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Kids Games

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Kids Games

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Kids Games is an educational web site for children that offers a variety of free games, activities, and puzzles. Games address areas including coordination, art, music, and cognition.

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Earn the Stars

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Earn the Stars

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Happy Neuron Visual-Spatial Games: Entangled Objects, Points of View, Sleight of Hand, Turning Around and Around, Under Pressure

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Happy Neuron Visual-Spatial Games: Entangled Objects, Points of View, Sleight of Hand, Turning Around and Around, Under Pressure

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Happy Neuron Visual-Spatial Games were developed to help improve players’ visual and spatial skills. These games may teach players to be more aware of their surroundings.

Fit for Life Boy Scout Badge

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Fit for Life Boy Scout Badge

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The Fit for Life badge is a Boy Scout badge that was created to help overcome barriers to maintaining a physically active lifestyle. Boy Scouts trying to attain this badge were given access to a Fit for Life web site that contained games and goal charts. These games are not currently available.

Inner G

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Inner G

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Inner G is a free, online puzzle game that intends to teach young players about human organs and their locations in the human body. Players are presented with a body that is missing some vital organs and must correctly place the organs back where they belong. Players can attempt an unlimited number of times, but the puzzle is not completed until all parts are back where they should be.

Deca Sports

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Deca Sports

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Deca Sports is an interactive sports game comprised of ten different sports activities made for the Nintendo Wii. Using a Wii remote, players can engage in archery, figure skating, badminton, curling, and more.

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Half-Life

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Half-Life

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Half-Life is a first-person shooter game set in an underground research facility. Players solve puzzles and tasks to find their way out of the facility. This game has been used as therapy for individuals with phobias. It can be played on the Sega Dreamcast, PC, and PlayStation2.

Faceland

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Faceland

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This game uses an “amusement park theme to engage and motivate.” It helps children “build skill in facial recognition of emotion by: breaking concepts down into smaller pieces (clues), promoting clue acquisition via spaced repetition, checking for understanding of clues using new examples, combining clues for “part to whole” learning, and utilizing instruction that incorporates photos, mirror mimic sessions, and varied interaction.”