Today we’ve got about a third of the Grade 11s out on some extra curricular activity or other. It’s one of those days where you’re not eager to keep going with your regular lessons, but you don’t want to quit working because if you do most of the remaining kids will skip next time. What do you do?

As a history teacher I’ve got my backup list of Canadian game websites. Some are just kind of silly, some are just kind of fun, but they’re all educational in one way or another. Admittedly, some do little more than work on where the various Canadian provinces are, but even in Grade 11 that seems to need some reinforcement.

You wouldn’t expect “sophisticated” Grade 11s to get into kids educational history games, but they do.