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World Map Sigma
World Map Sigma is an interactive geography activity where students color, label, and annotate a blank world map using creative tools and movable stamps. The activity helps learners identify continents and oceans, place correct labels, and customize their map with symbols, text, and artistic elements. By combining creativity with geographic accuracy, World Map Sigma promotes both spatial understanding and visual learning. |
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Navigation Master
Navigation Master is an interactive world-map activity where students analyze routes between two randomly selected global cities on different continents. Using a draggable and rotatable map-scale tool, they estimate both the direction and great-circle distance of the straight path between the cities. After submitting their answers, students receive an instant report card grading their directional accuracy and distance estimation, helping them build real geographic reasoning and navigation skills. |
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The Gourmet Galleon
In this creative writing and history activity, students design their own Age of Exploration “sailor menu,” choosing historically accurate foods like hardtack and salt beef plus setting prices and descriptions. An alliteration helper encourages them to craft playful, descriptive entree names (like “Rancid Rats” or “Salty Sawdust Stew”) while they customize fonts, colors, and cover icons. When finished, they can print a full menu with a bold cover and optional customer reviews page that showcase both their content knowledge and language skills. |
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Make Your Own Pirate License (Letter of Marque)
Students design their own “Letter of Marque” pirate license by building a custom pirate portrait, flag, and parrot using draggable stamps, drawing tools, colors, textures, and symbols. They then create a pirate identity by choosing a pirate name, naming their ship and parrot, writing mission orders, and signing with a real signature pad. When they’re finished, students can save or print a polished, landscape license as a keepsake or assessment artifact. |
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Continents and Oceans
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. |
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International Pizza Delivery
In International Pizza Delivery, users must deliver pizzas to all corners of the world using their latitude and longitude skills. The object is to deliver 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. |
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Explorers Timeline
This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order Age of Exploration events along the timeline. Very fun, but very challenging. |
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Sea Monster Shuffle
In Sea Monster Shuffle, students choose a sea monster and race it toward an exploration ship by answering multiple-choice questions about the Age of Exploration. Each correct answer pulls their monster closer to the ship, while wrong or timed-out answers give the rival monsters a chance to surge ahead. When a monster reaches the ship, an animated sinking scene plays, and students receive a detailed score report showing their accuracy and which questions they missed. |
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Interactive World Map and World Map Games
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! |
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Conquer the Continents
This game tests the number of nations can you identify from the chosen continent in 60 seconds. Fast and easy!
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Cardinal Directions
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. |
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Explorers Interactive Word Search
This is an online word search with the names of famous explorers. Choose with or without a timer.
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Place Value Pirates
n Place Value Pirates, students must use their place value skills to dispatch of the wretched pirate Sir Francis Place Value and his horrible band of place value pirates! Simply read the prompt that appears at the top of the game and click or touch the pirate with the number that matches the prompt. For example, a prompt might read ""7" in the thousands place. Scan the pirates and dispatch of the one with the number that contains a "7" in the thousands place. The game consists of five rounds; each round more challenging the last. For computer versions, users can earn codes after each round so they never have to start all over again. In addition, the game can be played with or without decimals. |
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Decimals of the Caribbean
You play the role of a 17th century Caribbean Buccaneer who sails from port to port looking to steal from Spanish treasure ships. Read the decimal message that appears at the top of the screen. Then, shoot the boat that matches the decimal message (that has the numerical version of the message) with your decimal cannonball by clicking on it. You move from round to round by destroying all of the ships. After each round you successfully pass, you can obtain a special code that will take you to that round each time you play. Decimals of the Caribbean hits multiple Common Core standards as it can be played with or without decimals. Yes —- there is a version of DECIMALS of the Caribbean without decimals : )
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Columbus Online Paralaugh
This activity functions like an online mad lib. Students must add parts of speech to create a hilarious story.
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Scavenger Hunts
For Use with Legends, Myths, and Destinations Exhibit (Click here)
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Correct-me Passages
These fun activity requires students to correct a passage about an explorer that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
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Mt. Explorer
This fun explorers activity requires students to construct a "Mt. Rushmore" of four explorers and to justify why they chose the explorers. The "heads" of ten different famous explorers or included and students simply cut them out to form the Mt. Rushmore. |
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The Sick Ship
This activity explains common diseases that sailors contracted such as scurvy, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, and others. It then requires students to play the role of a ship doctor and to diagnose sick sailors based on their symptoms.
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Imagining Mythical Kingdoms
Based on the Iroquoian explanation of the Kingdom of Saguenay to Jacques Cartier, students must describe and draw the greatest mythical place they have ever experienced in a book, movie, or video game! Very fun and engaging. |
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Letter of Marque
This activity allows students to create their own "pirate license" or letter of marque, where they can make their own pirate version of themselves, pirate flag, pirate parrot, ship, and much more! |
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Designing a Pirate Mascot
This fun activity discusses pirate-themed mascots in sports and then challenges students to design a new pirate logo on a football helmet. This activity will activate imagination and creativity. |
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Pirate Vocabulary
This activity requires students to match the pirate-themed word with its definition. |
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The Long Lost Image of Sacagawea
Did you know that there are no known drawings of depictions of Sacagawea? All of the images you see of her today are simply guesses. This activity shows three different depictions of Sacagawea and challenges students to author their own "authentic" sketch of Sacagawea. |