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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Unabridged)

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Fire, water, air, earth - our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education.

Author:

Michael Pollan

Grade Level:

High

Length:

13:26

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Unabridged)

Imperial

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Europe in the age of imperialism. International investors try to achieve the greatest influence in Europe. With their bonds, they control the politics of the six imperial nations: Austria-Hungary, Italy, France, Great Britain, the German Empire, and Russia.

Grade Level:

High

Content Area:

Social Studies

Play Time:

120 min.

Evolution

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In Evolution, players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect your species from Carnivores, while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Science

Play Time:

60 min.

Ricochet Robots

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Ricochet Robots is less of a game and more of a puzzle, which explains why there's such an odd number of solutions possible. There's a four-piece modular board that forms a large room with walls spread around the board. There are also color-coded targets on boards.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

Math

Science

Business/Technology

Play Time:

25 min.

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.

The Boy on the Wooden Box

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Copies: 7

Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers...

Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home.

Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third Reich wanted him, and every other Jew in Europe, dead.

Author:

Leon Leyson

Lexile:

1000L

The Wrecks Factor

In this maths game you are the chief of rescue operations for the Bermuda Rectangle. Your task is to protect the ships crossing this notorious body of water, keeping watch for any vessels that fall prey to its strange and terrifying phenomena.

Stricken ships will transmit their search area coordinates encoded as a quadratic expression. You must decipher the code before the ship sinks, and dispatch a rescue chopper to locate life rafts and save the crew. It’s a tough job but we know you can handle it, Chief!

A Tangled Web

In this math game you control a tiny robotic spider named Itzi, who lives with his family at the top of a strange old grandfather clock.

Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

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Copies: 7

On a sunny day in Dallas, Texas, at the end of a campaign trip, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated by an angry, lonely drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes briefly, but is hunted down, captured, and then shot dead while in police custody.

Author:

Bill O'Riley

Lexile:

1050L

Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

Foldit

Foldit is a game designed to tackle the problem of protein folding. Proteins are small “machines” within our bodies that handle practically all functions of living organisms. By knowing more about the 3D structure of proteins (or how they “fold”), we can better understand their function, and we can also get a better idea of how to combat diseases, create vaccines, and even find novel biofuels.

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