Often, students think they are studying but they are not taking in what they are seeing in their textbooks and worksheets. When students team with their tutors to create these games, they learn to reframe their assigned work as questions and answers and to anticipate their teachers’ questions and answers. If you would like to explore this option, your tutor will work with your middle or high school student to create online flashcards and computer games for the material covered during homework sessions.

In between sessions, your tutor may ask the student to email to him/her notes on the homework, which we will also convert to flashcards and computer games--very handy for midyear or final exam prep and in subjects where a large quantity of information must be memorized, such as biology.

By participating in this process, students will hopefully strengthen their ability to perceive and integrate the main ideas in their reading and often make substantial gains in their time-management and organizational skills. Eventually, we hope that our students will add this kind of focused note-taking to their learning strategies.

There is no cost for the games already available on our website. For instance, the following material was created a few years ago for a Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall 10th grader taking world history and now is proving useful to students who are studying the French Revolution. Though the questions, having been specifically designed with this teacher’s assignments and expectations, might not be as useful as customized materials would be, they are still very helpful.

The French Revolution & Napoleon Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall Gr. 10 Focus Questions 522-535 Jackpot Who’s Who? Important Dates The Final French Revolution Challenge!

These games, prepared for a Burlington High School 9th grader’s American History course have proved useful to many of our subsequent students:

The War For Independence Shaping A New Nation Burlington High Gr. 9 Matching Game The Preamble to the United States Constitution Constitution Vocabulary The Stirrings of Rebellion Struggling toward Saratoga Who’s Who?

The following games have proven to be useful to many of our chemistry students in the 2 years since they were created for a Lexington High Junior.

Chemistry Lexington High Gr. 11 Chemical Bonds Test Your Knowledge Of Ionic & Covalent Bonds Chemical Symbols Matching Game

And games like the following brought a Stoneham High School Senior’s grades in oceanography into the B range, a long way from the science grades he was achieving before we began working with him.

Oceanography Stoneham High Gr. 12 Water Planet Jackpot Water Quiz! Exploring The Oceans Who Did What? Marine Archeology Marine Exploration Cetaceans: Whales and Dolphins 14.1 & 14.2 Matching Whale Adaptations & Behaviors The Diving Response Marine Mammal Challenge Sections 12.2 & 12.3 Shark Attack! Unusual Adaptations in Fish Marine Science Today Scientific Method & Measurement Metric Measurement 13.1 & 13.2 Jackpot! Chapter 13 Challenge

For more information about the methods of preparation and cost of our customized games, please refer to this page of our website.