On the website Life in the Iron Age, kids travel back to prehistoric time to find out how people in the Iron Age made fire, ground grain, baked bread, and spun wool. Kids learn how archaeologists use artifacts they find in digs to figure out how people used to live. Life in the Iron Age [...]
On the interactive website Death in Rome, kids learn about ancient Rome as they investigate how Tiberius Claudius Eutychus died. You must hurry to find clues at the scene, interrogate witnesses, and consult with experts. Decide how you should spend your time, because you only have until dawn to solve the case. This educational website [...]
Kids help make the decisions on Lewis and Clark’s westward journey on National Geographic’s educational game Go West. Travel back to 1804 and join Lewis and Clark on an adventure to explore unknown areas of America. President Jefferson has asked your expedition to map the rivers, make friends with Native Americans, open the West [...]
On the interactive educational website Peace Corp Challenge, kids learn about what it is like to be a Peace Corp volunteer. Help local villagers and Peace Corps members solve eight different challenges in the fictional village Wanzuzu: water contamination, sanitation and disease, microfinance, barren fields, malaria, soil erosion, education of girls, and agroforestry. This simulation [...]
On the educational website USA States Game, kids place each US state on a blank map. Does that sound easy? Well, it isn’t! There are no outlines for where the states go, so you need to use rivers, the US borders, and latitude and longitude lines to help guide you. See [...]
Kids can make the decisions about colonizing America on the educational website Jamestown Online Adventure. Where do you want your settlement to be? Will you trade with the Native Americans or fight them? Do you want to build a town or a fort? Will your settlers search for gold or food? [...]
On the interactive educational website Pyramid Challenge kids learn about Ancient Egypt while they try to build a pyramid before their king dies. As vizier, you are responsible for managing all of the important things in your land. Building a pyramid for the pharaoh before he dies is your most important job. [...]
Kids can be archaeologists exploring an old sunken ship on the website Sunken Ship’s Tale. Find the answers to these questions: What ship is it? How old is the ship? Where is it from? What was it doing on the St. Lawrence River? The ghosts of the crew will [...]
On the Roman Mysteries educational website, kids learn about life in Ancient Rome as they help Jonathan, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus solve 5 interactive mysteries: The Ring of Stabia, The Apothecary of Ostia, The Theif of Laurentum, The Mule of Surrentum, and the Orb of Augustus. To solve the mysteries you will search for [...]
On the website If You Were President kids pick advisors and decide how to balance the national budget. First, pick 3 advisors out of the 5 choices. Next, choose what percentage of the budget to spend on education, environment, military, health care, and crime prevention. Lastly, explain why you picked the 3 [...]
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