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Put it on the board and play together. Pause to let the class predict, talk it over, and decide each move.
Whole class · on the board
Games, stories and hands-on explainers your class can play together. Each one teaches one big idea.
How teachers use these activities
Put it on the board and play together. Pause to let the class predict, talk it over, and decide each move.
Whole class · on the board
Copy the student link from any activity page. Students open it on a laptop or tablet, no account needed, and play at their own pace.
Centers · one device each
Use it to open a unit, check understanding mid-lesson, or anchor a project. Students can keep tinkering at home with the student link.
Lessons & projects · class or home

Tap a painted scene on the projector and it breathes with your class, with soft music and one calm voice. A one-, two- or three-minute routine students can learn to use on their own.
SkillCalming tools: slow breathing, the sighing breath, squeeze and let go, listening
SEL · K–12 · 2 min

The same 25 ballots, counted three ways, crown three different winners: Apple slices, then Granola bars, then Popcorn. Then your class agrees on a rule and votes for real.
SkillHow counting rules change who wins
Social Studies · Grades 4–8 · 12 min
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Tap any state on a U.S. map for five slides (where it is, capital and biggest city, its land, one place, quick facts), then practice with Find the State and Capital Cities by region or all 50.
SkillLocating states and naming their capitals
Social Studies · Grades 3–5 · 5 min
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Friends offer a vape, medicine that isn't yours and (grades 6–8) pills and a party dare. Students pick what to say, see realistic reactions, discover that most middle schoolers don't vape, and see telling an adult as getting help.
SkillRefusal skills and norm correction
SEL · Grades 5–8 · 5 min
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Students roll a painted wheel and lay its diameter along the trail it leaves: three fit, plus the same little bit on every wheel. That number is pi, and they use it to predict the next wheel's trip with C = π × d.
SkillPi as a ratio, and the circumference formula
Math · Grade 7 · 8 min
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A true history book in 21 short pages: why John White couldn’t get back to Roanoke, what he found carved on a post, and what we can and can’t say about what happened.
SkillUsing evidence to explain what happened in the past
Social Studies · Grades 4–5 · 18 min
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Cover Farmer June’s festival plots with squares, count them by rows, then picture the rows from the sides.
SkillArea as rows of square units
Math · Grade 3 · 15 min
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A mean photo of a classmate lands in the class group chat. Make three choices, see how far it spreads, then practice reporting it and asking an adult for help.
SkillBeing an upstander when a post goes around
SEL · Grades 6–8 · 10 min
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Students cut a whole into equal pieces and lay track along a number line, so 3/4 stops being “3 out of 4 slices” and becomes a place on the line.
SkillFractions as numbers on the number line
Math · Grades 3–5 · 13 min
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Students read Nan’s notes on their own (“Hop in the tub.”) and make Pip do them to relight the lighthouse.
SkillDecoding short-vowel words
English Language Arts · K–1 · 7 min
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Spot ladybugs in a flash, hop frogs between two ponds, and find the snails hiding under a leaf.
SkillTaking numbers apart to 5
Math · Pre-K–K · 10 min
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Drag the Moon around Earth and set the clock until the telescope matches a film director’s sketch.
SkillWhy the Moon has phases
Science & Engineering · Grades 6–8 · 14 min
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Kit has a tricky day. Build what Kit says from word tiles, see how it lands, then rewind and try another way.
SkillSaying the problem and what you need
SEL · Grades 2–3 · 12 min
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Draw five districts around the same 25 voters and watch the seats flip, while the vote stays 15 to 10.
SkillHow district lines decide House seats
Social Studies · Grades 9–12 · 12 min
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