The Moot Library
Each one is a whole-class simulation: twelve votes (eight for grades 3–5), four defensible choices each, and a world that changes because of what your class decides. Every free demo is the real game, and it runs right here in your browser.
Rise of Empires
A small band of people settles by a great river. Over four ages the class grows a camp into a city, trades with neighbors, writes laws, and faces floods and raids. A few choices are bold moves, settled by a roll of the die.
Rise of Empires
Pharaoh appoints the class to a royal council just as the Nile arrives dangerously low. Eight decisions, two Royal Commissions, and a flood season to survive. The first moot I built, so it runs without the room tools and bold moves.
Rise of Empires
The Oracle has spoken. The class builds a Greek city-state and decides the biggest question of all: a king, the few, one strong leader, or rule by the people. Upgrade Councils, bold moves, and a Persian fleet on the horizon.
Road to Revolution
The class is the town meeting of a New England harbor town. From the Proclamation line to the Declaration of Independence, it decides how the town answers London: obey, protest, or stand for liberty.
Road to Revolution
The class is General Washington’s council of war, from New York to Yorktown. The money loses value every act, allies have their own interests, and a class that played Part 1 brings its own town’s regiment.
Survival science
A seaplane goes down on an island that isn’t on any chart. The class is the survivors’ council for sixty days: water, food, shelter, who leads, and how to be seen. Real survival science, and no history needed.
Media literacy
It’s 10 p.m., and a post says the Mill is closing. The class is the editorial board of a small-town paper for one school year. They check the evidence, cite their sources, choose the words, and decide what’s true and what gets printed.
Engineering design
Sol 3 on Mars, and the air is leaking out. The class is the mission council of the first base on Mars for 180 sols. They read the test data, cite their evidence, and keep everyone breathing.
Rise of Empires
The class is the Great Assembly of the Empire of Mali, from Sundiata’s gathering of the clans to the golden age of Timbuktu. They trade salt for gold, send caravans across the Sahara, and decide how Mansa Musa travels to Mecca. You are the griot.
The Startup
One viral video, three hundred orders, and one garage. The class is the founding team of a sneaker company: they set the price, find a maker, borrow or take an investor, and every year ends with the Books, a real profit or loss counted to the dollar.
Rise of Empires
The class is the council of a samurai house on Japan’s northern shore, from the first shogun in 1192 to the end of the samurai in 1877. They face the Mongols, trade with the Ainu, live through the sword hunt and Sekigahara, and three times an order arrives from far away: obey it, or refuse?
Math and civics
A river town of 6,000 people, old pipes, a closed mill, and a budget that does not add up. The class is the new town council for one hard year: they set the tax rate, fund it, cut it, or borrow, and every season ends with the Ledger, the town’s money counted line by line with the math printed.
Grades 3–5
A storm, a little boat, and an island with no one on it. The class is the camp council: find water, food, and shelter, keep the signal fire burning, and plan the way home. A picture on every card, short stories read aloud, and a real survival science note after every vote.
Economics and civics
A small island becomes a new republic, and ships from three countries wait in the bay. The class is its first Trade Council for four years: they set the tariff, sign or refuse the deals, and decide what to make at home. Every year ends with the Harbor Report: exports, imports, and the balance of trade, with the math printed.
Reading and evidence
The lighthouse went dark, and the keeper is gone. The class is the Harbor Council of a fishing village in 1891 for one storm season. Three mysteries: they read the clues, cite the one that backs their claim, and say why. Then the screen shows what was true.
Road to Revolution, Part 3
The war is won, and the country is falling apart. The class is a council of delegates from the Articles to the Bill of Rights. On the Convention Floor each state has one vote: they count the states, call the roll, and make deals. Then nine of thirteen states must ratify, in their real order.
Civics and science
An ice storm takes down the power. The class is the county’s Emergency Council for seven days. On the County Map they choose who gets the lights back first, decide who to ask for help, and keep 13,000 homes safe and warm, window by window.
Grades 3–5
A spring storm floods the wetlands, and lost and hurt animals turn up everywhere. The class runs the little rescue at the edge of the woods: they care for an owlet, a turtle, a heron, and a fox, check each habitat for food, water, shelter, and space, and send every animal home. A watercolor picture on every card.
Rise of Empires
The class is one Roman family across a thousand years, from the first consuls to the fall of the West. They fight Hannibal, decide what to do about Caesar at the Rubicon, build the city, and watch the empire grow on a real map of the Mediterranean. Once, the Centuries vote on their choice, richest first, and the poorest Romans never get to vote.
Tip: for the full effect, open a demo on your classroom projector and click Fullscreen. Trying it alone? Choose Just me, trying it out when it asks for voting groups.
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