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Subjects
Social StudiesGeography
Grade
K-2
3-5
6-8
9-12
Brief Description
Map game challenges students to develop geography skills.
Objectives
Students will
work cooperatively.
ask questions to help their team narrow down the location of a "mystery location."
play fairly and thoughtfully.
Keywords
geography, world, game
Materials Needed
a map (or globe) for each team
Lesson Plan
Make a game out of geography with this activity. Arrange students into groups of four. Provide each
group with a globe or a detailed map. (That map might be a map of your town or state, the country,
or the world -- depending on the focus of the curriculum at your grade level.) Have students in each
group select a location on the map.
If you are studying your city or town, they might select a specific location within the city or town.
If you are studying your state, students might select a town within the state.
Older students might select a country on a world map.
After students have selected a location, start with the first team. That team fields yes or no questions
from the other teams, one question at a time. (Team 2 asks a question first, then Team 3, 4.) The
questions might start out general and get more specific. You or a specified game leader monitors the
questions asked to make sure they are fair questions. For example, if students are working with
world maps, questions might include:
As questions are asked, team members refer to their maps and agree on a response. If they give a
"Yes" answer, the team that asked the question can choose to make a guess as to the name of the
specific place. If the team guesses correctly, they earn five points. If the guess is incorrect, the next
team asks a question that will help identify the place.
After Team 1's place is guessed, it is Team 2's turn to answer questions about the place it selected;
Team 3 begins the questioning.
When it is a team's turn to ask a question, 1) students on each team might work together to
create questions and give responses, or 2) one student at a time might ask a question. If the
latter is the case, students on each team need to establish a sequence of players within their
team, so each player asks one question before any player asks a second question.
Each team should have some kind of barrier/wall/carrel so they can get close to their map or
globe without opposing team members being able to see which area of the map/globe they are
looking at; that is especially important as questions get more specific.
Assessment
The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.