Recommended Educational Games

Children learn best through play! Try out some of these games as a supplement to your homeschooling.

Math

Basic Math Facts

  • Sum swamp (add to 6)
  • Sums in Space (+/- to 9)
  • Qwixx ( add to 12)
  • Math Room (add to 10)
  • Shut the box (add to 12)
  • Double Shutter (add to 10)
  • Sleeping Queens (equations)
  • Zeus on the Loose (add to 10)
  • Sum fun (equations)
  • Clumsy Thief (add to 100)
  • Sumoku (equations)
  • Yahtzee (add + subtract )
  • Lost cities (multiplication)
  • Math dice chase (multiplication
  • Robin’s eggs (+/- to 20)
  • 4 way count down+ (equations)
  • Secret Code 13+4 (equations)
  • Prime climb (equations)

Other Math Skills

  • Rat-a-tat Cat (greater/less than)
  • Blink (pattern matching)
  • Set (pattern matching)
  • Allowance Game (money)
  • Price is right (money)
  • Money Bags (making change)
  • Lemonade stand (money)
  • Balance beans (weight/mass)
  • Rack-o (number order)
  • Battleship (grid system)
  • Flash Point Fire Rescue (grid system)
  • Rat-a-tat cat (greater/less than)
  • Medieval academy (negative numbers)
  • Skip-bo (number sequencing)

Geography/History

  • Scrambled  states 
  • Ticket to ride 
  • Game of the States 
  • 10 days in the USA
  • Great States
  • Expedition: Famous Explorers – (History, explorers, geography)
  • The Manhattan Project (History, science)
  • 1812 (History, geography)
  • Boxcars (Geography, math)
  • Memoir 44(WWII)
  • Timeline Challenge (History, culture)

Word Games

  • The reading Game
  • Scrabble Alphabet  Soup
  • Letter Tycoon
  • Upwords
  • Scrabble/jr
  • Boggle /jr
  • Pop for letters
  • Sequence letters
  • Zingo sight words
  • Banana grams
  • Quiddler (spelling)
  • Word on the street (spelling)
  • Snake oil (parts of speech)
  • Rory’s story cubes (story telling)
  • Mad libs /jr (parts of speech)

Science

  • Elementeo (chemistry)
  • Contellations
  • Solar quest
  • Compounded  (Chemistry)
  • Lazer maze (physics)
  • Gravity maze (physics)
  • Circuit maze (electricity)
  • Hit the habitat trail
  • Rock on (geology)
  • Fossil On
  • Cranium Zooreka 
  • Oceanos
  • Fauna (animal trivia)
  • Taiga (animals)
  • Into the Forest (food chain)
  • Traveling Animals
  • Cardline Animals
  • Science Explosion 
  • Science Ninjas (chemistry)
  • Totally gross (varied science)
  • Xtronaut (space)

Logic

  • Code Monkey Island (programming)
  • Code Master Programming Logic 
  • Robot Wars 
  • Robot Turtles (programming)
  • Mastermind/Mastermind for Kids (logic)
  • RoboRally (robotics)
  • IQ Twist (logic)
  • Katamino (puzzle game)
  • Logic Links (logic puzzles)