| Gaming in the Library |
Games frequently come with sounds that may distract your fellow students. Please remember to mute the sound before opening the game. How well do you know your world? Scroll down to the bottom of the page to select the area of the world you wish to be quizzed on. See how far you can get in this geography IQ challenge. Placefy is a fun and challenging geography game that uses pictures as questions. Do you know your License Plates? STATE THAT PLATE challenges you to the game you grew up playing in the car! Can you PLACE THAT STATE?? Challenge yourself at Beginner, Intermediate or Expert and see if you rank among the best geographers in the land! Swim with the sharks and experience the threats they face, striving to keep the ocean in balance by staying alive. Taking it Global includes a game based on the flags of the world which asks students to match flags to their respective countries. After matching each flag to its country students can click the "learn more" link to find more information about that country.
This super popular vocabulary game that donates rice for every correct answer, has added a bunch of new categories. You can now play the game with vocabulary terms and identification questions from the areas of art, chemistry, foreign languages, math, and geography. Darfur is Dying is a viral video game for change that provides a window into the experience of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan. Players must keep their refugee camp functioning in the face of possible attack by Janjaweed militias. Players can also learn more about the genocide in Darfur that has taken the lives of 400,000 people, and find ways to get involved to help stop this human rights and humanitarian crisis. Tempest is a side-scrolling platform game set in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster of 2005. The game's main character is Vivica Water, a young woman from New Orleans who moved to New York after surviving the storm. The game takes place in a dream Vivica has where she searches for her mother and helps her neighbors as the hero she wishes she could have been. Our Courts' games: Do I Have A Right?, Supreme Decision or Argument Wars. In Do I Have a Right?, you run a law firm and must give advice to your clients using the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In Argument Wars, you debate historical Supreme Court cases by advancing arguments and backing them up with supports. Play New Jersey v. T.L.O., Brown v. Board of Education, or Gideon v. Wainwright today! Coming soon: Texas v. Johnson, Miranda v. Arizona and more!
In Supreme Decision, you play a clerk to a justice of the Supreme Court and help decide about a student's rights in school. Team up with other players around the globe to solve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration challenge puzzle. This is a simple map game. These games require shockwave so if the computer you are using doesn’t have it installed, the game will not work. Educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more. ce University has partnered with CBS, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the Nat ional Science Foundation to produce web adventures based on the CSI television series. The web adventures are designed to teach students the process of forensic investigation and problem solving. There are three cases or levels to the CSI web adventures. Unlike a lot of educational games, the CSI Web Adventures are created with the highest quality graphics and navigational features. There are almost 900 games on this site. Some of them are educational; others are not. Please exercise judgement as to what is educational. If you cannot make wise decisions, the library staff will make the determination for you. Games like The Simpson Characters, Disney Princesses, Pokemon, and Film Stars are definitely NOT okay.
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