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Educational Games

The games on this website are intended to be fun and to test and expand your knowledge.  Hopefully, you will use this website, and the links provided to other websites, to do additional research about factoids in the games that you are new and interesting to you.

 

There are three different types of games:

She Rules! Game

Unlike most games, in the She Rules! game, players are given the answers and have to determine the questions.  The game can be used in classrooms or played by one person.

 

She Rules! - Firsts for Women in Government game <--- Click on the link to get the game.  Click "open" to open the zip folder and then double click the file and the game will begin automatically.  To end the game play and exit the game, press the Escape (ESC) key on the upper left corner of the keyboard.

 

She Rules! - Women Political Leaders game <--- Click on the link to get the game.

 

This version of the requires the Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007 viewer.  The viewer can be downloaded for free here: www.microsoft.com.

 

She Rules! Instructions <--- Click on the link to get the instructions in a PDF format that can be saved or printed.  These instructions are also included in the game itself.

 

 

She Rules! - Firsts for Women in Government game 2003 <--- Click on the link to get the game using Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003.  This version will be slower to download than the version above in Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007.

 

She Rules! - Women Political Leaders game 2003 <--- Click on the link to get the game using Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003. 

 

 

Don't Cross Her! - Crossword Puzzles

 

Test your knowledge by clicking the links below for the online crossword puzzles:  

 

Firsts for Women in Government online crossword puzzle

 

Women Governors online crossword puzzle

 

Or, if you prefer to do crossword puzzles with pencil and paper, download the PDF versions:

 

Firsts for Women in Government PDF crossword puzzle

 

Women Governors PDF crossword puzzle

 

Solutions to the crossword puzzles:

 

Firsts for Women in Government PDF solutions

 

Women Governors PDF solutions

 

 

What's Her Story? Game

 

Play the What's Her Story? game. This game is being introduced in commemoration of Women's Equality Day, August 26 – the day in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the US Constitution, giving women across the US the right to vote. 

 

What's Her Story? game  <--- Click on the link to get a prototype of the game.  Click "open" to open the zip folder and then double click the file and the game will begin automatically.  To end the game play and exit the game, press the Escape (ESC) key on the upper left corner of the keyboard.

 

This prototype requires the Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007 viewer.  The viewer can be downloaded for free here: www.microsoft.com.

 

What's Her Story? game 2003  <--- Click on the link to get a prototype of the game using Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003.  This version will be slower to start up than the version above in Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007.

 

 

 

 

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Equal Representation –The Essence of Democracy                       Updated 2009-02-21