Classroom Tips to Navigate the Holiday Season with Calm and Confidence
December and the Holiday season often come filled with emotion—joy, excitement, but also stress, pressure, fatigue, and anxiety. Between school events and family activities, it’s not uncommon for students to feel overwhelmed.
Also in this blog we’ll explore realistic, classroom-ready strategies designed to help students regulate their emotions, stay focused, and maintain academic confidence during a holiday season that can be as challenging as it is special.
👉 You will learn:
How stress impacts learning and why identifying it early makes all the difference during all the busy holiday season.
Three simple practices to reduce anxiety in the classroom without changing your lesson plan.
Why game-based learning supports emotional regulation and boosts focus.
Quick routines you can implement tomorrow, even with large groups and limited time.
How Stress Impacts Learning
When a student experiences stress, the brain shifts into “survival mode.” This often happens more frequently during the holiday season, when routines are disrupted and excitement levels rise. In this state, key areas such as the prefrontal cortex—responsible for attention, reasoning, and working memory—reduce their activity.
This can show up as:
Decreased ability to concentrate
Difficulty following instructions
Irritability or frustration
Lower information retention
Lack of motivation or disengagement
By recognizing these signs and incorporating short regulation strategies helps students regain the calm and focus they need in order to learn.
Game-based learning does more than boost motivation—it provides a structured environment where students can experience strong emotions such as frustration, excitement, surprise, or joy in a safe and controlled space.
According to recent research, game play supports the development of socio-emotional skills by helping children:
Recognize their emotions
Express them appropriately
Practice frustration tolerance
Develop basic self-regulation strategies
Moreover, games also offer immediate feedback and multiple opportunities to try again, which reduces fear of failure and strengthens a sense of competence. Here are some examples of minigames from our platform that you can implement for free in your classroom this Holiday Season!
Get ready to sharpen your math skills by creating delicious burgers! In this game, you solve math expressions using numbers, operations, and grouping symbols to craft the perfect burger recipe.
Embark on an educational adventure with Angry Birds Decimals, a game designed to sharpen your decimal arithmetic skills!
To access them, sign up for free on Legends of Learning, then search for these games once you’re logged in. You’ll find these and over 2,000 standards-aligned math, science, and US history games to support your students all year long.
➡️ Three Simple Practices to Reduce Anxiety in the Classroom during the Holiday Season
These techniques take little time, don’t disrupt your lesson flow, and can significantly impact student well-being, especially when holiday season stress is at its peak.
1. One-Minute Mindfulness
Mindfulness doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, just 60 seconds of focused attention can help the brain “reset.” Try this:
Invite students to softly close their eyes or lower their gaze.
Guide them: “Inhale for a count of four… exhale for four. Notice how your body feels in the chair…”
Repeat three times.
💡 This brief pause improves self-regulation and reduces accumulated tension.
2. Balloon Breathing
Perfect for younger learners and surprisingly effective for adolescents because it adds a visual element. How to do it:
Ask students to place their hands on their abdomen.
Instruct them to imagine inflating a balloon inside their belly as they inhale.
As they exhale, they “deflate” the balloon slowly.
Continue for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
💡 This practice calms the nervous system and lowers emotional stress, making it a great tool for holiday-season transitions or end-of-day fatigue.
3. Bilateral Doodling
Bilateral doodling activates both hemispheres of the brain, boosts concentration, and quickly reduces anxiety. Moreover, it allows students to soothe their nervous system without needing verbal processing. Simple application:
Give students a blank sheet and two colored markers.
In addition, ask them to draw lines, curves, or free-form patterns with both hands at the same time for 45–60 seconds.
💡 This technique is especially helpful before assessments or tasks that require sustained focus—common in December as schools wrap up units before the holiday season break.
❄️ Quick Routines You Can Implement Tomorrow this Holiday Season
Here are simple, low-effort strategies with high impact:
Emotional thermometer: students show how they feel using a color or gesture at the start of class.
20–20 Pause: every 20 minutes, take 20 seconds to stretch, breathe, or change posture.
Mini goal of the day: invite students to set one small, achievable intention for the session.
30-second closing: ask, “What helped you stay focused today?”
