The back to school season brings new students, routines, and responsibilities. While exciting, it can also feel overwhelming—especially if you’re trying to set up your classroom, communicate with families, and plan engaging lessons, all at once.

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1. Classroom Setup & Organization

Creating an efficient, welcoming environment from the start sets the tone for your entire year.

Use this mini-checklist to get started:

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2. Supplies & Student Materials

Avoid last-minute chaos by taking stock of your supplies early.

Checklist:

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3. Classroom Decor

Your classroom should reflect your teaching style and make students feel inspired.

Ideas for easy decor wins:

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4. Parent & Family Communication

Strong communication early on builds trust and sets expectations.

To-do list:

• Draft your welcome letter or email
• Prepare a simple classroom newsletter template
• Set up tech tools (Remind, email lists, folders for notes sent home)
• Create a contact log to track conversations or important updates
• Have important forms and permission slips ready for Day 1

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5. Back to School: First Week Planning

Getting your first week planned helps reduce stress and gives you more energy to build classroom culture.

Suggestions:

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💡 Bonus Tip: Don’t Forget Yourself

The start of the year is intense. Make space to take care of you.

Try this:

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Want all these steps in one simple, ready-to-use format?

Grab your free printable Back-to-School Teacher Checklist here:

👉 Download the Checklist PDF

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Final Thoughts

Back-to-school doesn’t have to mean burnout. With a little planning and the right tools, you can start the year feeling prepared, inspired, and excited for what’s ahead.

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Hi Legends! January has brought another exciting update from our Learning Universe!

We’re thrilled to introduce you to the latest additions to our ever-expanding array of Math games, designed to engage while enhancing your students’ test scores. If you missed last month’s new games you can take a look at the December update here.

New Math Games Releases in January

Get ready to engage your students with exciting new adventures and hands-on learning experiences.

Grades K-2

• Earthbound Expedition: Counting Coals: Join Victor in his travels around the world to collect and gather sequentially magical coals!
• Mathfriends: Use your skills of adding and subtracting to fulfill your daily tasks on the farm! 
• Adventure of Tito: Travel across space with Tito to get the Magical Lake’s water to save the life on Planet Alto! 

Grades 3-5

• Catrina Rounding Pinball: Play pinball, collect flowers, and create a traditional altar while learning more about rounding numbers.
• Ninja Kite: The Multiplicator Moose: Join Kenzo on his run, collect coins, and summon the Multiplicator Moose to learn more about multiplication.
• Ninja Kite: The Fraction Falcon: Join Kenzo on his run, collect coins, and summon the Fraction Falcon to learn how to compare fractions and solve them.
• THE YOUNG WIZARD: Magic Class is about to start! Learn how to invoke spells using geometric shapes such as squares, rectangles, and triangles.

Grades 6-8

• The Wondering Vagabond: Division of Fractions: Apply your knowledge of fractions to make magic potions!
• Ratio Ruins: Explore the ruins and solve the Sphinx’s riddles to find the great treasure while learning more about ratios and proportions.

Featured Games in January 2025

Earthbound Expedition: Counting Coals — Elementary Math Game

Game Description:

Earthbound Expedition: Counting Coals is an educational puzzle game where players guide Victor, a skilled miner, through a magical underground world to collect numbered coals in sequential order.

Across 10 progressively challenging levels, players must navigate rows and columns of coals, avoiding unmarked or out-of-order ones that trigger advancing coal stacks.

Equipped with five magical pickaxe power-ups, Victor clears obstacles and ensures a smooth path as players learn number sequences from 1 to 120.

With its vibrant stylized art, engaging gameplay, and strategic challenges, the game offers an adventurous way to master numbers while uncovering the hidden magic of the mines.

Mathfriends — Elementary Math Game

Game Description:

The Mathfriends are peaceful and respectful of their environment. They are very playful and love to challenge themselves in this agricultural universe.

Through three levels set in an imaginary and magical world, you will have to help the Mathfriends take care of the animals by responding to the many challenges they will throw at you.

Players will have to solve the different additions or subtractions with a result under a thousand by going through the levels. The hundreds, tens, and units will be represented in a very fun way to facilitate the understanding of additions and subtractions (Choose animals or select eggs), On an adventure and have fun!

