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Rory's Story Cubes

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Rory’s Story Cubes are a remarkably simple and effective means for inspiring creative thinking and problem solving in all of us. Simply toss all the dice, examine each of the nine face-up images and let them guide your imagination through a story that begins with “Once upon a time…”.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Special Education
ELA
Play Time: 
10 min.
Rory's Story Cubes

Quiddler

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The challenge is to arrange your entire hand into words. Draw and discard in turn. Try to use those high point letters, but don't get caught with them uncombined.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Quiddler

My Word!

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Quickly search for words while single and double letter cards are dealt on to the table. The first player to call out a word using at least three cards, wins those cards.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
My Word!

Once Upon a Time

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Once Upon a Time is a game in which players create a story using the cards that show important elements from fairy tales. One player is the storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients on their cards, trying to guide the plot to their own ending.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Once Upon a Time

LetterFlip

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LetterFlip is the head-to-head word game where players combine clever deduction with a little luck in a quest to identify concealed words. Each player tries to be the first to identify all four words on his or her LetterFlip card.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
LetterFlip

Backseat Drawing

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The Hysterical Game of Sketchy Directions! Two teams race to identify drawings done by their own team members. But the artists don’t know what they are drawing—they can only follow the instructions given by another team member.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
ELA
Fine Arts
Play Time: 
20 min.
Backseat Drawing

Word on the Street

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The Hilarious Tug of Words!

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Word on the Street

Glorious Knights

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The knights Robert, Ronald, Roland and Richard are taking part in an exciting competition: they have to try to find their way as quickly as possible through the mysterious maze.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Special Education
ELA
Play Time: 
20 min.
Glorious Knights

Nanofictionary

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Nanofictionary is a game about telling tiny stories. You might say it's like a miniature short story writing contest in the form of a card game.

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

Amphibians (1996)

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Get ready for “toad-al” fun with Bill Nye and the “Amphibians” episode. Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (worm-like animals that have backbones) are all amphibians, animals that spend part of their lives in water and part on land. Amphibians are slimy. Amphibians are cold-blooded that means their body temperature changes with the temperature outside.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Amphibians

Simple Machines (1993)

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Learning about science can be hard work, but simple machines can make it easier. Let Bill Nye push and pull you around ramps, levers, screws, and pulleys.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Simple Machines

A Cry in the Wild

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Based on Gary Paulsen's award-winning book, Hatchet, this adventure finds young Brian Robeson stranded in the wilderness where he must use his wits to survive. Stars Jared Rushton, Ned Beatty, Pamela Sue Martin.

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Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
01:22
A Cry in the Wild

How to Write a Report and Personal Letter (2002)

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Students learn that writing is a process that involves at least four steps; prewriting, drafting, revising and editing. They understand that the writing process helps them write clear, thoughtful pieces that communicate their ideas to others in a clear and concise manner.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:14
How to Write a Report and Personal Letter

Rules of Punctuation (2002)

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Using good punctuation helps us write clearly, makes our writing easier to read, and helps our readers understand what we mean. Exciting graphics and video footage combine with the rules of punctuation as students learn about period usage, the exclamation point, question marks, commas, the apostrophe, quotation marks, the colon, semicolon, and parentheses.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:15
Rules of Punctuation

Eight Parts of Speech (2002)

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Students understand that learning the eight parts of speech helps people to know the function of words, and how they are joined together to make coherent sentences. They will be introduced to the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection. They will also realize that depending on its use the same word can represent a different part of speech.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:15
Eight Parts of Speech

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