First Website Link

The first website I've found which could be very useful in a classroom is a game called "Fling the Teacher".

In this game, students get a chance to answer questions (with four possible answers, a-d) about a particular topic. They first get to pick a "victim" and dress them up with hilarious features, such as really crazy hair or teeth. When they get a question right, they build up a medieval times catapult piece by piece. If they are able to get all the questions right, the catapult is completely built and they are able to literally fling the cartoon character they created.

There could be many curriculum links for this site. Although it is a site based out of the UK, there are still topics that can relate to our learning here in Canada. It does rely mostly on topics relating to Social Studies, such as Grade 6 Social Studies Interaction (it can focus on African peoples as slaves and many cultures within the Atlantic region to do with the World Wars). It could relate to Grade 8 Social Studies on Interdependence as it talks about many revolutionary changes. Lastly, this could even relate to Grade 7 Health if you are learning about HIV/AIDS because there are some games to do with infectious diseases and the Plague, so you could talk about how the immune system is affected, etc.

I would have students use this in possibly three different ways. The first way would be for them to have a period to just play it and see how far they get (using it as a study guide, perhaps) individually. They could also use it in partners to work together and if they don't know the answer to a question, they could take turns looking it up and researching it. Thirdly, if a unit is almost complete, I would even play this game with the whole class on a data projector so we could work together to review what we had learned and have some fun while doing it.

I think this site would improve students' learning because it provides motivation for students to want to play the game and to find/know the correct answers. It is a good tool for the students to use for studying and reviewing content. I think that by incorporating some fun components into an activity, students will have a great time learning what they need to know.
I hope you enjoy this site as much as I did. There are also other games on this site, but keep in mind most of them are to do with Social Studies and history.