Realistic animations, games and videos that engage children and teachers while exploring.

I use this as an extra activity. Like a video break before a Holiday or on State testing days.

Cyberchase helps make mastering math topics fun and engaging. The free website offers students many topics to investigate. Once they narrow in on a topic Cyberchase provides video explanations, games, and activities to support student learning. Students seemed to enjoy the videos and games. On the downside, it was difficult to set students loose on the website and expect them to complete grade-level material. For example, some of the fraction games were way to easy for my 4th graders while others were too difficult. The site is organized by topic, not grade, or standard. There is no way to know whether the content is appropriate for your students without sampling the video/games/activities. There is also no data backend to track student learning. The system is not adaptive to to student needs either.

I liked how easy it was to find content related to topics of interest to me/my class. My students were definitely engrossed in what they were doing even though at the end they said it was a little "babyish." Even my struggling readers were able to use it effectively. Having closed-captioning on video is great too. The kids said they didn't feel like they were learning, "just having fun!" but there is good content in the videos with lots of learning potential if you use it well.