teach" in oral reports. Create and collect sets of vocabulary cards for your world language or ESL/ELL classes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MobyMax: Complete K-8 Curriculum - MobyMax.com
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (127), assessment (152), classroom management (123), differentiation (92), division (97), fluency (26), game based learning (183), multiplication (121), subtraction (108), vocabulary (239), vocabulary development (92)
In the Classroom
Create a classroom account. Use MobyMax during centers, for nightly homework, or computer lab time. Share with parents as an excellent resource for practicing math, reading, writing, grammar, science, and vocabulary skills at home. Use the pre-testing features at the beginning of the school year to get students started at the correct levels. Use this tool to differentiate for all students. Your gifted students can pretest out of material already learned and receive activities and instruction at their individual level. Be sure to bookmark this site to use with all levels of students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Room Recess Educational Games for Kids - roomrecess.com
Grades
K to 6tag(s): addition (127), antonyms (12), division (97), flash cards (42), fractions (158), game based learning (183), keyboarding (28), multiples (15), multiplication (121), operations (72), parts of speech (39), prefixes (10), preK (265), reading strategies (103), sequencing (17), spelling (98), subtraction (108), time (92)
In the Classroom
Choose these games for student play during computer lab or at classroom centers to practice math and language skills. Although simple, they provide fun review of skills. Demonstrate some of the activities on your interactive whiteboard. Although this site was created to help teachers find educational "fun" activities to do during indoor recess, the activities would also be great for learning centers or use in an interactive whiteboard center. The reading category for this site is the most valuable for learning new skills or reviewing skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Turtlediary - Learning Games for Kids - Turtlediary.com
Grades
K to 3This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (127), alphabet (52), alphabetical order (8), colors (63), counting (59), dinosaurs (42), gravity (42), human body (93), life cycles (21), map skills (59), phonics (49), preK (265), puzzles (144), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a resource for learning games, videos, and read-aloud books. Demonstrate the activities on your interactive whiteboard; then create a link on classroom computers for students to try on their own. Share this link with parents on your classroom website or newsletter as a resource for practicing math and reading skills at home. Use videos from the site to introduce science lessons and concepts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ABCya - ABCYA.com, l.l.c,
Grades
K to 6tag(s): alphabet (52), decimals (84), drawing (61), fractions (158), game based learning (183), geometric shapes (135), keyboarding (28), latitude (10), literacy (118), longitude (9), number sense (70), numbers (119), operations (72), preK (265)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector, demonstrate how to use the specific tool/activity. Create a learning center on your whiteboard or on individual laptops and allow students to try it out on their own. List this as a student and parent resource on your classroom website. Use this site to informally assess skills to tell you which students to allow to do alternative work or go ahead. Allow your gifted students to explore new concepts while providing necessary reinforcement for those learners that need a technology-inspired method to help master learning goals. This is an excellent tool for differentiating. Provide as an anticipatory guide for new units.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cardboard Cognition - San Diego State University Department of Education
Grades
K to 6tag(s): capitals (16), logic (162), number sense (70), nutrition (135), puzzles (144)
In the Classroom
Create games to use for classroom centers, homework, or practice with classroom skills. Older students can be given directions and create their own card games. Use the card games on the site as inspiration for creating card games appropriate for your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Play - Doina Popovici
Grades
K to 8tag(s): addition (127), decimals (84), fractions (158), subtraction (108)
In the Classroom
A great website for a math game day due to the variety of concepts and levels. Use these activities as an informal assessment by observing students as they engage. Try using an interactive whiteboard to encourage friendly competition when students individual laptops are not available.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Dinosaur Train - PBS Kids
Grades
K to 4NOTE: the popularity of this site can make it slow to load, especially at peak times. Open it on the classroom computer before the lesson so it is in the "cache," and avoid heavy traffic times such as 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time when schools are online across the U.S.
tag(s): counting (59), dinosaurs (42), measurement (123), paleontology (29), preK (265)
In the Classroom
If you are teaching about dinosaurs, herbivores, carnivores, measurements, and many other topics, share this site on your interactive whiteboard. Share parts of the video clips and then discuss the science concepts discussed. Have students use the "Field Guides" to learn more about specific dinosaurs. Transform learning by having cooperative learning groups create multimedia presentations using Adobe Express for Education, reviewed here, about the dinosaurs they study. How about creating a class DinoWiki (dinosaur wiki). Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries - check out the TeachersFirst's Wiki Walk-Through. Be sure to list this site on your class website for all of your dinosaur loving students to view at home!NOTE: Open this site on the classroom computer before the lesson so it is in the "cache," and avoid heavy traffic times such as 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time when schools are online across the U.S.
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Fun 4 the Brain - Natasha Oliver
Grades
K to 6tag(s): addition (127), division (97), fractions (158), grammar (134), multiplication (121), subtraction (108), vision (45)
In the Classroom
Share the games on your interactive whiteboard or projector. If individual computers aren't available, set up a computer cluster for students to explore this site. Allow students to practice skills for mastery, remediation, and reinforcement using the variety of games offered on the site. This is definitely a site to list on your class web page for students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sid the Science Kid - PBS Kids
Grades
K to 2tag(s): heat (16), measurement (123), preK (265), senses (20)
In the Classroom
The possibilities at this site are endless. You may find a short video to share with your class. Be sure to save this site in your favorites. Explore this site with your students on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Set-up learning centers using this website. Students may want to explore this site during independent time when other work is complete. You may also want to list this site on your class website (or on your class newsletter, if applicable).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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