ElectroCity is an interesting online game designed for education. Based around the SimsCity principle, users have to try to build a financially viable eco-city where all the inhabitants can also be happy.

There is a teachers section with some down loadable worksheets. Although aimed at 7 - 9 year olds, and ideal for Family Learning, it has great potential for use with non English speakers for language development;

Find out more at http://electrocity.co.nz/.

If any of you try it, please let me know how useful it was.

Note: - There is also a downloadable version of the game for those with slower connections and wonder of wonders there is both a PC and a MAC version. It's quite a small download too ( 1 - 2 Mb). You can find these in the teachers' resources section.