texas lottery
9 Fun Games that Motivate Kids to Study
Think all video games are bad for kids? Not so. Even as studies continue to be conducted and debates heat up regarding the negative effects of video games for the mental state of young children, many schools and educators are advocating the use of these very games to help children learn better. Here are some of the fun games and online resources that can help motivate kids to study harder:
Mathematics
Who Wants to be a Mathonaire?
If the title seems familiar, it's because it's based on the popular TV game, except that the questions are all about mathematics. The animated show host is fun to watch and kids will love how math problems are presented in increasing difficulty. Perfect if you want to motivate them to study a subject most kids dislike.
![""]("../wp-content/uploads/2010/05/credit-repair1-300x66.jpg" "\"improve")
Counting on a Cloud
This game is designed to help teach kids in K1 to learn how to count. Fun pictures are accompanied by sound so children are motivated to participate.
Piggy Bank
Kids familiar with Tetris will find this game stimulating. Instead of bricks or same colored objects, kids must be able to figure out the amount in the columns in order to eliminate them. If they can't, the columns will fill up.
Language
Alphabet Soup
This is a great game for helping children learn spelling. The game consists of a bowl of alphabet soup from which kids can fish for letters to form words. There are available levels to interest and challenge kids from the 2nd grade to the 5th grade.
Game of the Vegetrons
Build your kids' vocabulary and motivate them to study with this game, which encourages them to learn the meaning of words.
Critter Jumble
This is another fun spelling game to build skills. Kids will have to move letters in order to reveal the correct word.
Geography and Archaeology
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
This game has raised many grade school children (who are now grown) and is one of the few games that have made geography exciting again. The game is a terrific interactive quest that is best for children in the 5th and 6th grades.
![""]("../wp-content/uploads/2010/05/fat-loss1.jpg" "\"how")
Hunt the Ancestor
Kids can learn more about human evolution with this interactive game where they will be required to find the remains of their 'ancestor'. They will then be motivated to collect information about their 'finds' and study them.
Treasure Cave
Want to motivate your kids to study geography? This is a great game for them to play. The objective of the game is to locate a treasure. To do so, kids must answer geography-related questions and find clues.
Online resources for games
Thanks to educational websites, finding games that can motivate your kids to study just got easier. SheppardSoftware.com is one such website that offers interactive online games. Games are categorized based on type, so it's easy to choose which ones your kids want to try. Subjects such as vocabulary, mathematics, history, health and science are covered.
NobelPrize.org is also an excellent site. Click on the link to educational games and you will be brought to a page where children can be motivated to study subjects such as literature, economics, physiology, chemistry and physics. The games are simple but very effective. They are also fun to play. You'd be surprised at how addictive they can be, even for adults.
I hope you find some these tips useful and helpful in staying motivated, and finding ways on how to stay motivated, with the mentality so that you can always find a way on how to stay postivitve.
Joe …
Leave me a comment
Tags: getting kids to study
Thanks for sharing information with all. I am also looking for rss to get regular updates.
Hy. I simply want to emphasize that what you say here is really nice sharing so I have post http://motivated.goalsettingtools.net/?p=14 on my Twitter profile so all can have the freedom to enjoy.
sounds good
We absolutely love your blog and find many of your post’s to be just what I’m looking for. Would you offer guest writers to write content to suit your needs? I wouldn’t mind publishing a post or elaborating on most of the subjects you write about here. Again, awesome website!
Cool. I’ve been searching for some details along these lines for a couple weeks now.
sure just let me know
Great blog here! Also your website loads up fast! What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to your host? I wish my website loaded up as quickly as yours lol
It’s exhausting to search out educated people on this subject, however you sound like you recognize what you’re speaking about! Thanks
Do you have a spam problem on this website; I also am a blogger, and I was curious about your situation; we have developed some nice methods and we are looking to exchange techniques with others, why not shoot me an email if interested.
the spam plug in seems to do a decent job on catching most of them
hope you can give us more info in our lives
I’ve been browsing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. Itís pretty worth enough for me. In my opinion, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you did, the net will be a lot more useful than ever before.
Hi there! I’m at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone 3gs! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the excellent work!
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ~ Buddha
My spouse and i got really glad John could finish up his reports using the ideas he grabbed out of the weblog. It is now and again perplexing just to find yourself freely giving hints which usually the rest might have been making money from. So we see we now have the website owner to thank because of that. The entire illustrations you have made, the easy web site menu, the friendships you make it easier to engender – it is most terrific, and it is helping our son and the family feel that that matter is fun, and that’s wonderfully fundamental. Many thanks for everything!
I like the valuable information you provide in your articles. Iíll bookmark your blog and check again here regularly. I am quite sure Iíll learn a lot of new stuff right here! Best of luck for the next!
Thanks for sharing
Do you mind if I quote a few of your posts as long as I provide credit and sources back to your site? My blog site is in the very same niche as yours and my users would really benefit from a lot of the information you provide here. Please let me know if this alright with you. Cheers!