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Teachers' Picks: The Classroom Wish List
Make a game of learning with these fun new products.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
The Scrambled States of America $15.95.
This map game makes child’s play of U.S. geography. A new deluxe edition comes with 10 additional cards and a copy of Laurie Keller’s Scrambled States book.
Multiplication Master $16.99.
How many times-table challenges can a player complete in 60 seconds? It’s an electronic multiplication flash-card set with an addictive twist.
LeapPad 2 $99.99.
A self-contained digital tablet for tiny hands, the LeapPad has a library of hundreds of educational games, apps, and e-books—and a camera that takes pics and video.
Iota $7.99.
Players match colors, shapes, and sizes in a surprisingly sophisticated card game that fosters strategic thinking, spatial relations, and visual discrimination. Also, it’s fun.
Recycled Robots $24.95.
Robot expert Robert Malone’s book-and-craft kit has everything a young builder needs (including a battery-operated motor) to assemble 10 distinctive robots.
Sentence Buildings $29.99.
With a building for each part of speech—noun, verb, adjective, etc.—and 300 vocabulary cards that slip inside them, it’s a hands-on way for kids to construct sentences.
Arx $32.95.
These beguiling blocks—each one outfitted with its own rolling magnet—stack together in unexpected ways bound to incite the imagination in new directions.
ShapeOmetry $19.99.
Players compete to build congruent shapes out of various blue and green pieces, developing abstract and spatial reasoning skills along the way.
- Subjects:Arts and Creativity, Professional Development, Technology
