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SOCIAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY GAMES

This section contains dozens of awesome geography, history, and USA-themed games. They are listed by popularity. To sort these by grade level, use the filters on the left. To see video instructions of how to play a game, click on it in the related items slider underneath each game.

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Make your own Timeline Game

Description: This activity allows teachers to make, save, and deploy timeline games to students. Simply fill in the forms, save the activity, copy the code, give it to students, and just like that, they can play the game you made. You can even copy games made by other teachers from the archive.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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International Pizza Delivery - Online Game

Description: In International Pizza Delivery, users must delivery pizzas to all corners of the world using their latitude and longitude skills. The object is to delivery as many pizzas as possible in three minutes. For each successful delivery, the user earns the flag of the nation in which the pizza was delivered to. These flags may be printed out at the end of the game.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Continents and Oceans - Online Game

Description: This fun online game requires students to drag and drop the labels for the seven continents and the five oceans while the Earth is spinning. It is LOTS of fun, however, the game is very particular about where the labels are dropped.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4

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Interactive World Map and World Map Games

Description: This is an incredible map of the world that allows students to explore an interactive map of the world, or, play games testing their knowledge of the nations or waterways of the world. Works on all devices!

Type: Interactive Map or Tour

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Coordinates - Online Game

Description: This awesome game is great for TEACHING latitude and longitude and world geography. In Coordinates, students learn latitude and longitude while learning the locations and names of the world’s nations. First, students are prompted to find the latitude coordinate. Once the latitude coordinate is found, the game locks the latitude position and the longitude lines animate into the map. Finally, students are prompted to find a point of longitude. If the clicked coordinates are close enough to the actual coordinates that they occur in the same nation, the student will have the opportunity to “guess” the name of the nation. If correct, students earn the flag of the nation that appears in the flags panel. Students also have 100 “coordinate points” to work with. If the actual coordinate is 95 degrees west and the student chooses 90 degrees, he or she will lose five coordinate points reducing the total, for example, to 95. The game ends when the student has no coordinate points left.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Make your own Board Game!

Description: This activity allows teachers to make, save, and deploy digital board games to students. Make your board, choose board design, and add special squares, questions, and answers. The more questions you add, the better the game. Copy the code and distribute to students. Students can play on their own, or, with up to six others on the same computer. Check out the teacher archive to access pre-made games.

Type: Math Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Make your own Not-Boring Jeopardy Game

Description: This activity allows teachers to make, save, and deploy Not-boring Jeopardy games to students. It takes some time to create, but when you see how it transforms the classroom with fun and suspense, it will be well worth it. Simply input categories, questions and answers, and save the game. Copy the code and distribute to students so they can play by themselves, or in a small group. You can also break the classroom into teams and play as a class. Check out the teacher archive to access pre-made games

Type: Science Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Latitude Longitude Machine

Description: This awesome application allows students to practice their latitude and longitude skills by using a dynamic point and click world map. It also allows students to test their proficiency in latitude and longitude with a fun game in which students must identify as many coordinate points as possible in one minute.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Collage America

Description: This innovative USA Activity allows students to construct the United States by dragging and dropping the states to the map. States are illustrated with themes relative to each state. Students can choose from three different themes for each state, thereby making each "collage" different.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Collage World - Online

Description: This awesome resource allows students to make online collages featuring a continent of choice and its nations. Great world geography practice and collages print beautifully!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Ms. Information Games - the Constitution

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the National Archives in Washington D.C. to change the history of the Constitution. Use your knowledge of this great document to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Ms. Information Games - Lewis and Clark

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the Missouri River to change the story of the events in the Lewis and Clark expeditionr. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Ms. Information Games - Causes of the Revolutionary War

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to Philadelphia change the story of the events leading to the Revolutionary War. Use your knowledge of these causes to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Ms. Information Games - George Washington

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. to change the story of George Washington's life Use your knowledge of our first president to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Ms. Information Games - Jamestown

Description: Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the Jamestown Village in Virginia to change the story of the colony's early history. Use your knowledge o Jamestown to foil her plan once and for all!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - American Revolution Edition

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the American Revolution.. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - Founding Fathers Edition

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on United States Founding Fathers. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - 13 Colonies Editiion

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on the 13 colonies. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - Presidents Edition

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on United States Presidents. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Not Boring Jeopardy - United States Regions

Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on U.S. regions. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.

Type: Word/Phonics Game

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Halls of History - Online U.S. History Game

Description: Welcome to Halls of History! This game will test your visual knowledge of American history. There are seven sections to the game, five of which cover historical eras until the Civil War, and two of which cover famous people in American history. Click on each image in history to enlarge and inspect and then answer the question associated with it. When you are done with the game, you'll get a percentage score for each section.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Ameriquake - Game

Description: In this game, an "Ameriquake" occurs resulting in the state name becoming jumbled. Students must drag and drop the correct names back to their states. Students can customize the number of state names that become jumbled.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Burnside's Billions

Description: This innovative game requires students to "purchase" as many of the world's most important landmarks as possible with ten billion dollars. Students must purchase by using the game's tools to convert dollars to the native currency. For example, to buy the Eiffel tower, players must convert dollars to euros. The game provides real-time currency exchange rates and has numerous twists and turns. Games can be saved! For more detailed video instructions, check out the Burnside Billion's instructional video.

