These animated stories were constructed for early elementary or later elementary students and play in the browser. They are vocalized and include music.
This page is under development and the items below will be updated in the future, but are available here in their original form:
You Be The Judge
This interactive threaded storybook for elementary students teaches core democratic values such as Pursuit of Happiness, Private Property Rights, and other Constitutional Rights. Help the kids decide how best to keep a treasured tree that is in danger of being cut down. Children can make several decisions throughout the story which will effect the final outcome.
Click here to view
Where is the Green Gold?
Where Is The Green Gold? follows young Tom Cobb as he sneaks aboard a wagon to a lumber camp in Michigan in the late 1800's. He learns all about the camp, the lumbering process and what green gold really was.
Click here to view
Keeper of the Light
This interactive biography chronicles Elizabeth Whitney Williams, Michigan's first female lighthouse keeper.
Click here to view
A Freeway Story
This is the tale of a community near Detroit that is dealing with the construction of a new freeway which will go through their city. What power do the citizens have to change the plans of the government? What will be the best compromise of the needs of the citizens vs. the needs of the Common Good?
Click here to view
The Flint Strike
You play the part of a reporter in the late 1930's. Your job is to write a story for the Flint Journal about the Flint Sit-down Strike. You are given a desk along with primary resources and an interactive timeline. Get busy!
Click here to view
