Featured: Cross-Curricular
Multiplayer & Multi-GradeGames — Student Access
Unit 1: Natural Texas and Its People
Before European ContactInteractive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2A, 7.8A
Texas Geography & Native Peoples Map
An interactive map of Texas that switches between its physical regions and its Native culture groups, with facts on climate, resources, and daily life.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2A, 7.8A
Four Corners Tribe Map
A clickable map of Texas split into four regions to meet the Karankawa, Comanche, Jumano, and Caddo.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2A, 7.9A
Build-a-Home Explorer
Click the parts of a wigwam, teepee, pueblo, and grass house to see how geography shaped shelter.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2A
What's for Dinner?
A drag-and-drop widget matching foods like fish, buffalo, corn, and berries to the right tribe.
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GAMETEKS 7.2A, 7.9A
Survive the Season
A choice game: play a member of one tribe through four seasons, making choices that match real regional life.
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GAMETEKS 7.2A
Tribe Match Challenge
A fast quiz game: match homes, foods, and tools to the correct culture group before time runs out.
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GAMETEKS 7.2A
Follow the Buffalo
A strategy game guiding a Plains band following the buffalo herd and discovering how the Spanish horse changed everything.
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Unit 2: Age of Contact & Spanish Colonial
1519-1821Interactive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2B
Explorers' Routes Map
An interactive map with a 1519-1821 timeline slider tracing Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, and La Salle.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2C
Anatomy of a Mission
Click the parts of a mission and presidio to learn a mission's two jobs: spreading religion and Spanish power.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.2C
Meet the Missionaries
A flip-card widget for Fray Damian Massanet, Antonio Margil de Jesus, and Francisco Hidalgo.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.2B
Cabeza de Vaca's Journey
A survival adventure retracing the explorer's eight-year walk across Texas to reach Mexico alive.
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GAMETEKS 7.2C
Found a Mission
A building game: pick a spot and balance converting, farming, and defending your mission to keep it standing.
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GAMETEKS 7.2B
Claim the Land
A France-versus-Spain strategy game placing forts and missions on the map to lock in a claim to Texas.
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Unit 3: Mexican National & Texas Revolution
1821-1836Interactive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.3A
Road to Revolution Timeline
Click each step that pushed Texas toward war and see how one event led to the next.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.3C
Battle Map of the Revolution
A clickable map of Gonzales, the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto with dates, commanders, and outcomes.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.3B
Voices of the Revolution
Click portraits of Austin, Travis, Houston, Seguin, and Santa Anna, plus Travis's famous letter.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.2E, 7.3A
Empresario
A management game playing Stephen F. Austin bringing families to Texas while tensions grow.
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GAMETEKS 7.3C
Hold the Line: The Alamo
A choice game over the 13-day siege as Travis, learning why the delay helped Houston's army get ready.
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GAMETEKS 7.3C
Remember the Alamo!
A knowledge-battle game answering history questions to power Houston's army toward victory at San Jacinto.
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Unit 4: Republic and Early Statehood
1836-1861Interactive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.4A
Houston vs. Lamar
A compare widget on how Presidents Houston and Lamar handled debt, native policy, education, and annexation.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.4B
Should Texas Join the U.S.?
An interactive pro-and-con board of the annexation debate — debt, war fears, and slavery.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.4C
Border Dispute Map
A map of the Nueces and Rio Grande showing why the two countries disagreed and the treaty's land.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.4A
President of the Republic
A decision game leading the young Republic through money, native relations, and the threat from Mexico.
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GAMETEKS 7.4B
Nation Builder: Debt Crisis
An economy game managing the Republic's huge debt term by term toward annexation.
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GAMETEKS 7.4C
Statehood Showdown
A board-style quiz racing through annexation, the U.S.-Mexican War, and the Compromise of 1850.
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Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction
1861-1876Interactive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.5A, 7.5B
The Back Door of the Confederacy
An interactive map of the Union blockade and the cotton route through Mexico.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.5B
Three Texas Battles
A clickable map of Galveston, Sabine Pass, and Palmito Ranch — including the battle after the war ended.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.5C
After the War
Cards for Juneteenth, the Freedmen's Bureau, Black Codes, and the KKK explaining Reconstruction's changes.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.5A, 7.5B
Run the Blockade
A strategy game shipping Texas cotton past the Union blockade and through Mexico for supplies.
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GAMETEKS 7.5B
Sabine Pass: Against the Odds
A tactics game as Dick Dowling's small group defending Fort Griffin against a much larger force.
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GAMETEKS 7.5C, 7.20D
Reconstruction Reporter
A role game as an 1865-1876 reporter covering Juneteenth and sorting real facts from biased claims.
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Unit 6: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads & The Age of Oil
1876-1920Interactive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.6B, 7.6C
The Cattle Trail
Click north along the cattle trail from Texas to the Kansas railheads and learn cowboy life.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.7A
Spindletop: Anatomy of a Gusher
Click parts of the 1901 Spindletop scene — the derrick, Patillo Higgins, and the boomtown.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.7B
Boom-and-Bust Meter
Slide through the years and watch cattle, cotton, and oil rise and fall to see the boom-and-bust cycle.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.6B
Trail Boss
A cattle-drive game moving your herd north past rivers and rustlers to the railhead.
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GAMETEKS 7.7A, 7.7B
Wildcatter
An oil-boom game drilling wells, striking oil or going bust, and feeling the boom-and-bust cycle.
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GAMETEKS 7.6B, 7.6D
Open Range or Barbed Wire?
A choice game running a ranch as barbed wire spreads and the open range disappears.
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Unit 7: 20th and 21st Century Texas
1920-PresentInteractive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.7E
Texas Through the Decades
A clickable timeline from the 1920s to today — suffrage, the Dust Bowl, WWII, civil rights, NASA, tech.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.7C, 7.7D
Voices for Change
A leaders gallery of Barbara Jordan, James Farmer Jr., Hector P. Garcia, and Minnie Fisher Cunningham.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.7E, 7.9B
Dust Bowl Texas
A before-and-after widget of the Panhandle drought, dust storms, migration, and New Deal help.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.7E
Surviving the Dust Bowl
A survival choice game as a 1930s Panhandle family deciding to stay or move west.
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GAMETEKS 7.7E
The Home Front
A WWII strategy game running Texas training bases and oil and aviation industries for the war effort.
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GAMETEKS 7.12C
Mission Control: Texas in Space
A knowledge game at NASA's Johnson Space Center solving problems to launch a mission.
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Unit 8: Social Studies Skills
Cross-Cutting - Use All YearInteractive Apps
INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.20A
Primary or Secondary?
A sorting widget dragging Texas sources — diary, textbook, photo, news story — into the right bucket.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.8A, 7.21A
Read the Map: Four Regions
Click the Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, North Central Plains, and Coastal Plains to compare them.
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INTERACTIVE APPTEKS 7.20D, 7.20F
Spot the Bias
A source-analysis clicker highlighting loaded words and points of view in short Texas-history sources.
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Games — Student Access
GAMETEKS 7.1B, 7.20B
Timeline Detective
A drag-and-drop game putting Texas's key dates in order — 1519, 1718, 1821, 1836, 1845, 1861, 1876, 1901.
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GAMETEKS 7.20A, 7.20F
Source Sleuth
A mystery game using clues from primary sources to crack a Texas-history case.
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GAMETEKS 7.8B, 7.21A
Region Rush
A fast map game dropping cities, rivers, and landmarks into the correct Texas region before time runs out.
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