Pathos Learning: Home of the game show software that teachers use with smart boards in their own classrooms. We also provide very inexpensive vocabulary, communcation, and literature software for labs or computer stations.

Interactive Classroom Gaming Software
for your digital projector, monitor, or stations

Games that you can take for a grade!

Works great with a
projector, monitor, or computer
stations.
(bring in an interactive white board for that added
experience!)
The black cat riding on a match. Cat = categorizing, Match = matching, get it??? YOUR matching sets and category sets will keep your students enthralled with these awesome smartboard games!!!

A new concept in interactive learning!


MatchCat lets you, the instructor, quickly create files containing matching elements (like terms and definitions) and categorized elements (like centuries and events)--on your subject matter. 

These game sets can be saved and then be uploaded into ALL the games described below for interactive learning fun!

Don't forget to check out the Venn
Diagram game
below!

Click to Download MatchCat    (FREE 14-day trial) 30 MB

$49.95 Download

$59.95 CD-Rom (1st class shipping)

unlimited use for one teacher on all her/his computers!

MatchCat contains ALL of the games on this page! . . .
You simply make your own matching & category sets.
Up to 12 teams match words to definitions by dragging and dropping on the Smartboard (or interactive white board of your choice). Divide the class in half for this Battle version of Aristotle. Rotate opportunities to drag and drop through the students on each side. The first team to drag and match all of their side wins! Create 2 to 5 categories for your students to drag names and terms into. Successful drags score points. The whole class can also get a grade based on the percentage. Add scores to the percentage to reward team success. COMPETITION IS LEARNING!

Aristotle
Teams drag words and concepts to their categories or their matching partners. Up to 12 Teams can play against each other or with each other to get the highest percentage possible for the whole class--or both--allowing you to take it for a grade! Great for interactive white boards, but monitors or projectors alone will also work.  Heck, put it on computer stations if you want! 

Up to 12 teams attempt to match your words (on top) to your definitions (on bottom). Terms to categories can also be matched!

Concentration
Remember that Concentration card game in elementary school?   BETTER!  Players flip the cards over trying to remember the and their matching definitions, concepts and their categories, etc.  If it's events and their dates, match 'em up!  If it's species and kingdoms, categorize 'em!  Up to 12 teams against each other or the  class vs. the clock!

Some MatchCat Ideas for SOCIAL STUDIES:
--Categorize Battles within wars
--Categorize philosophical concepts within periods
--Categorize nations within continents
--Categorize concepts within Constitutional
     Amendments
--Categorize inventions to great inventors
--Categorize novels within novelists . . .

This is an example of a category question. Which category does the Quest for the Holy Grail fall into (datewise)? Matching questions THAT YOU CREATE can also be uploaded for game play. Students learn the countries of modern Europe while playing Battle for Europe. Upload either your categories or matching sets for students to make the connections central to your course objectives. Students can either stand at either side of the board to answer questions or they can roll to defeat an opponent's defense--but only if they get an answer correct.

Battle for Europe
Match or categorize and take over Europe!  Up to 5 teams  battle for nations, learning your subject matter--and the geographical arrangement of the European states.  Fast-paced, easy to play, very engaging!

Some MatchCat Ideas for LANGUAGE ARTS:
--Categorize words within their parts of speech
--Categorize qualities to corresponding novel or
     short story characters
--Categorize archetypal symbols to their place
     in an archetypal world
--Categorize words to their general connotative 
     meaning or tone
--Categorize literary events to their periods
--Categorize foreign words or phrases within
     their English equivalents
--Categorize quotes to those who said them . . .

It's hangman without the brutality of hanging anyone. Of course, if Binky the evil space clown gets reborn, cities will crumble. Students try to decifer what term is being diplayed in blanks (matching or category) with the hint (e.g.,definition) given.

Klown
Crazy and cool digital projector gaming...
Using your created matching or category files, up to 12 teams of students compete against each other try to stop the building of Binky, the evil space clown--that will take over the world if not stopped.  How to stop such a creature? By playing a kind of hangman, of course.  Hey, it could happen . . . Oh yes, indeed.

"How do you like my bling? (cough...cough) . . .
Hurry up, I have a city to destroy."

VENN: One to three categories for students to drag terms or statements into.

VENN
Players drag concepts into categories on a Venn diagram that you have built; great for all subjects and an excellent teaching as well as reviewing tool. Up to six teams compete for percentages and points.  One, two, or three circles allow for up to 8 possible sections for each concept, name, battle, characteristic, or whatever association you want to make in the circle graph.  Like all of our games, your students play (and learn your content) while you relax!  Very cool . . .

One sample game: Is it a quality of a comet, an asteroid, or neither? With one category, students determine if a number is a prime number or not--in the category or outside of it? Three categories: Does the statement pertain to Banquo, Macbeth, Macduff, None, or any combination of them?

CREATE EXAMS
You can also create randomized exams at the press of a button
from the category and matching sets that you make. 
Download, install, and give MatchCat a free spin for 14 days. 
After that, buy it and get tons of teaching fun for less than the price of a tank of gas!

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