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LEARNS Games and Word Activities Resources

Top 100 Learning Game Resources

Active Learning Games

Promoting Active Learning Using Games

CFY's PowerMyLearning.com | Educational Games | Videos | Activities for Elementary, Middle-School and High School Students

Learn Gamer

Tips for Getting Students to Play Games and Learn This Summer
ESL Library Blog

The Monkey Zone - Free e-learning games for students, parents and teachers

Student Games

School Family Games

Language Arts Games

Classroom Games Icebreakers | How Do You Play

My Games and Puzzles Page

My Games in Education Page

My Brain Games Page


Memory List Activity
For each object think of a silly picture with the rhyming word for the number.
For example: If you are given a book as the first one.
Think of a book burned by the sun.

When someone calls out number one think to yourself "sun" and you will recall the book being burned by the sun.

1 - SUN - OBJECT

2 - SHOE - OBJECT

3 - TREE - OBJECT

4 - DOOR - OBJECT

5- HIVE - OBJECT

6 - STICKS - OBJECT

7 - HEAVEN - OBJECT

8- GATE - OBJECT

9- SIGN - OBJECT

10 - PEN - OBJECT


Mnemonic Devices
To help some students who had learning difficulties I would have them make up their own mnemonics for whatever they needed to study. For example I had them use CAM and PIP to remember: Cortez-Aztecs-Mexico and Pizarro-Incas-Peru.


Geography
Great Lakes
HOMES
H
uron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.

Mnemonic device brainstorming for the five oceans!
My fav is "a snowy icicle always plummets"


Colors of the Spectrum
ROY G. BIV
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet.
Biology
Classification of living things
Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Variety.
Astronomy
Order of the planets from the sun
My Very Energetic Mom Just Served Us Nachos.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
(Note: Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet - See Astronomy page)
Acronyms for oxidation and reduction
Oxidation Is Losing Electrons, Reduction Is Gaining Electrons: OIL RIG
Electron Loss Means Oxidation: ELMO
Losing Electrons Oxidation, Gaining Electrons Reduction:
LEO the lion. GER! or LEO says GER
MAIN causes of World War I
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism


Medical Mnemonics

Mnemonic - Store the Content You Want


Math
Math Mnemonics
Math Mnemonics Archive - Education World ®

Memory Techniques

Memory Improvement Techniques from Mind Tools

The Best Mnemonic Devices - Flocabulary

Top 10 Mnemonic Devices for Students


Learning Game Links Online

Fun Brain
Funschool
 Knowledge Adventure
Online Learning Games
Gamequarium
Learning Planet
Quia
Quiz Hub

Top 10 Sites for Educational Games