Games and Engagement

Engagement through Collaboration

• 5 Go-To Games for Teaching Kids Cooperation​ https://www.curiousworld.com/blog/games-for-teaching-cooperation
• 8 Fun Ways to Help Your Students Collaborate in the Classroom https://www.weareteachers.com/8-fun-ways-to-help-your-students-collaborate-in-the-classroom/
• 8 Awesome Cooperative Learning Games https://www.teachhub.com/classroom-activities/2012/11/6-awesome-cooperative-classroom-games/
• 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/10-team-building-games-that-promote-critical-thinking/
• 28 Awesome Team-Building Games and Activities for Kids https://www.weareteachers.com/team-building-games-and-activities/
• 30 Digital Collaboration Tools for Students https://www.teachthought.com/technology/12-tech-tools-for-student-to-student-digital-collaboration/

Engagement through Competition

• 5 Fun Virtual Classroom Games and Activities https://games4esl.com/virtual-classroom-games-and-activities/
• 25 Virtual Classroom Games and Activities https://www.signupgenius.com/school/virtual-classroom-games-activities.cfm
• 5 Free Sites for Creating Games and Puzzles https://teachersfirst.com/blog/2018/02/5-free-sites-for-creating-games-and-puzzles/
• 35 Fun Competition Games for Kids https://kidactivities.net/35-fun-competition-games-for-kids/
• Activities that Promote Healthy Competition https://blocksrock.com/news-and-learning/activities-that-promote-healthy-competition
• Games, Contests & Puzzles: Entertaining Ideas for Educating Student https://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/general-academic/games-contests-puzzles-entertaining-ideas-educating-students
• Top 10 Classroom Games https://www.quizalize.com/blog/2018/03/02/classroom-games/

Engagement through Creation

• Factile https://www.playfactile.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=Paid%20advertising&gclid=CjwKCAjwnPOEBhA0EiwA609ReQgq8CxQ6SSpfCSdFoWkXxRPUSgQ9Y020TSaCygRFZ7xNoAXD3BcWRoCo0YQAvD_BwE
• Game Builder​ https://www.wisc-online.com/gamebuilder
• Game Making and Design Tools https://educators.brainpop.com/student-made-games-2-game-making/
• Game-Making Tools for Schools https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/game-making-tools-for-schools
• Gamify Your Classroom https://www.smore.com/11t9w-gamify-your-classroom
• Gamilab https://gamilab.com/​

Incorporating Games into Text Sets to Support Engaged Literacy Learning

Text Set to Support Grammar Development in Elementary Classrooms
Books:
●      Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? by Brian Cleary
●      A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns by Brian Cleary
●      Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? by Brian Cleary
●      If You Were an Adjective by Michael Dahl
●      If You Were an Apostrophe by Shelly Lyons
●      It’s Hard to be a Verb! by Julia Cook
●      Kites Sail High: A Book about Verbs by Ruth Heller
●      Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver
●      Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver

Games and Activities:
●      7 Interactive ELA Games for Your Digital Classroom https://www.differentiatedteaching.com/interactive-language-arts-games-digital-learning/
●      ABCya! https://www.abcya.com/
●      ELA Games https://www.education.com/games/ela/
●      IXL Language Arts
●      https://www.ixl.com/ela/topics?partner=google&campaign=179162875&adGroup=9418046035&gclid=CjwKCAjwnPOEBhA0EiwA609ReaYmLGVTmZHJxhT_Z5NIyIpkCM5EzpAkpBycQPKqzTsDrO5Bq99FHxoCkmIQAvD_BwE
●      Language Arts Games https://mrnussbaum.com/games/language-arts-games

Text Set to Support the Study of Science Habitats in Elementary Classrooms
Books:
●      Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bush
●      Ecology: The Study of Ecosystems by Susan Gray
●      In the Desert by Alex Ives
●      Life in the Ocean by Claire Nivola
●      Little Fox in the Forest by Stephanie Graegin
●      My Home in the Rainforest by J. Patrick Lewis
●      Who Lives in the Arctic? by Susan Canizares and Pamela Chanko
●      Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry? by Dr. Seuss

Games and Activities:
●      Animal Habitats: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/animal-habitats/
●      Exploring Habitats: https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson-plans/exploring-habitats
●      Habitat: Games https://sciencetrek.org/sciencetrek/topics/habitat/games.cfm
●      Habitats https://www.educatall.com/page/1030/Habitats.html
●      Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game https://www.education.com/activity/article/Animal_Habitat_Game/
●      Wild Kratts: https://pbskids.org/wildkratts/games/