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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an archaeologist like Indiana Jones and I dreamed about being on Nickelodeon’s Legends of the Hidden Temple. Sadly, I’m not currently exploring foreign lands for ancient artifacts and getting chased by Nazis, nor did I ever get the chance to be a Blue Barracuda. But with National Geographic’s Explore a Pyramid, your students can have the opportunities that I never did, and learn while doing it!

With this fun and educational game, your students can coast through an ancient pyramid using a robot to search for hieroglyphic clues. Once they find the hieroglyphic in each room, they can access the secret room to see mummies and other neat stuff. It’s a great way to start a lesson on Egyptian history and to discuss the significance of pyramids and hieroglyphics.

And after your students get to scope out some mummies, they can move on to find shrunken treasure, explore Mars, or even learn about helping animals with other map games on the National Geographic’s My Wonderful World Web site.

These games are fun, engaging and most of all, educational. And if your aspirations were the same as mine growing up, you can live vicariously through your students! Everyone wins! -LAUREN FROHNE

Explore a Pyramid
My Wonderful World

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