1. Word Games

Parents and teachers find word games to be great teaching tools. Playing online word games is a fun way for children to improve skills they need for success in school like vocabulary, comprehension, spelling and reading. Younger children can play word games like Hangman and Letter Blocks to practice their spelling, phonics and word recognition skills. Older children can play Crossword Puzzle, Word Scramble 2 and Clueless Crossword, putting their vocabulary and spelling skills to the test. Children of all ages will enjoy these word games so much; they won't even realise how much they're learning in the process.

Now test out this Game at http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/games/word-scramble.aspx

2. Knee Surgery

This game is a simulation to train surgeons to operate and fix a damaged knee. This step by step guide takes a wannabe surgeon on all the required protocols to prepare and operate on a patient. Trainee surgeons can work through this video game over and over again until they are comfortable taking a scalpel to a knee.

ow play the Game online at http://www.operationgames.org/game/37/Virtual-Knee-Surgery.html
WARNING: You should NOT try this operation in your home or classroom.

3. Warriors

The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1779, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783. (extracted from http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution on 05 April, 2012.)

Now play the Game online at
http://www.history.com/interactives/warriors-game

4. What is 3rd World Farmer?

3rd World Farmer is a new kind of game. An experiment in the genre of Serious Games, it simulates some of the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries.
In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm and is soon confronted with the difficult choices that poverty and conflict can cause.

As a farm and family management game it has an emotional impact on many players because usually these types of games play out in much easier settings, where it's always possible to prosper by playing cleverly and making the right game choices. It's not always like that in 3rd World Farmer. Just like real people are dying from starvation in desperate situations that they never asked to be put in, all it takes for things to go wrong in this game is one bad harvest, an unfortunate encounter with corrupt officials, a raid by guerrillas, a civil war, a sudden fluctuation in market prices, or any of the many other game events, that might never happen to families in industrialised countries.
By letting players experience this - albeit in a harmless, fictional setting - we hope to open their eyes to the problems and to motivate them to make positive social change. Our aim is to have everybody play the game, reflect, discuss and act on it. The game is a great starting point for discussions of 3rd World issues, so we encourage teachers to use it in class.

The Game: Your mission is to help the head of the family turns this developing nation farm into a commercial success. You must carefully budget and decide which crops to grow each year to survive. There are several crops to choose from (corn, wheat, cotton and peanuts), and some prove more risky than others, providing potentially large earnings or huge losses. Make enough money to invest in the necessary tools such as ploughs, harvesters and tractors to improve your crop yields. Increase your capital by investing wisely in essential buildings such as sheds, wells and barns. But remember, all investments have risks: wells can dry up, barns can be destroyed and livestock can be stolen. Do not get too greedy! You must prioritise your family's health first, or they may weaken and be struck down by a deadly disease!

Now play the online Game at http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/About.html