101 ways to teach locational knowledge

The Capital Game

• ALL STUDENTS STAND
• STUDENT A SAYS THE NAME OF A COUNTRY, STUDENT B MUST SAY THE CAPITAL
• IF STUDENT B DOES NOT THINK THAT STUDENT A KNOWS THE ANSWER, THEY SAY 'CHALLENGE'. THIS MEANS STUDENT A MUST STATE THE CAPITAL
• THE LOSER SITS DOWN
• THE FINAL IS BEST OF THREE!

Websites and games (please add!)

• HTTP://WWW.TRAVELPOD.COM/TRAVELER-IQ
• HTTP://WWW.GEOGRAPHY-MAP-GAMES.COM/GEOGRAPHY-GAMES-CAPITALS-OF-THE-WORLD-_PAGEID95.HTML
• WWW.SPORCLE.COM/GAMES/CATEGORY/GEOGRAPHY
• http://geoguessr.com/ - Brilliant!
• http://www.memrise.com/ - brilliant ways to remember capitals!
• http://spacehopper.io/ - like geoguessr but structured for KS3/GCSE

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Clocks

Have several clocks in your classroom, one showing local time and the others either showing places that you are teaching about, or capital cities etc. Themed names eg places associated with Christmas are fun too. Change the names every 2/3 weeks. Prizes can be given for naming the correct country or finding out where somewhere is located eg Sandwich Islands.

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IKEA has clocks for £1.75 !

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Way to remember which pole is which

Antarctica is a bigger and heavier word and sinks to the bottom of the world while Arctic floats on top!

Ways to remember the tropics

The Tropic of Capricorn is in the southern hemisphere - remember: corns on your feet. So the Tropic of Cancer is the one at the top!

Geoguessr

A guess the location game using google maps

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http://geoguessr.com/

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Mapcrunch

http://www.mapcrunch.com

Similar to GeoGuessr which was added on the previous slide.

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This allows you to teleport students to a random place where they can use their geographical imaginations to describe the place.

However, if you click the 2 orange chevrons to the right, you'll reveal (or hide) a menu.

Click the MyMap box, and zoom the Google map that appears to the place you are studying.

From now on, pressing GO will take you to a place within that map area.

If you tick the STEALTH option, the location of the place that is chosen is hidden.

For example, choose a city, generate 10 places and identify where they are in relation to the CBD / suburbs etc.

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Explore to uncover more features such as Inside....

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Landscape in a Box

As described in a Teaching Geography article.

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To see how Noel Jenkins used it in his classroom, check his blog post

http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk/archives/2012/02/landscape-in-a-box-vol-1/

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To see how Matt Podbury used it, check his website:

http://www.geographypods.com/landscape-in-a-box.html

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Each landscape has a map to show its location. The location of all the group's boxes can be mapped.

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GA SPC

31 ideas from the GA SPC added to the GA website in May 2013

http://geography.org.uk/resources/topideas/

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Where is Santa?

• Students note down where their Christmas presents come from.
• Talk to others about what they got for Christmas.
• Label on a blank world map
• What do they notice?