Together, these routines create predictability, reduce anxiety, and build students’ confidence in their own learning process.
By helping students navigate emotions with care and intention, we not only support their academic success—we also empower them to believe in themselves. Whether it’s through a mindful pause or a playful game, small moments of regulation can spark big breakthroughs during the holiday season and beyond.
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Next Level Learning: How Florida Teachers Are Implementing Game-Based Science Instruction
Our wide-scale research project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program, is entering its third year.
Impact Florida, WestEd, and Legends of Learning have partnered with a large Florida district to explore one key question: How can game-based learning lead to better academic outcomes for students in science?
During the project’s first two years, teachers and district leaders provided feedback on how Legends of Learning, a standards-aligned, online platform that teaches science through interactive games, can be integrated into everyday classroom practice. Teachers and students also shared impressions of using the game-based learning platform.
Early results showed that game-based learning made science class more fun and it helped students understand science concepts. Participating teachers found it to be especially effective for keeping students engaged and for reinforcing key science concepts. English learners also reported strong engagement, indicating that game-based learning can help these students participate meaningfully in science class.
“My favorite things about [the platform] are that I can actually learn while playing, which makes me want to learn more about science.” — Fifth grade student
“I liked that it is a new and interactive way for my students to practice science skills and reinforce topics.” — Fifth grade science teacher
Now, with two years of research and feedback in hand, our team is moving into the next phase. The goal is to take what we have learned and test two promising implementation models to identify the best way to integrate game-based learning into regular science instruction.
Model A: Prescribed Time, Flexible Use
Teachers will use the game-based learning platform at least twice per week for about 30 minutes each session.
Teachers can select between District Assignments or create their own.
District Assignments are composed of games, videos, and assessments. Administrators can pre-select this content to align with district curricula.
The game-based learning platform will be used as core instruction during class time, not as a free-choice, reward, or early finisher activity.
This model gives teachers clear expectations for use but allows flexibility to choose or curate assignments that best meet their students’ needs.
Model B: Prescribed Assignments, Flexible Time
Teachers will ensure that students complete all District Assignments made available to them.
Teachers will have flexibility in when and how often to use the platform.
Assignments should not be modified, which ensures consistency across classrooms.
Like Model A, the platform will be used as core instruction during class time.
This model focuses on coherence and alignment across classrooms, giving districts insight into how a prescribed set of assignments can support student learning.
Together, these two approaches will allow researchers and district partners to explore a key question: Does game-based learning work best when teachers have flexibility to adopt or create assignments, or when districts create consistent, unified assignments for all classrooms?
Scaling Up Implementation of Game-Based Learning
The next three years will be the most exciting and informative part of the project so far. Here is why educators and district leaders across Florida should keep an eye on what is coming next.
1. Better Understanding of How Teachers Can Optimally Implement Game-Based Learning
By comparing the two implementation models, our research team will learn how teachers integrate game-based learning into their science instruction and the extent to which they use it consistently and effectively throughout the school year.
2. A Model for Scale
Over the 2026-2027 school year, the chosen implementation model will be tested in hundreds of classrooms across 80 schools to determine the impact of the platform on teacher and student outcomes and to give researchers and practitioners real-world insights into what works for teachers and students. This model may hold promise for making science learning more engaging and effective in districts across Florida and beyond.
Game-Based Learning Aims to Level Up Student Engagement in Florida Science Classrooms
Can game-based learning can help teachers bridge the gap between engagement and academic achievement by pairing science content with the kind of interactive experiences students already love?
Teaching science in the upper elementary grades can be an uphill climb. After pandemic-related disruptions, Florida statewide science proficiency rates dropped sharply, from 55% in 2018 to 47% in 2021. At the same time, today’s students are growing up in an interactive, screen-saturated world. Between 2019 and 2021, daily screen time for children ages 8–12 in the U.S. rose by nearly an hour, with much of that time spent playing video games like Roblox and Minecraft.
The challenge for schools isn’t just to teach science; it’s to capture and sustain students’ attention. Research shows that increasing student engagement with their learning is one of the keys to raising test scores.
Research shows that increasing student engagement with their learning is one of the keys to raising test scores.
