Learning Studio
Choose a Massachusetts investigation. Work alone or with a partner, take turns with the controls, and use evidence to explain what you discover.
Mapmaker’s workshop
Measure, locate & explainBuild a route between real places. Compare straight-line distance with a journey on roads or water.
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Maps across time
Compare two sourcesChoose actual maps, inspect their dates, and compare what their makers included.
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Time detectives
Sequence & connectMove event cards, check their order, and build a timeline with your own evidence.
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Evidence workbench
Observe, infer & questionInvestigate an engraving, a voyage map, or a museum object. Mark details and sort claims.
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Town meeting challenge
Decide & justifyAllocate a fictional island town’s limited tokens, hear concerns, revise, and hold a class vote.
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Island supply lab
Predict, test & reviseChange arrivals, capacity, and delays. Watch a simplified harbor queue change over time.
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History story studio
Create with sourcesBuild a three-panel photo story or comic. Separate documented facts from imagined dialogue.
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Our evidence board
Discuss & curateSort a shared-device collection of observations, questions, and supported claims.
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Virtual field notebook
Visit, notice & connectExplore Massachusetts places through official virtual visits and image-based island stops.
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Real source or invented story?
Check before believingInvestigate a generated illustration, a real historical print, and a fictional interview claim.
Open activity →Island voices studio
Listen & documentPlan an interview, record with permission, and explain what one memory can and cannot tell us.
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Build a meeting place
Design, test & improveArrange a model room. Test whether a route connects the entrance to the meeting table.
Open activity →Massachusetts word explorer
Find & explainFind geography and history words, then connect each one to a local example.
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Rules & patterns playground
Program, predict & testExplore screen adaptations of programmable blocks, beads, balls, and badges.
Open activity →Thinking organizer
Connect ideas with evidenceBuild a comparison, cause-and-effect chain, or claim-and-evidence organizer.
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My learning notebook
Reflect & show evidenceKeep a claim, a source, and an explanation. Export your work or print it to share with your teacher.
Open activity →Built-in activities work without a student account. Work stays in this browser session until you choose to save or download it. Outside websites have their own access requirements.
Investigate with an interactive
You Are the HistorianPlymouth & Patuxet
Atlascope: Boston then and nowExploration & maps
Historiscope: a moving picture storyRevolution