Catrina Rounding Pinball — Middle Math Game

Game Description:

Students help Catrina build the altar for her loved ones by completing fun rounding challenges in this pinball-like adventure.

Collect flowers in the pinball section and Catrina will trade them for skull candies to buy the items for the altar!

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Keep an eye out for more exciting updates! Our games help you meet students where they are, taking the weight off your shoulders. With these tools at your fingertips, you can spend more time on what matters most: connecting with your students and guiding their growth.

New to Legends of Learning?
Sign up now and embark on an educational adventure! With our platform, you’ll have a treasure trove of standard-aligned games, detailed analytics, and resources to efficiently reinforce concepts, differentiate instruction, and boost your students’ confidence.

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Don’t miss the chance to earn Rewards Points by leaving teacher reviews! Your insights help other educators choose the right games and empower us to create even better content. By sharing your feedback, you’re shaping the future of classroom learning and making the journey more rewarding for everyone.

Have questions? Reach out to us at support@legendsoflearning.com

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• Teachers’ Back to School Checklist for 2025
• Science Games to Explore This Summer & Back-to-School Season
• Math Games to Explore This Summer & Back-to-School Season
• Make It Bloom: New Science Games in May 2025
• Make It Bloom: New Math Games in May 2025

Hi Legends! Check out our new science games in September 2024. Another exciting update to our engaging and rigorous Learning Universe!

We’re happy to introduce you to the latest additions to our classroom games, designed to enhance students’ test scores.

Have you missed the last month’s update? Look at all the new science games launched in August here.

New Science Games in September 2024 🧪

Get ready to engage your students with exciting new adventures and hands-on learning experiences.

Grades K-2

• Plantopia: Plant apples, carrots, and sunflower seeds to see how sunlight helps them!

Grades 3-5

• Eco Defender – Protector of the Spheres: Embark on a mission to space while learning the elements of the atmosphere, geosphere,  hydrosphere, and biosphere. 
• Eureka! – Synthesizer: Join Nicola Tesla 2.0 and learn how technology is here to help us!
• Eureka! – New Dawn: Point-and-click through the game to explore how animals are in the same group but have different characteristics/traits.
• The Candy Factory: Use strong elves to keep running the candy factory using the basic concepts of forces and motion! 

Grades 6-8

• Bear’s Life: Changes in Ecosystems: You’ll experience the challenges like a bear to learn how the changes in ecosystems affect living organisms. 
• Tourists From Outer Space: Learn the patterns and movement of stars by showing clients the human sky on holidays and specific seasons! 
• Eureka! – Black Flag: Explore the biodiversity of our world in this pirate adventure!
• Climate Match: The Greenhouse Effect: Solve funny match problems to understand how the greenhouse effect impacts Earth and living organisms.
• Moonlit Harmony – The Lunar Phases: You’re a bright apprentice and your task is to dominate the lunar cycle!
• Galactic Greenhouse: Use your knowledge of the flow of temperature to grow plants in space!

A Closer Look at Featured Games

Eco Defender – Protector of the Spheres — Elementary Science 

Players explore Earth’s vital systems – Geosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Hydrosphere – while tackling real-world challenges:

• Combat pollution and manage water resources
• Deploy eco-tools like shrubs, filters, and biopesticides
• Collaborate with virtual experts to design sustainable solutions

Through hands-on problem-solving, students:

• Apply scientific concepts to environmental issues
• Develop critical thinking and teamwork skills
• Gain a deeper understanding of Earth’s delicate balance

Eco Defender seamlessly blends engaging gameplay with curriculum-aligned content, transforming passive learners into active environmental stewards.

Eureka! – Synthesizer – Elementary Science

Key Features:

• Fantasy-themed narrative brings abstract concepts to life
• Interactive experiments with various wave types
• Puzzle-solving challenges that reinforce learning
• Exploration of real-world applications (smartphones, TVs)

Students will:

• Grasp fundamental concepts of light energy and optics
• Understand the basics of wireless communication
• Discover how digital devices process and transmit information

Eureka! Synthesizer transforms complex physics into an accessible adventure, seamlessly blending curriculum-aligned content with captivating gameplay. Watch as your students evolve from curious observers to confident tech explorers!