Type: Math Game - Decimals Focus

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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State Detective - Game

Description: This fun United States game requires students to "guess" the state the computer is "thinking" of by asking it questions about its location and its color. Students get six questions.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Map Scale - Online Game

Description: This fun online game reinforces the concept of map scale by challenging students to determine the distances between major world cities.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Glamour Legends - Online Game

Description: This fun game allows students to dress up George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Tubman, or Christopher Columbus in more modern, or more primitive clothes.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Conquer the States - Game

Description: This fun game challenges students to identify as many states as possible in 60 seconds.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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World Detective - Online Game

Description: In World Detective, students select a continent and the "game" selects a secret country within the chosen continent. The player has six questions to try to guess the selected state. Users must generate "good" questions that allow them to eliminate as many incorrect states as they can per question. Students can ask questions regarding color or relative location. States that are eliminated are grayed out. For example, a good first question might be "is the country east of Germany?" If the answer were to be yes, all of the countries west of Germany would then be greyed out.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Where in the USA is Mr Nussbaum?

Description: This game challenges students to identify the state locations of as many USA Landmarks, Capitals, or Cities as possible in two minutes. Students can choose from the three aforementioned categories.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Cardinal Directions - Online Game

Description: Choose from three different skill levels (left/right, north/east, west, south, or combinations) and see how many commands you can successfully follow in one minute.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Who is Your Founding Father? - Game

Description: In this innovative game, students determine the "Founding Father" by evaluating the accomplishments of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton on a significance scale of 1-10. As students evaluate each accomplishment, the "father" responsible for the accomplishment moves forward. For example, if a statement such as "How significant is it that this person wrote the Declaration Independence?" appears, and the student judges it "9," Thomas Jefferson would move forward nine steps.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Totem Pole Maker - Online

Description: This fun activity allows students to make their own totem poles with associated meanings. Each totem pole has five symbols. These print out beautifully with the totem pole and symbolism descriptions. These take students less than five minutes to complete.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Continental Simon - Online Game

Description: This fun game functions just like the classic game Simon - the only difference is that students must remember the continents that light up rather than colors.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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News City Pizza - Online Game

Description: In this fast-paced game students play the role of a pizza delivery person. The goal is to deliver as many pizzas as possible in five minutes to the specified addresses in the city grid. Be careful! Driving through red lights and crashing into cars results in fines. Watch the demonstration video for more information.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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Tic Tac DOUGH - 13 Colonies Edition

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the 13 colonies. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Tic Tac DOUGH - Presidents Edition

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the presidents. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Tic Tac DOUGH - American Revolution Edition

Description: Modeled after the 1970s game show, TIC TAC Dough requires students to get 1,000 points, or, score "tic" and "tac" by choose a panel between 1-9 and answering multiple choice questions about the Revolutionary War. Behind each panel is a number panel, the word "tic", the word "tac" or the dreaded dragon. If a student picks the panel with the dragon, the game is automatically over - just like the real gameshow.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6

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Conquer the Continents - Online Game

Description: How many nations can you identify from the chosen continent in 60 seconds?

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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American or World History Timeline - the Game!

Description: This fun game challenges students to drag and drop the historical events (with brief descriptions) to their correct places on the timeline. Students must complete three boards successfully to win the game. Each board requires the ordering of eight events. World or U.S. history are available. Each has an easy or hard level.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Explorers Timeline - Online Game

Description: This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order Age of Exploration events along the timeline. Very fun, but very challenging.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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American Revolution Timeline - Online Game

Description: This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order revolutionary war events along the timeline. Easy and Hard levels are available. Very fun, but very challenging.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Landforms Central

Description: This educational game requires students to drag and drop the animated landforms and bodies of water to their correct places on the map of America. Examples include the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the Rocky Mountains and many others.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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State History Rater

Description: This activity allows students to compare and evaluate the histories of up to four states at a time. Students rate the significance of ten historical events for each state on a scale of one to ten (the events are explained). Whichever state has the highest score wins the "race" and has the most important history.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

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Coast to Coast - Game

Description: This games challenges students to make a road trip across America by answering trivia questions about the states they pass through. Perfect for students interested in geography bees.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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The Calendar Game - Online

Description: How well do you know when American holidays occur? You have 1000 days to place as many holidays as you can on the calendar. Drag and drop the events that appear in the upper left hand side of the page to where you think they belong on the calendar. For example, if you drag Christmas to December 29, you’ll earn one event but lose four days. When you are out of days the game ends.

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Magellan Versus Earhart

Description: This is a challenging game that traces the steps that both explorers attempted in their failed circumnavigations. Redeem your chosen explorer by successfully re-tracing his or her steps using your advanced world geography skills. Very challenging!

Type: Social Studies Fun

Format: Game

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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