This project is an example of our interactive educational content targeted at children, aged 5-7 who are learning history as part of the Key Stage 1 curriculum in UK primary schools.  It was made for the BBC’s Bitesize strand and makes use of their in-house IVOR game development engine. 

Exciting Explorers offers its audience a front row seat on some of history’s most extraordinary adventures.  Players can:

• Trek across vast deserts on camelback to assist Ibn Battuta on his pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca!
• Fly across the Atlantic ocean with Amelia Earhart and prevent her aeroplane from freezing up!
• Blast into space alongside Neil Armstrong and witness mankind’s first steps on the moon!

With unique missions for each historical figure, Back in time with… Exciting Explorers aims to enhance the Key Stage 1 History curriculum by giving children a unique role to play in humanity’s greatest stories.

Produced during the UK lockdown at the height of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Exciting Explorers offered educators an invaluable, engaging resource at a time where parents were taking on more responsibility for their children’s education than ever before.  It now lives on as part of the broad educational interactive offering from the BBC on the Bitesize website here!