Bear’s Life: Changes in Ecosystems – Middle Science

Key Features:

• Dynamic, evolving environments mimic real ecosystems
• Engaging quests: berry gathering, fish catching, disaster survival
• Seamless integration of core scientific concepts into gameplay

Students will learn:

• Primary and secondary succession in action
• Biotic and abiotic factors shaping environments
• Human impact on natural habitats

Through a perfect blend of exploration and problem-solving, “Bear’s Life” turns young learners into ecosystem experts. Watch as abstract textbook concepts come alive in this interactive wilderness adventure!

Have you missed last month’s new games? Take a look at August’s update here! And don’t forget to keep an eye out for more exciting game updates coming your way soon.

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• Science Games to Explore This Summer & Back-to-School Season
• Math Games to Explore This Summer & Back-to-School Season
• Make It Bloom: New Science Games in May 2025
• Make It Bloom: New Math Games in May 2025

If you are on Twitter and you like game based learning (GBL), you’re in for a treat. Starting on Monday, April 2nd at 8pm ET, we’re launching our monthly Twitter chat, #LegendaryChat!

Taking over the Twitter account that night will be Legendary ambassador Amanda Glover (she’s also on Twitter and has her own EdTech blog). Get in on the conversation simply by using the hashtag #LegendaryChat.

For the inaugural #LegendaryChat, our topic will be Intro to Game-Based Learning. This chat is ideal for educators from all over the GBL spectrum, from classroom gaming experts to interested teachers who have never used game-based learning at all.

Participants will learn:

• The benefits of bringing GBL to the classroom
• Challenges faced by teachers who use GBL, and how to overcome them
• Strategies for making GBL as effective as possible for students

In the meantime, there are tons of other education-related Twitter chats you can check out! Here are some of our favorites:

Ongoing chats:

• #scichat: Exactly what it sounds like. Chat with other educators about all things science!
• #elemchat: Anything and everything related to elementary education! This one is new for us, since we’ve just released our first few games for grades 3-5.

Weekly chats:

• #XPLAP: Stands for Explore Like a Pirate. Yep, that’s a thing. Tuesdays at 10pm ET.
• #games4ed: A Twitter chat all about gaming in education! Thursdays at 8pm ET (though we like to check out this hashtag all week long).

Do you have another Twitter chat that you love? Let us know in the comments section.

Save the date and spread the word about #LegendaryChat on Monday, April 2nd. We can’t wait to see you online! And don’t forget to follow us at @legendlearning.

The 74 wrote recently that America will fall one million STEM workers short of its needed workforce by 2022. Think about that, one million potential jobs await today’s students.

That’s an astounding number. The solutions to date are missing the mark, say authors Blair Blackwell and Talia Milgrom-Elcott. Rather than focusing on today’s primary and middle school students and encouraging degrees in science, most STEM programs today focus on retraining existing workforce members.

The 74 article focuses on an initiative called 100k in 10, an effort to train 100,000 “excellent” STEM-savvy teachers. Solutions lock in on partners who execute training and grand challenges. But what grabbed our attention was an article that posed the counterpoint, “It seems like no one is asking classroom teachers what would be most helpful.”

In our experience, the science teachers we work with want to engage students and make STEM an exciting topic for them. Creating one million STEM Workers may be a question of the chicken versus the egg: Is it the science teacher or the tools? More often than not, building a stronger STEM curriculum requires training, resources, and time.

STEM Workers or STEM Warriors?

Inspiring children to enjoy science requires more than the promise of a job. We think that telling students they can get a high paying job if they focus on science won’t be enough. It’s like telling someone they can have perfect teeth if they brush and floss their teeth twice a day.

We agree with the increasingly prevalent philosophies that educators need to 1) make science and STEM fun as a whole and 2) connect it to students’ everyday lives. Children will gravitate to STEM careers when they see it as a means to accomplish their dreams. Then they will become impassioned STEM warriors, rather than someone simply looking for a job.

