Game

High (X) - Middle (X) - Game (X)

Timeline: Discoveries

Icon: 
game icon

Timeline: Discoveries is a card game played using 109 cards. Each card depicts an discovery on both sides, with the year in which that discovery occurred on only one side. Players take turns placing a card from their hand in a row on the table.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
15 min.
Timeline: Discoveries

Timeline: Historical Events

Icon: 
game icon

Timeline: Events is a card game played using 110 cards. Each card depicts a historical event on both sides, with the year in which that event occurred on only one side. Players take turns placing a card from their hand in a row on the table.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
15 min.
Timeline: Historical Events

Stomple

Icon: 
game icon

This is a strategic marble stomping game. Outwit your opponents by stomping their marbles before they stomp yours! Outmaneuver by leaving their "stomper" trapped with no escape. OUTSTOMP the competition and you win!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
10 min.
Stomple

Ingenious

Icon: 
game icon

Designed by Reiner Knizia, Ingenious is the popular board game in which two to four players place colored tiles on a hexagonal board, scoring points, blocking opponents’ tile placement, and protecting themselves from being blocked.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
30 min.
Ingenious

Pentago

Icon: 
game icon

An abstract strategy game for 2 players with four 3×3 grids arranged into a larger 6×6 grid. This game re-implements the well know "connect 4" with a twist: after placing a marble of his colour, the player has to twist one of the grids by 90°, so changing the board after every turn.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
5 min.
Pentago

You've Been Sentenced!

Icon: 
game icon

This sentence-building game uses unique five-sided cards with multiple conjugations of a base word. With a hand of 10 cards, players try to score the most points per round by constructing the longest, grammatically correct, and sensible sentence.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
You've Been Sentenced!

Dixit Jinx

Icon: 
game icon

Jinx is a new Game in the Dixit family but unlike the original game the drawings are not realistic illustrations depicting scenes but images halfway between abstraction and figuration.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
ELA
Fine Arts
Play Time: 
15 min.
Dixit Jinx

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective

Icon: 
game icon

Ten Sherlock Holmes adventures in which you are the hero! You are a member of the Baker Street Irregulars working to solve mysteries before the Master! You are either investigating the mysteries as an individual, or trying to win against up to 8 other investigators.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Science
Play Time: 
90 min.
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective

Sidibaba

Icon: 
game icon

In Sidibaba, players take on the role of Sidibaba and his friends who are searching for hidden treasure in a cave.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
45 min.
Sidibaba

Destruct 3

Icon: 
game icon

One player builds a block tower in the center of the board, then the other players attempt to destroy the stack using either a ramp, catapult, or pendulum. The destruction method each player uses is determined by a die roll.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Play Time: 
15 min.
Destruct 3

Duck! Duck! Go!

Icon: 
game icon

Bathtub rubber ducky racing has long been a popular sport. Every year rubber duckies from all walks of life train in bathtubs, spas and small ponds around the world to prepare for the annual Kenducky Derby, the premier bathtub ducky race. duck! duck! GO!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
20 min.
Duck! Duck! Go!

The Hunger Games: Jabberjay Game

Icon: 
game icon

The Hunger Games: Jabberjay is a social card game for 5-12 players (an alternate game on page 2 can be played with 2-4 players). Each player represents a District Citizen or a Capitol Citizen whose identity remains secret during most of the game.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Library
ELA
Play Time: 
30 min.
The Hunger Games: Jabberjay Game

Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Icon: 
game icon

Early in the history of the United States, slavery was an institution that seemed unmovable but with efforts of men and women across the country, it was toppled.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
120 min.
Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Council of Verona

Icon: 
game icon

The citizens of Verona have grown tired of the constant quarrel between the houses of Capulet and Montague. As ruler of the region, Prince Escalus has formed a council to help mediate the conflict and bring lasting peace to Verona.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Council of Verona

Munchkin Deluxe

Icon: 
game icon

Munchkin is a satirical card game based on the clichés and oddities of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games. Each player starts at level 1 and the winner is the first player to reach level 10.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
60 min.
Munchkin Deluxe

Pages