Here are two cute games for students that are in middle school math, geometry, or even science classes! These games focus on practicing conversions and comparing mass, length, and volume. Teachers looking for a relaxing fun Friday and homeschooling parents looking for ways to add fun to learning should check out these two games!
- Horrendous Soup on MrNussbaum.Com
FROM THE WEBSITE: “Horrendous Soup is a fun game in which students have to make a recipe for the most disgusting soup they can imagine. Students progress through the game by adding ingredients to the soup. Some of the ingredients are measured in capacity, some are measured in mass, and some are measured in distance (for example, the recipe might call for a certain amount of millimeters of toothpaste or tree branch). Given this is a bit far-fetched, but still a perfect way to reinforce metric conversion skills. To successfully print out the recipe, students must demonstrate the ability to convert the amounts of ingredients to other metric units. For example, liters to milliliters and vice versa, grams to milligrams and vice versa, and millimeters to centimeters to meters.” https://mrnussbaum.com/horrendous-soup-online-game
Students enjoyed the silly ingredients in the game. The pacing was also really nice – the fun part of selecting ingredients is one chunk while the conversions for the entire recipe is another chunk. Students can see the patterns between the different prefixes on volume, length, and mass. Check it out here.
2. City of Units on LegendsofLearning.com
Students enjoyed the challenges presented in this game. It’s a bit more interactive than the last game. First, you measure the length, mass, or volume of various objects by comparing them. Then, you combine the objects you have to make different size units! Check this game out here.
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