Making science fun for students remains one of our greatest hopes inside Legends of Learning. If we can provide that spark for a student in a classroom, then we think we’ve achieved our purpose.

The Great STEM Education Challenge

The challenge remains increasing science’s appeal to students on their terms. That’s why we’re dedicated to creating a meaningful game-based learning experience for students. This provides a powerful resource for teachers who are looking to inject a little more fun into students’ lives.

There are countless science teachers across America who feel the same way. They work hard to inspire students every day. Their efforts extend well beyond the classroom, too. Science teachers scour the Internet looking for new exercises in their spare time. They actively seek out extra training. They engage with their peers online and at events to learn from others’ experiences.

Empowering science teachers to succeed remains the challenge. This challenge varies greatly from district to district, school to school, as noted by the 100k in 10 project. But providing universally accessible tools via the Internet can help level the playing field.

Teachers like you are constantly searching for new science resources and content to diversify their lessons and engage students.

Browsing the internet is a great way to find science resources, but with so much content available, it’s easy to spend hours searching. In fact, some teachers dedicate five to seven hours a week just to finding the right materials.

If you’re looking for more than just games, start your search here. These seven curated sites can help streamline the process and guide you to quality resources faster.

1) Share My Lesson

Share My Lesson is a fantastic database of science resources, featuring lessons from early childhood through high school. As the name implies, teachers log on and share their own lessons and resources. To date, those total more than 420,000, including more than 11,000 for middle school science alone! They’re all free, and searchable by grade and standards.

2) Teachers Pay Teachers

You’ve probably heard of Teachers Pay Teachers by now. Much like Share My Lesson, TpT hosts lessons crowdsourced from educators. Boasting an even bigger library of more than 2.8m resources, some free and some paid, it’s a fantastic tool for bringing together the genius of teachers everywhere. When you’re searching, you can sort by grade, subject, resource type, and price, or check out the trending topics on their homepage.

3) University of Cincinnati Libraries

The UC Libraries STEM Education page links to a bunch of juicy STEM content across the web. These include science websites, lesson plan libraries, student research databases, educational videos, curriculum resources, and much more. Dig into this wealth of material, vetted by a major research university.

4) Teaching Ideas

Teaching Ideas is a British site that lists an eye-popping amount of resources for teachers. Along with science, teachers can find inspiration for English, “maths” , computing, art, music, history, PE, you name it — so go ahead and share it with your non-science colleagues! If you’re looking for lesson plans, projects, videos, or games, it’s all here, with a search functionality and many levels of filtering.

5) Tes

Tes is an education giant, claiming “the world’s largest online community of teachers” with almost 8 million registered users. Like Share My Lesson and TpT, Tes hosts a marketplace where teachers can share all kinds of resources, free and paid, from pre-K through high school. Their marketplace also features a bunch of discussion forums, as well as resources for exploring the teacher job market (focused on the UK). They also publish a magazine, and publish tons of education-related news. Talk about a go-to education site!

6) Legends of Learning Science Games

Legends of Learning is an award-winning game-based learning platform designed to boost student engagement and improve test scores through interactive, curriculum-aligned science games. With a library of over 2,000 expertly crafted games, teachers can seamlessly integrate engaging, standards-aligned content into their lessons—whether in the classroom or at home.

Every game on the platform is carefully selected based on user reviews and educational value, ensuring a balance of fun and learning. Designed to captivate students, support teachers, and empower districts, these games make science more accessible and enjoyable.

Ready to explore the best of the best? Here are 10 top-rated science games that combine immersive gameplay with real learning outcomes, helping students grasp complex scientific concepts while having fun!

7) Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

Out of the University of British Columbia, CWSEI mainly focuses on research related to science pedagogy in higher education. However, their site lists a wide variety of resources, including tools that can be used in the classroom, but also a plethora of reference books and articles for everything you want to learn about education. The Initiative’s stated goal is to build “a more scientifically literate populace… able to make wise decisions, informed by scientific understanding, about other complex issues” — a mission we can all get behind!

If you’re looking for new science resources, this list is a good place to start. These websites complement the depth and breadth of the thousands of science games and assessment items teachers find on the Legends of Learning platform.

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Don’t miss out on our latest posts!

