Tuesday, May 18, 2010

End of the Year Survey 2010

The URL of your survey is:
http://www.quia.com/sv/410927.html

Please take time to fill out this short survey to help me improve the class for next year. See me in class for the "secret" word required to take the survey.

SURVEY IS CLOSED.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

50 State Geography Games & Review



We'll be working on the geography of the 50 states in class this week and next. Use these sites to help you study.






An easier game and a good place to start if you don't know your states well:

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/unitedstates.html

A fairly tough game where you need to type in the names of all 50 states while looking at an outline map:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/states.php

Challenging game using a satellite map that you drag the outline of the states onto:

http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/fiftystates2.jsp

Click and drag the name of the lower 48 states to their place on an outline map:

http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf

History Channel site about all the states. Lots of info and hunt around for some fun and challenging games.

http://www.history.com/topics/states

If you’re not at school, you can play the computer based geo game (that you remember from last year) online at:

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/us-puzzle.html

Good luck!
Which one is your favorite? What's your best score. Be prepared to share your thoughts and scores in class.