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Cardline: Animals

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Cardline: Animals is a card game played with approximately 100 cards. Both sides of each card depict an animal, its name, and its class (amphibian, mammal, etc.), while its average length, weight, and lifespan are printed on only one side of the card.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Play Time: 
15 min.
Cardline: Animals

Cardline: Globetrotter

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Players of Cardline: Globetrotter want to rid themselves of cards as quickly as they can, with the first player to have an empty hand winning the game.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
15 min.
Cardline: Globetrotter

Prime Climb

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Prime Climb is a new board game that uses arithmetic to open a beautiful world of possibility. Players race to be the first to get to the center of the board while avoiding getting knocked back to the start by other players.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
45 min.
Prime Climb

Survive: Escape from Atlantis!

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Survive is a cutthroat game where players seek to evacuate their pieces from an island that is breaking up, while remembering where their highest-valued pieces are located to maximize their score.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
60 min.
Survive: Escape from Atlantis!

Mission US: City of Immigrants

In Mission 4: “City of Immigrants,” players navigate New York’s Lower East Side as Lena, a young Jewish immigrant from Russia. Trying to save money to bring her parents to America, she works long hours in a factory for little money and gets caught up in the growing labor movement.

Game Over Gopher

Hungry gophers are after the prized carrot. Defend the carrot by placing units on a coordinate grid. A finalist in the 2012 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge.

Gate

Shadows are corrupting the land. Restore the balance of nature by exploring place value. Gate guides students in: Lowering intimidation about large numbers and decimals. Understanding the meaning of place value. Realizing that the same mathematical concepts that apply to the "easy" integers apply to every order of magnitude.

Spot It! Basic Spanish

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Spot it! is a simple pattern recognition game in which players try to find an image shown on two cards. Each card in Spot it! features eight different symbols, with the symbols varying in size from one card to the next. Any two cards have exactly one symbol in common. For the basic Spot it!

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELL
Play Time: 
15 min.
Spot It! Basic Spanish

Roll for It!

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Roll For It! is a casual, family-friendly dice and card game. Each player starts the game with six dice of a single color, and three target cards are laid face-up on the table.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
15 min.
Roll for It!

Scrabble Slam!

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In this fast-paced card game based on Scrabble, each player is dealt a hand of two-sided cards: each one has a different letter on each side, and a pair of letters in the corners that note which letters are on each face.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
15 min.
Scrabble Slam!

Fox and Chicken

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The party game Werewolf has been popular for many years, but now it's time to put the cat amongst the pigeons – or the fox amongst the chickens, anyway.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Other
Play Time: 
20 min.
Fox and Chicken

My First Bohnanza

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My First Bohnanza serves as both an introduction to Bohnanza and as a children's game in its own right, with the goal of the game being the same as its parent: Have the most Talers at the end of play.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Business/Technology
Library
Play Time: 
30 min.
My First Bohnanza

Qwixx

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Qwixx is a quick-playing dice game in which everyone participates, no matter whose turn it is. Each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-12 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 12-2 in rows of green and blue.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Library
Play Time: 
15 min.
Qwixx

Coconuts

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Coconuts is a dexterity game based on the "Monkey King" character from Chinese mythology.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
20 min.
Coconuts

Wordwright

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Wordwright is an expandable card game platform that focuses on how the English language works: Players make words using word parts and their definitions, not individual letters.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
Wordwright

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