“There are always two sides of a story. Unfortunately, when it comes to the history of Thanksgiving, generations of Americans have been taught a one-sided history in homes and schools.”
Learn math and get immersed in the Native American history of the Plains Indians with the games listed below:
1. Fish Lake
Get Fish Lake for Windows, Mac or iPad
Math: Fractions
History: Ojibwe (Chippewa) History, Plains Indians
In Fish Lake, players practice with Fractions while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also be introduced to Native American history. Watch out for poisonous snakes! Canoe through the rapids. Find enough food for your village’s survival. Figure out “what’s fair.” Who knew you could get this excited about fractions? Recommended for grades 4 and up.
Plays on Windows, Mac and iPad
2. Making Camp Ojibwe
Math: Multiplication and Division
History: Ojibwe (Chippewa) , Plains Indians
In Making Camp Ojibwe, players practice multiplication and division skills while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also be introduced to Native American history. Earn points by solving math problems and answering social studies questions in the village-building simulation game.
Plays on Windows, Mac, Chrome, iPad, Android
3. Making Camp: Lakota
Math: Division
History: Lakota , Plains Indians
In Lakota and English
4. Making Camp: PREMIUM!
Math: Multiplication and Division
History: Ojibwe (Chippewa) , Plains Indians
English: Idioms, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homophones
5. Spirit Lake
Math: Multiplication and Division
History: Dakota (Sioux) History, Plains Native Americans
Learn Multiplication and Division from a 3-D Adventure Game set in Native American History
In Spirit Lake: The Game, players learn how to solve multiplication, division and geometry through word problems set in the context of a stories based on the history and culture of the Dakota people. Save your tribe from attacks and a spreading epidemic by solving math problems while escaping rabid wolves and hunting buffalo. Math has never been this fun!
6. Spirit Lake Beginnings – Lakota
Recommended Grades 3-5
Math: Multiplication and Division
History: Lakota History, Plains Native Americans
Created with the Thunder Valley Community Development Corp., Spirit Lake Beginnings – Lakota is fully English/Lakota bilingual, cross-curricular math video game. It can be played in English or Lakota. Whether you are a Lakota speaker, a Lakota language learner or hearing Lakota for the very first time, Spirit Lake Beginnings – Lakota has something for you!
7. Making Camp: Dakota – Past & Present
Recommended Grades 4-6
Math: Division
History: Dakota History
Making Camp: Dakota – Past & Present draws from game design workshops conducted with youth from the Upper Sioux Community (Minnesota) and Spirit Lake (North Dakota). The game combines both math and Dakota culture, both traditional and contemporary, by leveraging oral storytelling and teaching standards-aligned advanced division skills. The game is recommended for students in Grade 4-6.
8. Making Camp Navajo
Recommended for Grades 7-8
Math: Ratio and Proportion
History: Navajo
In the latest installment of our Making Camp series, players practice ratio and proportion as it relates to everything from making blue corn mush to planting corn to rug weaving. They’ll also be introduced to Navajo history.
Customize your virtual hogan, a traditional dwelling, by earning money solving math problems and exploring social studies in this village-building simulation game.