The internet offers a great many tempting distractions for kids you'd
wish were using that computer to do their homework. Especially
networking sites such as Facebook and online gaming platforms seem to be
a time consuming and highly addictive pastime. But the internet can
also be incredibly helpful when it comes to doing research for essays,
finding books and other resources, etc. Educational programs in schools
are also using a more playful ways of teaching and posing questions,
and similarly online games can be - and are - used for educational
purposes as well.
For instance,
Games.co.za has, in cooperation with
loveLife.org.za,
set up a page full of informative quizzes, role-playing, and other
sorts of
games
about HIV/AIDS awareness. And there are many more opportunities to
create online games that are educational and engage learners. At
Games.co.za we have sections with fun geography games, where you can
study all kinds of
world
maps and answer questions about them, chemistry games in which you
can study and learn the
periodic table
of elements by heart, challenging games in which your spelling
skills are tested, and even literature-related games such as puzzles
based on the novels of Jules Verne, or the NES version of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby, which every school pupil and
student who has read or is reading the novel will get a huge kick out
of.
These are just a couple of examples of how fun education games,
games that are just as engaging and addictive as any other internet
flash game, can be informative and rewarding at the same time, and may
even help when it comes to passing that difficult topography test, or
cramming facts for that chemistry exam. So head over to
Games.co.za and check out
our topography page, our chemistry page, and more!