To better understand and address this issue, we are studying how an online, standards-aligned, game-based platform can enhance science instruction and encourage student participation in science learning. Supported by an Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Mid-phase grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the project brings together Impact Florida, Legends of Learning, and WestEd to develop and test a scalable, evidence-based model for using game-based learning to boost science learning outcomes in one large Florida district. Now wrapping up its second year, the five-year project has already yielded valuable insights.
Learning Science Through Games
In the first two years, the project’s formative research phase has focused on understanding how teachers and students use the platform in classrooms. In addition, district leaders, teachers, and students made suggestions on how to improve the platform.
Teachers reported feeling that game-based learning supports their science instruction and students enjoyed using the game-based learning platform, calling it fun and educational. Also, teachers and students alike said game-based learning helps foster deeper understanding.
“One of my students . . . was confused between weathering and erosion. And he came up to me and he’s like, ‘I was playing the game and now I really understand it because in the game it showed us.” Fifth grade science teacher
This kind of feedback highlights the power of game-based learning to strengthen comprehension.
Another important finding from the project’s early research is that teachers need seamless ways to connect game-based learning to their existing curriculum and instructional activities.
Many said they loved the games but wanted to more easily find those aligned to current standards or lessons. In the next phase, the project is implementing updated features that strengthen the connection between classroom instruction and game-based learning, including:
District-endorsed assignments that align with local pacing guides – Administrators can pre-select games and activities aligned with district curricula.
Personalized learning mode – The recommendation of games to students based on real-time performance.
Data dashboards – Teachers and administrators can view reports that connect gameplay to learning goals and standards.
These updates will make it easier for teachers to use the game-based learning platform effectively while saving valuable planning time, and for schools to integrate game-based learning into their science instruction at scale.
Game Plan for the Future
Over the next three years, our team will develop and test game-based learning implementation models, conduct a large-scale impact study to determine if classrooms using the game-based learning platform versus those who are not using it show differences in student science learning outcomes, and share findings with educators nationwide.
Across one large Florida district, classrooms are already buzzing with energy as students explore, experiment, and level up their science learning.
Teachers’ Back to School Checklist for 2025
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.
To make things easier, we’ve created a practical Back-to-School Teacher Checklist. It’s designed to help you stay focused, reduce stress, and walk into the first week feeling confident and in control.
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:
Arrange desks to support both collaboration and smooth traffic flow
Set up designated areas for supplies, group work, and tech stations
Post your daily schedule, rules, and routines where all students can see them
Create a student-centered “Welcome” space to display names or photos
Prepare your teacher zone with planners, devices, and essentials
2. Supplies & Student Materials
Avoid last-minute chaos by taking stock of your supplies early.
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! Welcome to another exciting update from our Learning Universe!
This May, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the latest additions to our ever-expanding array of Science classroom 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 April update here.
New Science Games
Get ready to engage your students with exciting new adventures and hands-on learning experiences.
Science Games for Grades 3-5
Got-Ham & Ducklings: Help Ham-Man solve physics puzzles, collect rubber ducks, and learn about Speed and Energy through exciting challenges.
DocDuck: Universe and Stars: Join DocDuck and Elico to explore The Universe and its Stars while learning more about the celestial objects.
Secret Nooks: Growth and Development: Explore colorful worlds, find hidden objects, solve puzzles, and learn all about the Growth and Development of Organisms while collecting fun stickers!
Science Games for Grades 6-8
Dungeon Labs: Body Factory: Test everything in our body to learn more about the Multicellular Organisms and their Subsystems.
Golden Leap: Use your knowledge of Subtraction As Addition Of Additive Inverse to solve puzzles, collect keys, and flip switches to claim the stolen chest.
Galaxy Explorer: Explore The Milky Way Galaxy and other Galaxies using an alien ship!
Winds and Waters: Join this adventure to learn more about The Water Cycle and Weather Patterns, and how natural forces shape our world.
In the Belly of the Beast: Study a giant space whale using your skills on Multicellular Organisms and their Subsystems, explore its organs, tissues, and cells.
Featured Games for Science Learning
This month’s science drop packs exciting, brand-new adventures that turn core concepts into immersive play. Whether you’re covering physical science, space science, or life science, these games invite students to test ideas, collect data, and connect classroom learning to unforgettable challenges.