• Teachers’ Back to School Checklist for 2025
• Science Games to Explore This Summer & Back-to-School Season
• Math Games to Explore This Summer & Back-to-School Season
• Make It Bloom: New Science Games in May 2025
• Make It Bloom: New Math Games in May 2025

This November’s STEM Visions Contest featured submissions from teachers across the country, from California to Oklahoma to Massachusetts. All of the entries demonstrated how much these legendary science teachers inspire their students on a daily basis.

The contest was an overarching STEM activity for students. Teachers launched playlists of Legends of Learning science games in class, then asked how students could see themselves pursuing a career in STEM fields. Entries were posted on Facebook (and some on Google Docs).

Students wowed us with their visions for the future. The most popular ideas for future STEM careers were in the fields of veterinary science, astronomy, marine biology, and engineering.

The Winners

With so many thoughtful, creative entries, it was difficult to select the winners. Ultimately, after much deliberation, we had a winning submission: Kimberly King from Green Fields School (Tucson, AZ)! Kimberly submitted 21 students’ STEM visions, showcasing an impressive array of ideas they have for how to impact the world in their future careers. View her entire album of submissions here.

 

For winning the contest, Kimberly will receive a $1000 grant on DonorsChoose.org, along with a full-year license for her school to use Legends of Learning!

Four more of the most impressive submissions were selected as runners-up. View their submissions by clicking the links below:

Veronica Hennessey, Simonds Elementary (San José, CA)
Joy Johnson, Lewis and Clarke Middle School (Jefferson City, MO)
Denise Galiano, Cedar Hill Preparatory School (Somerset,NJ)
Scott Beiter, Rensselaer Middle School (Rensselaer, NY)

Congratulations to our winner, Kimberly, our runners-up, Veronica, Joy, Denise, and Scott, and all of the amazing educators who entered the contest! More importantly, thank you to all of these teachers for investing in the future by inspiring their students every single day.

Many of our ambassadors and friends in the education community have followed Legends of Learning on Facebook and Twitter over the past year, but complained about our lack of presence on Instagram and Pinterest. Well, those days are over!!!

You can now follow us on Instagram and Pinterest, too!

Our Instagram page will feature photo spotlights of our ambassadors, LoL staff, industry events, and case studies, as well as highlighting each of our 90 middle school science learning objectives and updates about our gaming platform.

We will also “regram” legendary posts from our followers, and may even give some teacher ambassadors the opportunity to temporarily take over the page!

On Pinterest, we have boards for Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, Life Science, as well as special topics like NGSS, last month’s total solar eclipse, and awesome inspiration from teachers.

Teachers are some of the best users on Pinterest, “pinning” everything from science labs to art projects to actual bulletin boards. The site provides an easy way to bookmark and spread bright ideas, improving classrooms everywhere.

We are excited to grow our engagement with the education community! The internet is an incredible asset, with the power to not only host resources like Legends of Learning games, but also to share valuable insights and ideas so teachers and students can reap the benefits. Join us in our mission to spread the best of education.

Follow Legends of Learning:

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This year, wow your class with game based learning by creating the perfect Legends of Learning playlist. Much like a DJ, teachers have the ability to deploy their “set list” of games and assessment questions to students. But playlists can do much more than that.

5 Most FAQs About Legends of Learning Playlists

To illustrate the power of this feature, we decided to answer teachers’ five most frequently asked questions.

1. How Can I Make Sure I’m Selecting The Right Games For My Student Playlists?

Selecting the right games based on student interest or academic level is easy with the detailed game modal window. Simply click on any game from within the learning objective screen and the game modal window displays a game overview, teacher ratings, curriculum suggestions, and the option to play the game yourself. When you’ve determined which games are the right fit, click the “Create a Playlist” button and drag the games into your new playlist.

2. How Do I Customize My Playlists?

There are several ways to customize playlists for your students. First, name each playlist and add it to your saved playlists section for future use. Next, try dragging games into your playlist and then moving the games around by clicking and dragging. Finally, use the time slider to shorten or lengthen the amount of time students can play.

