This past week and a half, I was guest teaching in a 4th grade classroom. They had recently completed a unit on United States geography. I decided to use transition time to give them clues to a world geography question. After reviewing city, state, country, and continents a few times, I started giving them clues.
- Located south of the equator
- Predominately Spanish-speaking
- Has famous islands
- Starts with an e
- Means equator in Spanish
The guesses varied from New Mexico, Mexico, Spain...at least they, except for New Mexico, were getting the Spanish-speaking clue correct. They guessed all the way around the globe, but did not get the correct one...Ecuador. After this experience, I realized that geography is definitely a subject area that isn't getting as much time in the classroom. So here are some fun websites that you might want to try either at home or in the classroom for a Social Studies center.
Here are five interactive geography games to help reinforce mapping and geographical skills. Click on the thumbnail picture to go to the website.
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Students get to choose their character as they move across the United States answering geographical questions.
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Simple game that you could have students play individually or as a class where they match the name of the continent to the actual continent.
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This higher level game gives students the choice of "Running for President", "Going on a Road Trip" or "Going on a Rock Music Tour" while making the best choice for the next city in the United States.
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Free Rice contributes rice to developing countries and teaches kids geography skills at the same time. Win, Win!!
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Through the National Park Service's website, this webgame first teaches kids about all kinds of different types of maps and then quizzes them on the information.
Happy "reading",
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