Teacher Tip: Add these titles to your lesson plans for instantly engaging centers, whole-class demos, or independent exploration—perfect for reinforcing standards while every student learns through play.
Got-Ham & Ducklings for Elementary Science
Put physics in motion with Got-Ham & Ducklings—an upbeat elementary-science game that turns speed and energy into hands-on fun your students will remember.
Invite learners to team up with Ham-Man, the rubber-duck-collecting hero, and discover core physical-science ideas while they play. Along the way, they will:
Experiment with motion by running, jumping, and ricocheting through physics-based puzzles
Measure and compare speed and kinetic energy to clear obstacles and snag every duck
Apply and reinforce concepts in three flexible modes—Story, Practice, and Free Play—perfect for whole-class demos, centers, or independent exploration
Built for curious minds and busy classrooms alike, Got-Ham & Ducklings weaves humor, problem-solving, and curriculum-aligned science into a single engaging experience. Add it to your toolkit and watch students calculate, hypothesize, and quack their way to deeper understanding!
DocDuck: Universe and Stars for Elementary Science
Launch your students’ curiosity sky-high with DocDuck: Universe and Stars—an interactive space-science adventure you can plug straight into your next astronomy unit.
In this game, learners team up with DocDuck and their trusty bot Elico to investigate the Sun, distant stars, and shimmering constellations. As they play, students will:
Compare apparent brightness—experimenting with how distance makes stars look dimmer or brighter
Locate the Sun’s stellar “neighborhood,” seeing how our star fits among billions in the Milky Way
Observe light and shadow changes as Earth’s position shifts, connecting gameplay to day-to-day sky watching
With story-driven quests, quick challenges, and built-in checkpoints for reflection, DocDuck: Universe and Stars turns abstract space concepts into concrete, hands-on exploration. Add it to your lesson plan for an engaging way to deepen understanding of celestial objects while keeping every learner captivated from launch to landing.
Dungeon Labs: Body Factory for Middle Science
Bring human-body science to life with Dungeon Labs: Body Factory—an immersive game that lets students build, test, and troubleshoot the body’s major subsystems in a hands-on virtual lab.
In this adventure, learners become “bio-engineers” inside a quirky dungeon workshop. Their mission: assemble a functioning human and keep every system firing on all cylinders. Along the way, students will:
Investigate multicellular organization—from cells to tissues, organs, and full-body systems
Experiment with interactive mini-games that model the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, nervous, and skeletal systems
Diagnose and fine-tune each subsystem’s performance, seeing how parts work together to support the organism as a whole
With bite-sized challenges perfect for centers, stations, or whole-class demos, Dungeon Labs: Body Factory turns abstract anatomy into problem-solving play—giving you an engaging tool to deepen understanding of life-science standards while every learner builds, tests, and succeeds.
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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Hi Legends! Welcome to another exciting update from our Learning Universe!
This May, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the latest additions to our ever-expanding array of Math learning games, designed to engage students and boost test scores.
If you missed last month’s new games, you can take a look at the April update here.
New Math Games
Get ready to engage your students with exciting new adventures and hands-on learning experiences.
Math games for Grades 3-5
Math and Meal: Run a restaurant and calculate the number of pizza slices, sodas, tables, and chairs using your knowledge of Basic Multiplication And Division Word Problems.
Pip’s Power Patrol: Find the building in trouble and collect energy balls to understand the Place Value As 10X To The Value To The Right basics.
Fraction Feast Pizza Paradise: Time to pizza! Deliver every pizza to the right customer, but watch out! You will succeed only by Understanding Equivalent Fractions. Are you ready?
Rounding Escape: Help Roundy escape a tower by Rounding Decimals To Any Place and solving math challenges.
TWV and The Geometric Gallery: Join the Wondering Vagabond and our gnome friend to fix the art gallery! Use your skills in the Common Attributes of 2D Figures to spot and collect the quadrilaterals!
Convertron: As the Convertron robot, help townspeople Convert Between Standard Measurement Units for everyday tasks.
