We are releasing a series of videos covering our student presentations. This first one is from our visit to an intermediate school and highlights geography and its importance in today’s global society.
This is a challenging game! A series of ten questions will test which of four options is the furthest north, south, east or west.
This newest quiz poses ten world geography multiple choice questions to test physical and human geography. Looking for a U.S. version? There are also quizzes to test knowledge of the 50 states and capitals.
The newest game focuses on the continents of the world and invites you to assemble each one, using six puzzle pieces.
As we discuss our journey with educators, we have been encouraged by the many ideas on how our materials can be used in the classroom. Below you will find just some of these FUN! activity ideas.
Trekking the Planet plans to leverage technology during our journey by not only providing classrooms with pictures, audio and video from the road, but by leveraging the iPad to interact with our educational modules directly on that device.
Our newest geography game link comes from KidsGeo.com. In this game, you can test your skill in placing 21 random countries in the correct place on a world map as fast as possible.
With the Middle East and North Africa in the news, here’s a chance to test your knowledge of the location of these countries.
This three minute video, put out by Google Earth, provides some insight into what geography is and why it matters through the eyes of students.
Recent geography graduate student Christina Salas has written a commentary on the state of geographic education, reviewing the lack of instruction in schools.
Did you know that American knowledge of geography is one of the worst in the world? A National Geographic-Roper Study that surveyed young Americans showed that 88 percent of those questioned could not find Afghanistan on a map of Asia. Sixty-three percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map, and 75 percent could not point out Iran or Israel.
