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Oregon Trail History Learning System

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This is a great educational game for kids learning about the westward expansion. You play as a group of people going west in a wagon train, along the way you will need to deal with problems such as getting across rivers and mountains, getting food, dealing with sickness and encounters with Native Americans. My daughter, age 8, can't quite do everything by herself, but we play it together. It also came with a Liberty Kids CD that is fun as well and teaches about the American Revolution. With Social Studies getting put on the back burner in schools these days this is a great tool. As a teacher not only does it build the kids social studies knowledge it also builds vocabulary and background knowledge that will help them in school.

This is a good game, but one word of caution......If you have MAC OSX and not OS9, you need to download a font called New York 18, or else the program won't run. You cannot find this download free anywhere, but it's possible to ask friends who have OS 9 capabilities on their computer to let you download the font onto a CD and then transfer it to your own computer. That's what we had to do to get the Oregon Trail part to run. The Liberty Kids part of the whole game is good, too.