Math games for Grades 6-8
Slingshot Shinobi: The Divisor Duck: Fluently Divide Multi Digit Numbers to speed through obstacles, collect coins, and unlock special powers on a 1,000-meter math-filled run.
Featured Games For Math Learning
Check out our best brand-new math games!
Each is purpose-built to turn tricky concepts into hands-on fun. Whether your learners are mastering multiplication and division, tackling place value, or exploring equivalent fractions, these interactive experiences invite them to play with purpose.
Teacher tip: Add these titles to your lesson plans for an instant dose of engagement—ideal for centers, remediation, enrichment, or a well-earned brain-boosting break. Dive in, and watch your classroom’s math confidence soar!
Math and Meal — Elementary Math
Engage your Grade 3–5 students with Math and Meal—an interactive restaurant-management game that turns multiplication and division word problems into real-world practice.
In Math and Meal, learners step into the role of restaurant owners. To keep their pizzeria thriving, they’ll:
Calculate how many pizza slices and sodas each party needs
Determine the right number of tables and chairs to seat guests
Apply basic multiplication and division to prep orders, serve customers, and tally payments
While students handle the hustle of running a busy eatery, you’ll see meaningful math practice in action—perfect for reinforcing problem-solving skills and connecting classroom concepts to everyday situations.
Pip’s Power Patrol — Elementary Math
Energize your math block with Pip’s Power Patrol—a fast-paced adventure that turns place-value basics into a heroic mission your Grade 3–5 students won’t forget.
In this game, learners join Pip to rescue Powertown by mastering the idea that each digit’s value is 10 × the place to its right. Along the way, they will:
Pinpoint which building’s power is low by reading multi-digit numbers
Collect runaway energy balls in groups of tens and ones
Adjust energy levels—shifting, regrouping, and comparing values—to light up the city
As students race through Powertown, they apply place-value reasoning in a vivid, real-world context, giving you an engaging way to reinforce a cornerstone math concept while keeping every learner actively involved.
Fraction Feast Pizza Paradise for Elementary Math
Spice up your fractions unit with Fraction Feast: Turtle Pizza Paradise—a lively Grade 3–5 game that turns equivalent-fraction practice into a turtle-powered delivery race.
In this adventure, students become pizza couriers gliding through a tropical maze to satisfy hungry turtle diners. To succeed, they must:
Identify and match equivalent fractions to assemble the perfect slice
Navigate winding paths and playful obstacles using fraction reasoning as their guide
Deliver pizzas quickly and accurately, adjusting toppings and slice sizes to meet each customer’s order
As challenges ramp up, learners apply fraction concepts in an engaging, real-world context, giving you a fun, effective way to reinforce equivalence while every student stays motivated and on task.
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.
Teacher Rewards Points 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.
As the school year winds down and student focus becomes challenging, we’re excited to announce our latest Awakening update!
V1.0.1 is perfectly timed to maintain classroom engagement when you need it most AND combat the dreaded summer learning loss.
Sustaining Learning Momentum When It Matters Most
We understand the struggle of keeping students motivated during the final stretch of the academic year. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that a new Awakening release has been launched!
This update provides fresh educational content to captivate your students’ attention right through the last day of school—and can serve as an engaging bridge to prevent the summer slump.
Let’s zoom in!
New Curriculum-Connected Adventures
The expanded main quest line introduces a Dance Competition and Initiation Party for the Order of the Eternal Flame, offering:
Creative Arts Integration: Designing party attire, house decorations, and choreographing dance moves reinforces creative expression.
Social Studies Elements: The Order of the Eternal Flame activities promote understanding of social structures and community participation.
Collaborative Learning: Club activities encourage teamwork and peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
These storylines aren’t just fun—they’re designed to reinforce key curriculum standards while providing a refreshing context that fights end-of-year fatigue.
Quests are perfectly designed to avoid summer slide with engaging content that keeps students having fun throughout the summer.
Enhanced Differentiation Through the Beastie System
The revamped beastie system provides excellent opportunities for differentiated instruction:
Scaffolded Challenges: Every scene now features shadow beasties that appear on the mini-map, allowing students to progress at their own pace.
Progressive Difficulty: After clearing shadow beasties, wild beasties appear, creating natural advancement for faster learners.
