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Virtual worlds and gaming environments:

Increasingly, educators are beginning to realize what the military and health fields have already found: that placing students in virtual worlds and letting them interact in real time is a powerful way to teach concepts and language.

• BBC English: free, and accompanying games- KS2Bitesize such as Gut Instinct, KS1Bitesize Games, Wild, Mia Cadaver's Tombstone, etc.
• Business: JohnnyMoneyOnline is free and designed to let students know what it's like to start & operate a business
• The British Museum's online games free, with many games to teach about history
• Carbon Lifestyles: from the British science museum - addresses our carbon footprint
• Environmental Intelligence Unit is a free virtual game about the environment, in which players are sent on missions to respond to environmental problems.
• FreePoverty donates water for each correct response to this free geography quiz
• FreeRice: free-donates food the world food bank for vocabulary words correctly defined
• GamesParentsTeachers: a site dedicated to gaming & kids
• Launchball: free-from the London Science museum teaches applied physics through games
• Math: free - Dr. Villainy#1 , Dr.Villainy#2,
• Muck and Brass free, and looks at the decisions made during the Industrial Revolution in England and its consequences
• Our Courts: free, and the vision of Sandra Day O'Connor. Civics taught through interactivity and engagement.
• Powerupthegame: to teach science, engineering, & environmental science
• Quest Atlantis for ages 9-15: literacy, problem-solving, and online collaboration in a virtual world
• RezEd is a online community dedicated to sharing information and techiques for learning in virtual worlds. It's a great place for online tutorials, videos, and idea-sharing
• River City Project : an online virtual environment in which players try to save a town from environmental disaster.
• Schoolgamemaker: programming tools for kids and info how to use Gamemaker
• Second Life: Free to join: a virtual world in which your avatar can fly to many islands in order to learn a continually expanding variety of things, including many various languages. Meet your virtual friends in real time.
• Social Impact Games: a source to find virtual environments and games in which the primary goal is to educate
• A walk in the forest: accompanied by virtual scientists from the Smithsonian, learn about science and forest ecology
• Wordmaster: free vocabulary game by the BBC