Interactive history lessons for grades 6–8

Students learn U.S. history by doing it: survive the first years at Jamestown, set the type for the Declaration, stack the powers of government. Built for middle school classrooms and Chromebooks.

No student accounts

Students open a class link from Google Classroom and start. No logins, emails or passwords.

Runs on school Chromebooks

Everything loads from this one site in the browser. Nothing to install, no ads, no trackers.

Made for social studies class

Each lesson covers a topic in the grades 6–8 U.S. history sequence, plus two world geography challenges.

Thirteen interactive lessons

Every lesson has a free preview. A Classroom Pass unlocks the full versions for your whole class.

Survive Jamestown

Jamestown, 1607–1614Grades 6–8

Make the colonists’ decisions from 1607 to 1614 — where to settle, whether to hunt for gold or plant corn, how to get through the Starving Time — and see whether you live.

Free preview: 5 minutes.

Revolution Rumble

American Revolution, 1776Grades 5–8

Play as John Adams in summer 1776: win colonies in card clashes, defend Bunker Hill, print Common Sense and win the July 2 vote.

Free preview: June 10–17, 1776, through Bunker Hill.

Self-Evident

Declaration of IndependenceGrades 5–8

Set the type for the Declaration of Independence's most famous lines in a 1776 print shop, from key phrases to writing them from memory.

Free preview: Levels I–II.

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How it works

  1. Try a preview. Any lesson can be played free for 5 minutes, so you can see it before your class does.
  2. Get a Classroom Pass. One $10 pass gives you a class code that unlocks all thirteen full lessons. Coming soon
  3. Post one link. Share keystonelessons.org/play?class=YOURCODE in Google Classroom. Students click it and play.