Empathy

The Extraordinaires Design Studio

Icon:

The Extraordinaires Design Studio is the creative thinking game for problem solvers ages 8 to 108. If you've ever wondered what it's like to invent a music player for a robot, a remote control for a pirate, or cooking utensil for a vampire teen, this is definitely the game for you.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Content Area:

ELA

Fine Arts

Family/Consumer Science

Business/Technology

Play Time:

20 min.

Friends and Neighbors: The Helping Game

Icon:

A Social-Emotional Game that Develops Empathy and Compassion! Can players help a little girl who's sad because she's standing out in the rain or a boy who's afraid of the dark? With Friends and Neighbors children will learn how! Friends and Neighbors is a matching game that focuses on emotions.

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

10 min.

Sherlock Kids

Icon:

Time and time again precious paintings keep disappearing in the art museum. And each time a mysterious envelope with a picture riddle is left behind. Fortunately the Sherlock Kids are there to put a stop to the bold thief's game.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Content Area:

Special Education

ELA

Fine Arts

Play Time:

20 min.

Amazing Kids of Character Series (2008)

Icon:

This uplifting five-part series highlights crucial cornerstones of character courage, empathy, perseverance, respect and responsibility by showing real kids who achieved amazing results for themselves and their communities. Each character trait is represented with three different profiles of truly amazing kids and hosted by a diverse, multiethnic group of students from around the country.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:52

Diary of a Spider

Icon:

In this witty and entertaining story, students will discover that the life of a spider isn’t very much different from their own.

Author:

Doreen Cronin

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:09

Dixit Jinx

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 Odyssey

Icon:

Dixit is a visually stunning game that rewards creativity, imagination and empathy. In Dixit, each player has a hand of beautifully illustrated cards that are evocative of fairy tales, surrealistic painting and dream imagery.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Content Area:

ELA

Fine Arts

Special Education

Play Time:

30 min.