Expanded Collection: Any beastie can now appear as a wild beast, motivating collection-minded students.
Balanced Battles: Our retuned difficulty system ensures appropriate challenge levels for all students.
Technical Improvements for Seamless Classroom Implementation
We’ve eliminated barriers to learning with critical technical updates:
Unity 6 (underlying game technology) Upgrade: Resolves device compatibility issues some classrooms were experiencing.
Optimized Performance: Ensures smooth gameplay even on older school technology.
Consistent Experience: All students can now participate fully regardless of device type.
Classroom Management Benefits
Awakening continues to offer the classroom management tools teachers rely on:
Progress Tracking: Monitor student advancement through the expanded quest line.
Engagement Metrics: Identify which learning activities most captivate your specific students.
Easy Assessment: Gauge understanding through in-game achievements tied to learning objectives.
Students can lose up to 2-3 months of academic progress during summer break. Research from the RAND Corporation highlights that these losses can have a cumulative effect, impacting students’ long-term academic performance.
Awakening offers a powerful solution:
Continuous Engagement: The expanded quest line and new beastie system provide compelling reasons for students to keep playing—and learning—throughout the summer.
Home-School Connection: Recommend Awakening as a parent-approved summer activity that disguises learning as entertainment.
Skill Maintenance: Core academic concepts are reinforced through gameplay, ensuring students retain critical knowledge.
Progress Reports: Track which students are maintaining engagement over summer, helping identify those who might need additional support in fall.
Subscription Value for End-of-Year Budgets and Summer Learning
We’re adjusting level caps to provide clear value differentiation:
Free Access: Students can progress to level 5, perfect for sampling the platform
Subscription Access: Full progression to level 10, unlocking all educational content
The 1.0.1 update launches just in time for the final push of the school year.
Let Awakening help you maintain student engagement during these critical weeks when attention typically wanes, while setting students up for a summer of continued learning disguised as adventure.
Your educational objectives remain our priority as we continue enhancing this powerful game-based learning environment.
Spring into Learning: New Science Games in April 2025
Hi Legends! Welcome to another exciting update from our Learning Universe! This April, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the latest additions to our ever-expanding array of Science classroom 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 March update here.
New Science Games in April 2025
Exciting news for science teachers! Legends of Learning just got even better with the addition of brand-new science games.
Get ready to engage your students in exciting new adventures that make learning fun and interactive.
These games offer hands-on learning experiences that bring science to life right in your classroom. Prepare for a whole new way to explore and master science concepts!
Grades 3-5
What Really Matters: Use different materials to build and clean the path for our little robot friend while learning more about the Properties of Matter.
Grades 6-8
Newton’s Delivery Service: Apply Newton’s First and Second Laws to delivery packages in zero and low gravity!
Carved by Time: Explore how Weathering and Erosion shape our Earth!
Featured Science Games
Dive into three fantastic new science games!
What Really Matters — Elementary Science
Game Description: Help the robot reach its objective without getting hurt.
Players will close materials to complete the robot’s path and protect it from hazards.
Each level introduces a new method of achieving the objective and new materials.
Newton’s Delivery Services — Middle Science Game
Game Description: Deliver packages to their destinations in zero gravity or low gravity environments.
To succeed, players avoid obstacles using Impulse and Continuous Forces as well as their analysis and understanding of Newton’s Laws.
Carved by Time — Middle Science Game
Game Description: Join a cast of magical creatures as they explore the impact of weathering and erosion across diverse environments.
From rolling hills to impressive caves, discover how these natural forces shape our world!
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.
Teacher Rewards Points 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.
Spring into Learning: New Math Games in April 2025
Hi Legends! Welcome to another exciting update from our Learning Universe!
This April, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the latest additions to our ever-expanding array of Math classroom 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 March update here.
New Math Games in March 2025
Get ready to engage your students with exciting new adventures and hands-on learning experiences.
Games for Grades 3-5
Catrina Rounding Adventure: Players help Catrina and get to master how to Round Whole Numbers to Any Place through a fun, pinball-style game!
Fraction Legend: Students visit the enchanted island, discover its secrets, and learn Visual Models of Equivalent Fractions for every math problem at the time!
