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Colgate Kid's World

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Colgate Kid's World

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Colgate Kid’s world is a collection of free, online mini-games and fun activities for children about proper dental hygiene. These games address important teeth cleaning habits and how diet and nutrition can affect players’ teeth.

Escapa!

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Escapa!

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Escapa! is a brain-exercising game designed to improve concentration among players. The goal of this free, online game is to move a red square around without touching the walls or running into moving objects. As soon as the red square makes contact with something else, the game ends and the players are shown the amount of time they lasted.

Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues

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Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues

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This game allows the player to “experience real-life emergency medical cases such as cardiac arrests, broken bones an life-threatening traumas as you respond to situations requiring you to revive, treat and keep seriously ill patients alive.”

The Problem Site

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The Problem Site

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The Problem Site is a web site that offers free educational games, puzzles, and problem-solving activities that focus primarily on mathematics and cognition. This site originally started as a place for mathematicians to post math problems they could not solve in hopes that visitors would come up with the solution. More recently the web site has grown into a learning environment that has something for players of all ages.

Popsicle

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Popsicle

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Popsicle is a stress reduction game designed to soothe the nerves and induce a sense of balance and well being within players. The free, online game seeks to renew players' spirit by stimulating a shift in cognitive perspective.

Brain Age

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Brain Age

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For the Nintendo DS, Brain Age includes a variety of cognitive-based mini-games designed to entertain and challenge players. Players can draw pictures, read books out loud, and solve puzzles, and play popular games like Sudoku.

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Birdwatching

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Birdwatching

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This game is designed to improve players’ attention and sharpen their ability to process visual information. While it starts out easy, the game gets progressively more challenging as players improve.

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Tranquility

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Tranquility

This relaxation game that employs calming music and vibrantly-colored geometric shapes that move in synchrony. Using a computer mouse, players gently move the cursor in a way that flows gracefully with the other shapes and sounds. While immersed in this game, players may experience feelings of relaxation, contentment, and even euphoria.