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Welcome to the Bozeman Trail! We’re excited to share this game with everyone. A really cool fact about the Bozeman Trail game is that it comes from an existing board game by Elephanta Education. Working on the Bozeman Trail game was very exciting because of the fact mentioned above, it […]

Welcome to the Bozeman Trail

October 27, 2023 in Educational Games / History tagged Bozeman Trail / Educational Games / history by Diana Sanchez

The Bozeman Trail is a game within the BRAVE series: a game-based, cross-curricular approach to social studies that engages & inspires students to push the boundaries of who they are. What began as a single board game over a decade ago has evolved into something more insightful with every go. […]

Turning School Into a Piece of Cake

October 19, 2023 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / History tagged Bozeman Trail / Educational Games by admin

National Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of November. Here are some fun activities that your K-12 students can participate in all year.

Native American Heritage Month Activities for Students

November 23, 2022 in 7GenGames / blogposts / Cultural content / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / History / Holiday / Newsletter / powwow / Remote Education / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade tagged 7 Generation Games / Native American culture / Native American heritage month / Native American Language Games / Native American Resources by Christy Hanson

Most of the time, words like “studying” and “vacations”, can sound like complete antonyms. In general, studying at a school can be exhausting, to the point that can become stressful for kids. However, studying by itself may not be as stressful as studying while at school, where kids must past […]

Why is it good to learn during vacations?

March 15, 2022 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / blogposts / Cultural content / division / Educational Games / ESL / fractions / History / Math / Mathematics / multiplication / Newsletter / Remote Education / rural education / Special Education / Uncategorized tagged Bilingual Games / Holiday / Holidays / learning at home / learning loss / Spring Break / summer learning / summer slide / summer vacation by Maria Paz Jorquera

Making Camp Lakota — We updated Making Camp Lakota. Prepare your kids to beat summer learning loss with this free game!

Prevent Summer Learning Loss with Making Camp Lakota!

March 10, 2022 in 7GenGames / Bilingual Education / blogposts / Cultural content / Division / Educational Games / Game Progress / History / Math / multiplication / Newsletter / rural education tagged Bilingual / Bilingual Education / Bilingual Game / division / division game / elementary education / game update / lakota / Lakota language / Making Camp Lakota / multiplication game by Christy Hanson

Welcome to the 7 Generation Games and Growing Math Fall 2021 Art Contest Gallery! Here, you can view all the submissions from the contest participants. The theme for the art contest is Native American Heritage Month. Contestants' grade levels range from 2nd to 8th grade.

Students Illustrate Indigenous Culture in the Growing Math Art Contest-Winners ...

December 1, 2021 in 7GenGames / Art Contest / blogposts / Cultural content / Educational Games / Events / Growing Math / History / Seventh Grade tagged Growing Math / Growing Math art contest / Native American culture / Native American heritage month by Christy Hanson

The Growing Math art contest ends on November 30, 2021.

Fall 2021 Growing Math Art Contest–Extended!

October 28, 2021 in Art Contest / blogposts / Cultural content / Educational Games / Events / History / Newsletter tagged 7 Generation Games / Art / Community / Cultural Content / Events / Free Event / Growing Math / Growing Math art contest / Native American culture / Native American heritage month / November / Outreach / Student Activity by Christy Hanson

She was a notable Native American woman who championed for policy changes and legislation that would allow Native Americans to become citizens in their own country. She also wrote the first Native American opera.

Women’s History Month: Zitkála-Šá

February 22, 2021 in blogposts / Book Club / History / Newsletter tagged international women's day / newsletter / Women's History Month by Christy Hanson

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time for reflection upon civil rights movement of the 1960s. What will you be teaching your students today? Many who aren’t in education are thinking of service work, volunteering through Americorps, or celebrating virtually this year. For students, we have curated some adaptable […]

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 18, 2021 in Educational Resources / History / Newsletter tagged newsletter by Christy Hanson

Here’s a little bit of US history from Southeast Alaska. Today, civil rights activist and Tlingit tribal member Elizabeth Peratrovich was celebrated as a Google Doodle. She was also honored on a new $1 coin from the US Mint earlier in 2020. Peratrovich was a key figure in establishing the […]

Elizabeth Peratrovich

December 30, 2020 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Resources / History / Newsletter tagged newsletter by Christy Hanson

AzTech: The Story Begins - book on desk with picture of Mayan god-king — Combining Mayan history and math, learn about distributions and Mayan trading with these two videos. An adventure game, included, kicks off the AzTech Games series. Bilingual Spanish-English

Social Studies Meets Math in Today’s AzTech Games Lesson

April 1, 2020 in Bilingual Education / History / Math / Mathematics / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade / video tagged Distributions by AnnMaria De Mars

Pyramids are a likely icon on a time line — If you’re a teacher, you probably know that time lines are actually a Social Studies standard, not math. However, that seems like splitting hairs to us. We’re all about teaching math in context and we know from experience that many students struggle with timelines that have dates before the year […]

Lesson Plan: Timelines

September 20, 2019 in Educational Games / History / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade by Daniel Mondaca