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Geography studies the relationships between earth, its features, and the distribution of life on earth, including the effects of human activity.

Game Theory

Go to Jail. Go Directly to Jail!

This series icebreaker explores the risks of putting yourself into a game by examining the history of the world’s most famous real estate board game, Monopoly! Whereby the United States Trademark & Patent Office awarded two patents to two different entrepreneurs for one very similar idea. Begging the question: does everyone get to pass GO and collect $200?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Context

You Are Not the Center of the Universe

This JAM puts Galileo’s contributions to science and society into historical context by creating one timeline based on multiple sets of cause and effect. Called to testify—guilty or innocent—how in God’s name can one man defend science?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Perspective

Aloutte, Gentille Aloutte

The Doctrine of Discovery is a legal doctrine issued by the Church that gave European monarchs the right to claim foreign lands, provided they weren't inhabited by Christians. Today, the idea of combining Church & State objectives seems odd. This JAM takes pause for perspective, considering what French kings, Catholic priests, voyageurs and coureur des bois held in common with North American First Nations. And what they didn’t.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Change

Nation 2 Nation

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent diplomats to France to purchase its last North American claim. The United States completed the Louisiana Purchase for $15 million, giving it the sole right to buy lands therein. If they were for sale. After all, hundreds of Native nations had occupier rights to that land. But are ancestral claims legal rights?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Conflict

Twelve Knots

Change is inevitable; so is conflict. The good news is that choosing how we engage in conflict could help us shape change in our favor, and without protracted violence. For example, in 1680, 100 years before the 13 colonies’ War for Independence, New Mexico’s Pueblos launched and won their independence from Spain, and with extraordinary consequences.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Pre-Game Booklets For All 10 Jams

Game Theory

Context

Perspective

Change

Conflict

Rights

Cooperation

Connection

Trust

Creativity

Rights

Prod, Poke, or Polk?

If European exploration across North America ushered in an age of written laws and Constitutional government, what lessons can we draw from people or nations that take things that do not belong to them, whether through the barrel of a gun or the power of the purse?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Cooperation

Thank You For Your Prompt Payment

In 1862, the U.S. was at war with itself, with one faction trying to break free from the Union and the other trying not just to preserve it but EXPAND it. At that rate, did the federal government have the money it needed to accomplish its goals? Or were these debts no honest man could pay?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Connection

7 Generations

Scientists believe that at one time there were between 30 and 60 million bison roaming the Great Plains. But what does that have to do with us today? In truth, everything. Past, present, future; connection is everything.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Trust

Trust Responsibility

The Bill of Rights outlines individual rights, while the main body of the Constitution lists how the federal government’s powers and duties are spread across three branches, each designed to balance the other two. Privileges not stated go to the states. Meanwhile, 574 Native nations exist with the United States. Exactly where do they fit into this design?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Creativity

Safe Place

Do you have a favorite place? What do you love about it? How much do you love it? Would you sell it? This JAM aims to define, explore, assess & test the value of place, providing tools that all nations and people can use to protect their safe place.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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