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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy Choices Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use this board game to introduce the concepts of energy use in our lives and the very real impact that personal choices can have on our energy consumption, energy bills and fuel supply. The game begins as students select cards that...
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A&E Television

History.com: How the Great Depression Became the Golden Age for Monopoly

For Students 9th - 10th
When times got tough during the Great Depression, people played board games -- especially the game that's all about making money. The success of Monopoly befuddled many. Why, in a time of great financial despair, would families and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Animal Game Impact of Human Activity or Natural Disasters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A description of a lesson where students first listen to a story where they begin to think about and discuss the impact humans and natural disasters have on the environment. They then play a board game. This requires preparation...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Vikings: Game of Hnefatafl

For Students 9th - 10th
This history project features an old Norse game that is found in many Viking and Norse sites. It consists of a board and game pieces like chess and checkers. Students can make their own board and playing pieces and challenge each other...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a Skateboard

For Students 2nd - 6th
Make a Skateboard is a radical activity for gnarly skaters of all ages! Go through a step-by-step process selecting different board shapes, grip tape, trucks, wheels, paint, stickers, and awesome extras! No two boards are the same. What...
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Quia

Quia: Funky Plurals Challenge Board

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An interactive Jeopardy-style game for one or two players. Students answer questions by typing the plural forms of the nouns provided in the following categories: Plurals-Latin Words, Plurals-Greek Words, Plurals-Y Words, Plurals-O...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Linear Equations Game

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by a modeling game in level-based rounds. Each round provides a different configuration of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy Problem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This six-day lesson provides students with an introduction to the importance of energy in their lives and the need to consider how and why we consume the energy we do. The lesson includes activities to engage students in general energy...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam!: Bully Roundup

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive, board game style activity tests kids' knowledge of bullying and how to avoid becoming a bully and being bullied. It also offers many tips to make students more bully aware.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends

For Students K - 1st
Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends is a great activity for young children to work with consonant digraphs and the different words they create. Help your Fuzz Bugs Farm Animal make its way across the game board by answering different...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Wacky Wipe Offs a Phenome Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...
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PBS

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Hofmannopoly [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have access to a color printer then you can print and play Hofmannopoly! Assemble the game board according to the directions and grab a friend to play. You will be an art student traveling through the world of Hans Hofmann. Learn...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Animalines

For Students 2nd - 6th
Animalines as a fun puzzle game for the whole family! Make these cute critters dance by connecting the matching animals and filling in the entire game board. Do you have what it takes to complete all 75 levels?
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Building Bridges of Friendship

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to build better friendships when you explore this resource. This site provides detailed games, activities, and other resources to help students learn about the importance of building relationships.
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Read Works

Read Works: Right On

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Study for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a science unit on weather. Students use the board to answer questions, move objects, and chart observations. An Activote is included for summative assessment.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Number After Bingo 1 15

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will play this Bingo by covering numbers that "come after" the number shown. Students will take turns drawing a number card, stating the number after and placing his/her counter on that number on the game board. The first...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Iteso

For Students 9th - 10th
The Iteso comprise the second-largest ethnic group in Uganda and a significant portion of the non-Bantu-speaking minority in Kenya's Western Province. For the Iteso of Kenya, there are substantial studies of social organization, social...