According to educational nonprofit EDUCAUSE, a growing body of research shows game-based learning platforms “can create an engaging dynamic that inspires students to develop competencies and skills as they focus on the activities of the game.”
Below, we’ve organized some of the best educational games for kids by subject! Interested in games for a certain subject? Click one below and jump right to it:
1. PBS Kids
Great games and video shows for kids. Play games with your PBS KIDS favorites like Curious George, Wild Kratts, Daniel Tiger and Peg + Cat! PBS kids is very popular in the United States of America.
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2. Education.com
These teacher designed kindergarten games will engage your little learners with delightfully animated characters and exciting challenges as they explore letters of the alphabet, counting numbers, matching shapes, and much more.
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3. Nick Jr. Games
Kids can watch videos, play games, and interact with their Nick Jr. friends on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Plus, preschoolers will discover educational and silly surprises as they learn and explore.
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4. Cookie.com
This is a very useful site. By playing games and watching videos kids can learn things easily.
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5. Sesame Street
Younger children will love everything about Sesame Street’s online home. They can choose from hundreds of the show’s video clips and play games that help them learn letters, animal sounds, rhymes, colors, and more.
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6. CookMath4Kids
For 12 and under children, Coolmath4Kids is an amusement park of games, lessons and more, designed to teach math and make it FUN.
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7. National Geographic Kids
Watch animal cameras, learn interesting tidbits about animals, see and share photos of nature, learn about different countries and try science experiments on Kids.NationalGeographic.com. These activities don’t even begin to scratch the surface of the National Geographic Kids website. There’s also a “Little Kids” section for the younger explorers in your home.
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8. Fun Brain
One visit to Fun Brain and you’ll want to bookmark it for your kids. Math, reading, online books and learning games are just some of the site’s many treats. Fun Brain caters to preschoolers through 8th graders.
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9. Highlights for Kids
The magazine for kids that’s been around for more than 60 years now offers online ways to play, read and craft with your children. Matching games, art activities, animated stories and science experiments are just a few ways kids can learn while having fun on the Highlights for Kids website.
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10. Disney Jr.
Fans of Mickey and friends will love visiting Disney Jr. Educational. Games, coloring pages, and videos are a few of the highlights. The games focus on memory, hand-eye coordination, color matching and other important skills for developing minds.
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11. Arcademic Skill Builders
Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Arcademic games challenge students to improve their scores through repetitive, timed learning drills that provide immediate feedback.
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12. Smarty Games
SmartyGames is a free educational website for kids. It features fun math games, mazes, puzzles, coloring pages, animated flashcards and online children books.
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13. SplashLearn (StudyPad)
StudyPad’s vision is to transform K-12 learning by making it fun and personalized for every child and to prepare them for skills required in 21st-century. StudyPad is uniquely poised to harness the rapid growth in the education technology space using the backdrop of the ubiquitous adoption of smartphones, tablets, AR and VR.
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14. Mr. Nussbaum
Created by Greg Nussbaum, a Virginia public school teacher, Mr. Nussbaum boasts over 3,500 content pages with a wide variety of learning games organized by content type and grade level. This site is also optimized for use on a tablet and an interactive whiteboard.
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15. Poptropica
Under the creative direction of Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Poptropica® is a virtual world in which kids explore and play in complete safety. Every month, millions of kids from around the world are entertained and informed by Poptropica’s engaging quests, stories, and games.
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16. ABCYa.com
This game site offers teacher-created and approved educational computer games for elementary students to learn math and language arts on the web. Featured by The New York Times, Apple, and Fox News, ABCYa.com provides young children well-crafted games and activities.
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17. Sheppard Software
Headed by Brad Sheppard, Sheppard Software hosts hundreds of free, online, educational games for kids. The site organizes its games into categories, which allow students and teachers to easily navigate by subject area and find a suitable game that caters to either an instructional need or a child’s sense of curiosity and thirst of knowledge and challenge.
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18. Tate Kids
Tate is a family of four art galleries in London, Liverpool, and Cornwall. Its children-focused project, Tate Kids, lets children play free art-related games and quizzes, get help on art homework, and share their creations!
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In partnership with E-Line Media and the Institute of Play, Gamestar Mechanic is an online game and community with the sole aim of helping children learn the guiding principles of game design in a highly engaging environment. There are three components to Gamestar Mechanic: Play, Design, and Share.
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20. Animal Jam
Animal Jam is an online virtual world originally created in collaboration with the National Geographic Society. It teaches kids about zoology and ecology with games, adventures, and parties and online social elements. With 160 million registered users, this is one of the largest virtual worlds for kids. If the online play gives you pause, know that the parental controls are pretty good, allowing you to lock down the game if you desire.
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21. Prodigy
This math-based role-playing game is free to play. Kids proceed through the game by answering skill-building math questions to earn rewards. There’s an interactive element, too; they can go on quests with friends. The difficulty levels increase as your kids make progress in the game.
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22. BBC Schools: GamesThe British counterpart of our PBS, the BBC, offers interactive digital games and activities involving subjects such as literacy, numeracy, history, mathematics, music, and the arts. The games are also categorized into age ranges. The cartoon graphics are very appealing for children, but the content is stellar for teachers and parents that want children to play to learn.
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