Upcoming Labs
- Making History
- Its Your Business
- Inventing The Future
- Add-in Activity Packs
- Simulations for history classes (ages 10+)
- Illustrates the economic and civic issues leaders faced in each time period in history
- Simulations in launching a small business
- Teaches fundamentals of economics and business management in the modern world
- Simulations of problems and solutions from the near- and distant future
- Teaches how organizations (governments, businesses, NGO's, ...) organize their efforts to solve real-world problems (poverty, transportation, global warming, disease,...)
- Age-specific topical worksheets to develop student skills
- Aligned with National and State Standards
- Supports personalized learning sequences
THE PALEOLITHIC AGE
Teams represent bands of early humans and choose how to divide their time between hunting, gathering, migrating, resting, celebrating and improving their technology in order to maximize the size and health of their band.
THE MESOLITHIC AGE
Teams represent large tribes that experience limits on their ability to expand and migrate so they must choose how to divide their time between farming and other activities in order to survive as their population strains the capacity of natural resources.
THE NEOLITHIC AGE
Teams manage the transition to farming to allow for substantially more people to live on the same land area.
The Ancient World
Teams manage the transition from small communities to large cities as surplus food from farming allows specialization of crafts, leadership and military.
The Early Classical Age
Teams continue to manage city-states and engage in trade that allows them to focus on products for which they have an advantage in exchange for products from other teams for which the other team has an advantage.
The Late Classical Age
Teams manage the transition from city-state to empire as technical improvements and needs for defense favors large, centralized states.
The Dark Ages
Teams manage communities that struggle with the disruption to the earlier order and must find a path through a time of crisis.
The Late Middle Ages
Teams find the right set of laws that allow their kingdom to prosper.
The Renaissance
Teams establish a basic financial institution to fund large scale enterprises.
The Enlightenment
Teams compete to establish the basic tenents of the Scientific Method in order to create new products, techniques, and ideas in governance.
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Teams exploit new ideas in science, use of energy and economics to create new types of businesses and products.
The Early Modern Age
Teams use new discoveries in Electricity and Communications to exploit the time value of information and to coordinate activities over much much greater distances.
The Early 20th Century
Teams form coalitions to ensure that the worst aspects of Nationalism can be defeated.
The Late Modern World
Teams use automation to increase worker productivity to greatly increase the number of products that they can offer while reducing their cost.
The Post Modern World
Teams create substantial additional wealth but struggle with inequality resulting from the effects of a technology amplified market.
Sustaining the Near Future
Teams find solutions to environmental degradation while recognizing economic and political constraints.
Health in the Near Future
Teams find solutions to health, resilience, and bio-engineering risks while recognizing economic and political constraints.
wealth in the Near Future
Teams find solutions to poverty and economic injustice that also address other economic and political constraints.
technology in the Near Future
Teams find solutions to run-away technology and its unintended consequences while recognizing economic and political constraints.
Inventing the Future
Teams work in various types of organizational structures to address challenges in the near and distant future.
ELECTRIC SKATEBOARD COMPANY
Teams find best sequence of product improvements, advertising and cost reduction activities to maximize company growth over a 5 year period.
TEE-SHIRT FACTORY
Teams develop advertising and market outreach activities to maximize company growth over a 3 year period.
Specialty Food Truck
Teams review sales data to find the best menu to offer and locations to visit in their specialty Food Truck business.
Home Improvement Business
Teams find the best sequence of tool purchases, advertising, and customer retention activities to maximize company growth over a 5 year period.
Web Software Company
Teams choose best sequence of customer projects and relationships with developers to build a profitable Web Software Company.
Outdoor Tours and Event Hosting
Teams develop Tour Packages and Special Events to help people engage with Nature and understand how to Help in its protection.
Epidemics
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Energy
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Environment
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bio-engineering
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Nanotechnology
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sustainability
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peace
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Space Exploration
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Entertainment
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governance
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Ethics and Values
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Freedom and Safety
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Individuals and communities
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Math: Ratios and Percentages
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Math: simultaneous equations with more than one variable
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Math: Estimation and prediction
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Science: Energy and its types
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Science: Property of materials
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Engineering: Electricity
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Engineering: Statics
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Engineering: Dynamics
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Micro-Economics: Business Basics
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Micro-Economics: Cost, Price, Revenue, and Profit
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Accounting: Managerial Accounting
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Psychology: Consumer Behavior
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Business Principles of team management
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Business Principles of contract management
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