Customizable Playlist: Name It, Rearrange It, Time It

3. How Do I Launch My Playlists To Students?

When you launch playlists to your students, you give them an engaging gameplay experience while following their progress in real time on your live teacher dashboard. You can even launch different games to different student groups and create a personalized gaming experience while ensuring they all master the same content.

Launch to Everyone

To get started, locate the dropdown menu under each playlist, which gives you the option to launch to everyone or to a specific group. To create a class or group, navigate to the students page and click the “+” button next to the word “class”. Type in the name of your class or group and press save. You can then click the dropdown next to each student and add them to their group.

Create Your Class

Click the back button on your browser to return to your playlist. The names of your classes and groups will appear in the dropdown menu at the bottom of the playlist. When you launch your playlist to a specific group, only the students in that group will have access to the playlist.

Launch to a Class/Group

4. How Do I Know Students Will Be Asked Questions During Game Play?

Assessment packs are valuable if you are playing games that are activity based and contain few questions. Click on the assessment icon next to the game list to add assessment packs to your playlist.

Assessment Pack Icon

You can control the number of questions in each assessment—from 1 to 99—by clicking the arrows. Then, click and drag to place the assessment pack before, between, or after the games. Use multiple assessment packs and create a pre-test/post-test to gauge student mastery.

Assessment Pack as Pre-Test/Post-Test

5. How Do My Students Sign In & Start Playing?

Students sign in to your playlist by navigating to login.legendsoflearning.com and clicking the students icon. Students are then prompted to enter your teacher launch code, located in the upper right hand corner of your playlist.

Teacher Launch Code

Students sign up using their first name and last initial, or sign in with their previously created username.

Student Login Page

Once you launch your playlist, each student’s dot appears in your live teacher dashboard. Individual student answers to game and assessment pack questions are recorded inside student dots.

Live Dashboard with Student Signed In

Create Your Perfect Playlist Today!

Legends of Learning strongly values the feedback of teachers and welcomes any questions you have on our playlist feature. Login today to create your perfect playlist. Have a great summer and happy gaming!

The new playlist feature from Legends of Learning gives teachers the ability to deliver engaging science games while closely monitoring student achievement and growth. Here are five reasons to use playlists in your class this coming year:

1) Real-Time Data Dashboard – The live teacher dashboard displays student progress in real time. Each student has a dot that moves along the playlist and shows their answers to the questions from the games.

Once the playlist is over, the data is automatically stored in your account. Since every playlist is saved, you can see how student and class performance improves over time.

2) Differentiated Playlists – Creating multiple playlists allows your classroom to divide into cohorts based on academic performance and play the games most appropriate for their academic level. For example, you can create three different playlists for your advanced, proficient, and basic students, or even create a unique playlist for every student in the class. Unlimited playlist creation makes personalizing content easy.

3) Total Teacher Control – Three features give you control of the gaming experience:

• Playlist length – You can set the timer for 3-60 minutes of game play. If you want to shorten the playlist in live mode, click the stop button and every student’s game will end.
• Dot Color – Dots turn red if your students stop playing and wander into a different tab. This makes it easy for you to know who is actively engaged in game play.
• Pause Button – In live mode you can pause all students simultaneously. This ensures you have every student’s attention while you teach.

4) Student Voice – If you offer students Free Play, they can choose which games to play within the current lesson’s learning objective. There are two ways to deploy Free Play:

1) Launch a playlist with extra time built in after the games are completed. When the students finish their assigned games, they can pick which games to play with any remaining class time.

2) Free Play occurs when you launch an “empty” playlist with no games in it. In that case, students can choose whichever games they want throughout the time period.

Free Play Option 1

Free Play Option 2

5) Scheduling Playlists – This soon-to-be-deployed feature will allow you to schedule a playlist to deploy automatically at any time. For example, on Monday you could set a playlist to launch on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m., or on Friday you could set a playlist to launch at 2:00 p.m. and end Sunday night at 7:00 p.m.

This feature lets teachers deploy playlists for homework, or provide substitute teachers playlists as an assignment.

As you think about ways to introduce game-based learning in your classroom this coming year, consider using playlists from Legends of Learning. With all the features playlists offer, you can be confident that fun will translate into real academic growth. Sign up and start creating your playlists today!