Social Studies

Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

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Two friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African Americans.

Author: 
Dean Robbins
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:07
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Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: The Story of the Gettysburg Address

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Abraham Lincoln was a busy man. He had to run the country, wint the war and look after his family.

Author: 
Jean Fritz
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:18
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George Washington's Mother

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This is the true story of Mary Washington. When she wasn't worring about being poor, she was poking her nose in George's business, baking gingerbread, and smoking a pipe.

Author: 
Jean Fritz
Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:20
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The Eugenics Crusade: What's Wrong With Perfect? (2018)

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A hybrid derived from the Greek words meaning "well" and "born," the term eugenics was coined in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton, a British cousin to Charles Darwin, to name a new "science" through which human beings might take charge of their own evolution.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
2:00
The Eugenics Crusade: What's Wrong With Perfect?

Native America (2018)

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Native America challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000 years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Length: 
03:40
Native America

ReadyFor Breakout Edu Kit

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The Breakout EDU kit includes everything you need to play over 350 games created for the classroom environment. The kit includes access to the new BreakoutEdu Platform to be used while using the kit.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Middle
High
Professional
Content Area: 
ELA
Math
Social Studies
Science
Fine Arts
LOTE
Computer Science
Special Education
Family/Consumer Science
Business/Technology
Library
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
ReadyFor Breakout Edu Kit

High Treason!

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Canada’s westward expansion was very different than that of the United States. In the U.S., conflict in the westward movement was between the White Man and the Native Indian, and a common language united U.S. settlers.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
40 min.
High Treason!

Ticket to Ride: First Journey Europe

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Players collect train cards, claim routes on the map, and try to connect the cities shown on their tickets. In more detail, the game board shows a map of Europe with certain cities being connect by colored paths.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
20 min.
Ticket to Ride: First Journey Europe

History of the World

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Take a ride through humankind's history with History of the World, a game of conquest and cunning for three to six players. Expand your empire as you command mighty empires at the height of their power from the dawn of civilization to the twentieth century.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
120 min.
History of the World

Elementary Math Escape Experience

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The Chinese Cultural Museum is looking for volunteers to work at their prestigious institution. To help narrow down the competition, the museum has put together a series of puzzles and obstacles that interested applicants have to make their way through.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Content Area: 
Math
Social Studies
Play Time: 
60 min.
Elementary Math Escape Experience

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