Customized matching quizzes, virtual flashcards and worksheets with audio are available at Quizlet's website, which has over 2,000 9th grade flashcard/quiz sets with topics ranging from 9th grade vocabulary to 9th grade earth sciences, math and social studies. You can also create your own flashcard and quiz topics using the site's flashcard creation tool. Each flashcard set comes with quizzes that can be customized to use true or false, written, multiple choice or matching answers.
The Vector Kids website introduces students to some basic geometric concepts with an online version of the classic "Concentration" card game. In this version, players match triangular shapes with descriptions of their angles. Another site, FunBrain, allows students to select a theme from subjects such as musical instruments, animals and good food. Players choose a skill level from "easy" up to "extra hard," and are given 14 pairs to match. Players choose two cards at a time and attempt to make matches, with subject matter varying according to theme choices.
NASA offers several matching games on its website, including a "Scope it Out" game where players attempt to name the parts of a telescope after a brief online lesson. This game, which has four levels of play, teaches students about everything from small Newtonian reflecting telescopes up to large telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope. A NASA infrared light game is also available where players can match normal photos of themselves with infrared photos. NASA also offers a Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) game that prompts players to name parts of the MGS after reading about it on site. Other activities on the site include games where players match photos to sun words and cloud types, as well as an earth/sun concentration game.
APlusMath offers a wide selection of math games for 9th grade students. The site's virtual "Concentration" game offers pairs of cards with multiplication and division problems on one side, and the answers to the problems on the other. Players turn the cards over in pairs, and then turn them back face down if a pair is not made. This forces players to use their memories to win. The site also offers "Matho," an online math version of "Bingo," that sharpens students' geometry, division and multiplication skills.
Luminosity is another website that has matching games appropriate for 9th graders. Luminosity offers several free, high-quality animated matching games, including "Familiar Faces" and "Speed Match." "Familiar Faces" requires players to remember customer names and orders in a cafe, while "Speed Match" tests players' memory of previous cards, in a fast-paced shape match game.