What Are Creative Ways To Teach Geography? is the latest “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your responses there or here in the comments section.
What Are Creative Ways To Teach Geography? is the latest “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your responses there or here in the comments section.
Thinglink with a picture of a map that has links connected to show various aspects of the area. Also, Google Maps Engine Lite (now called My Maps) or Tour Builder, they both allow you to add pictures and videos to a map.
Play a video about a geographic location and follow it up with a quiz on what they saw (I warn the students there will be a quiz before we start).
An offline Scavenger Hunt where I provide a stack of library books and brochures I get from travel companies, official country websites etc. I divide them into teams and give them an hour to find the answers to as many questions as possible.
For review I have devised my own versions of pictionary, taboo, hangman, charades etc that we do with concepts / places we have learned about in previous weeks.