Links to Make You Think!

Are you ready to exercise your brain?!

Work with AIMS test skills:

Kidport Think and Learn

Arizona Department of Education Sample AIMS Tests

Group Five Flash Resources

Work with architecture and art:

Architect Studio Ever thought of being an architect? You can give it a try at this site. First, choose your client. Then build a house that meet's your client's needs and expresses your artistic talents. As you build you can see the house and even walk through it in 3D!

A Pintura, Art Detective Use your art skills to solve the case of Grandpa's missing painting.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Explore and learn about great art. If you'd like to add Met artwork to our own Paseo Hills online collection at the Met, ask Ms. Salameh how.

Work with math:

Math Playground  Think you're fast with your times tables? Play Space Racer X and find out. If you like watching Millionaire on TV, you might like playing Math Millionaire on this site. Look for the the Rubik's Cube and Simon Memory Game on the Logic Puzzles page.

Shodor Interactives Make tesselations, use the pattern generator (it's a lot harder than you'd think!), break famous codes, use function machines and number crunchers.

Work with social studies:

Civil War Sites

Survival Game Are you smart enough to survive a shipwreck?

Plimoth Plantation What was it really like when the pilgrims settled in New England?

Explorer Matching, Concentration, and Word Search

Online European Explorers Quiz

Test Your Geography Knowledge How well do you know where countries and states are in this big world? Test yourself on this site!

Work with language arts:

Stories to Read Online

Contraction Games

Prefixes and Suffixes Games

Work with science:

Science News for Kids

EdHeads Try your hand at virtual hip replacement or knee surgery. Learn how to predict weather.

Work with a variety of academic challenges!

4kids.org

IKnowThat.com Play Underwater Expedition, Alien Word Mine, or Punctuation Paintball. When asked for a user name, you may type in ph (for Paseo Hills) and for password, you may type in hp (ph backwards).

Other games and educational activities