Educational U.S. Social Studies Board Games for 4-6 graders

[bookworm]

I'm looking for recommendations on US History, Social Studies Topics, and/or Geography board games that would align with NY state standards for grades 4-6.

Does anyone have one that they could recommend or have a catalgogue that they could recommend. I have very small class sizes of 2-3 students at a time, and teach 3rd through 8th grades in New York state.

Thanks!

[Senorita Daniels]

Game of the states. My dad has one from when he was a kid, and he taught my sister and me how to play. It has the states, their capitals, and three products from each state. Each player has 4 disks and one truck. (Alaska and Hawaii weren't states when his was made, so maybe they have planes now.) First, you have to pull a card with a state name and information from the stack to see where you put the disks and vehicles. Then, you need to take four of the other's disks to another state. You find out which state to take them to by pulling another card from the stack. There's also money involved, buying and selling back the loads, so they can have some math practice at the same time.

[bookworm]

Thanks that sounds like a great way to combine geography and math skills.

Since I last wrote, I have talked to a local teacher and found out a great website for these kind of games. It's linguisystems.com. They are orientated towards speech pathologists, but their products would work well with ELLs. They have a game called US History that has trivial pursuit type cards that combine reading comprehension (in the questions) with history facts knowledge.

Thanks!