Middle

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.

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.

The Resistance: Avalon

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The Resistance: Avalon pits the forces of Good and Evil in a battle to control the future of civilization. Arthur represents the future of Britain, a promise of prosperity and honor, yet hidden among his brave warriors are Mordred's unscrupulous minions.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
The Resistance: Avalon

Linko!

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In Linko! (a.k.a. Abluxxen), you take turns playing number cards, and the more cards of the same number you play, the better as cards score points at the end of the game. If someone else plays the same amount of cards with a higher number, however, your cards get nicked!

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
25 min.
Linko!

Mascarade

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Players in Mascarade start with six coins and a randomly dealt character card. Characters stay face up just long enough for players to more or less memorize them, then are turned face down.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Other
Play Time: 
30 min.
Mascarade

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!

Piece o Cake

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Everyone knows the cake rules: one person cuts,the other chooses. In this way, one makes the slices as equal as possible so that one does not end up with the short end.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Family/Consumer Science
Play Time: 
20 min.
Piece o Cake

Freak the Mighty

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Meet Maxwell Kane, narrator of Freak the Mighty. He's a timid soul stuck in the body of a teenage giant with size 14 shoes. Haunted by a dark secret in his past, he hides out in his basement room, avoiding the world. But when a new kid moves in next door, Max's life changes forever. The two outcasts from the "normal" world team up to become "Freak the Mighty".

Author: 
Rodman Philbrick
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
1000L
Length: 
03:16
Freak the Mighty

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

Hanabi

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Hanabi — named for the Japanese word for "fireworks" — is a cooperative game in which players try to create the perfect fireworks show by placing the cards on the table in the right order. (In Japanese, hanabi is written as 花火; these are the ideograms flower and fire, respectively.)

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Science
Business/Technology
Play Time: 
25 min.
Hanabi

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