Pirates vs Numbers: Join Zane and save Numeria from pirates! Use your knowledge of Place Value As 10X To The Value To The Right to counterattack and defeat the enemies!
Featured Math Games
Catrina Rounding Adventure
Game Description:
Catrina Rounding Pinball is designed to help students master the concept of rounding numbers.
Players help Catrina complete an altar for her loved ones in this game by rounding numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.
The game combines pinball mechanics with math challenges, creating an exciting and interactive learning experience.
Story Mode offers a complete learning experience, guiding students through the steps of rounding numbers while completing fun, story-driven challenges.
Practice Mode allows students to practice rounding at their own pace, with no lessons, making it ideal for reinforcing concepts and preparing for exams.
Fraction Legend
Game Description:
Embark on an epic educational adventure where you’ll delve into the fascinating world of fractions while uncovering the secrets of a long-lost medieval island.
Explore ancient ruins, solve intriguing puzzles, and interact with captivating characters as you unravel the mysteries of this forgotten land.
Through immersive gameplay and engaging challenges, you’ll develop a deep understanding of fractional concepts, from basic operations to advanced applications..
Pirates vs Numbers
Game Description:
Join Zane, a brave turtle guardian, on an epic adventure to protect Numeria, a peaceful tropical island, from a fleet of cunning pirates.
Armed with special cannons that fire only with precise calculations, Zane must solve multiplication and division challenges based on place value—understanding that a digit in one place represents 10 times the value of the place to its right.
Navigate through obstacles like sharks and sand-crab distractions while unleashing the power of math to save the island.
Can you help Zane outsmart the pirates and preserve Numeria’s legendary treasures?
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.
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Ready to level up your teaching strategies with high-quality free learning games? Keep reading to discover a fun and rigorous game-based learning platform that is easy to use!
If you are a committed teacher…
who is looking for engaging ways to bring math and science to life in your classroom,
who wants to incorporate game-based learning tools without complicated setups and sign-ups,
then you need to know about free-learning-games.com (powered by Legends of Learning)!
We understand that teachers are busy. Finding and implementing new resources can feel overwhelming between lesson planning, grading, and everything else.
Free-Learning-Games.com (a free resource from Legends of Learning) makes incorporating educational games into your classroom as simple and easy as ever. Let’s dive in!
What is Free-Learning-Games.com?
Most of the Legends of Learning games are now available for free in this platform designed to give teachers instant access to a library of high-quality, curriculum-aligned math and science games.
And the best part? No account is required! That’s right – you can explore, find, and share games with your students in just a few clicks.
How to Use Free-learning-games.com in Your Classroom:
Explore the Library: Visit the home page and browse the extensive standards-aligned math and science game collection. Search by game name or standard.
Find the Perfect Game: Browse to find games that align with your curriculum and grade level.
If you’re looking for 4th-grade math games, simply select the desired option on the board to find the game that meets your needs.
Looking for elementary-level Earth and Space Science games? Click the button to see your options!
Preview and Play: Preview the games to ensure they’re a good fit for your students.
Share with Your Students: Copy the game link and share it with your students through your preferred platform.
Watch Learning Come to Life: Observe your students as they engage with the games and reinforce their understanding of key concepts.
Why Choose Free-learning-games.com Powered by Legends of Learning?
Ease of Access: Say goodbye to lengthy registration processes. With free-learning-games.com, you can jump right in and start exploring games immediately. Simply search or browse by topic, grade level, or standard, and you’re ready to go.
Educational Impact: All games available are designed to reinforce key concepts in math and science. They’re not just fun; they’re effective learning tools.
Seamless Sharing: Sharing games with your students is incredibly easy. Just copy the link and share it through your preferred platform – Google Classroom, email, or your class website.
Free and Accessible: Find a wide selection of free games, making it a budget-friendly resource for teachers.
Introducing Awakening!
This is the perfect starting point for incorporating game-based learning into your teaching strategies.
And when your students are ready for a more immersive experience, they can seamlessly transition to Awakening, Legends of Learning’s fully immersive educational gaming platform, which offers even more engaging and in-depth learning experiences.
Free-Learning-Games.com naturally funnels students toward this more comprehensive platform, maximizing their learning journey.
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