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Apr 18, 2024 · Explore geography through games, crafts, and activities for grades 2-12+. Learn about maps, seasons, flags, food, and more with these creative and engaging ideas.
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- Attend the local WorldWise Quiz. September is the best time to set up your club, not just because it is the beginning of the school year, but because the local round of the Geographical Association’s WorldWise Quiz will be taking place in your area in the autumn term.
- Engage the assistance of keen sixth formers. It is useful to find some helpers who are looking to study geography at university. My sixth formers sometimes deliver the club and run activities, all of which looks great on their UCAS application form.
- Play geographical games. It’s important for the club not to be extra work for pupils. Every few weeks, we play games involving atlases or capital cities.
- Play Kahoot! One of my favourite activities is a quiz website called Kahoot. It involves students playing along to a quiz shown on the whiteboard using their smartphones.
- Geography Snap. This fun game is a one minute speed test for kids to identify as many states as they can. To play, pull a labeled stick and mark the state off your map.
- 20 Questions. The classic game of 20 questions can be a perfect fit in your geography study. First, have one student come up with a state, country, or continent.
- Battle of the States. Kids will recognize this fun game as a version of the card game War. Download these free trading cards with colored illustrations of each state, along with interesting facts.
- Bean Bag Maps. This is a simple but fun way to review geography. Have a supply of small bean bags handy and a large map of the world and/or the U.S. posted on the wall.
A geography club, or other academic meeting, is a great way to encourage shared learning, public speaking, and fellowship among homeschool families. It’s also a nice way to help your kids learn about a lot of new things without having to teach everything yourself.
a weekly geography club. Our ambition was to foster students’ interest in the subject, provide a forum for them to explore contemporary ideas and raise the profile of the subject in the school community. We also wanted to organise it so as to minimise the additional workload on teachers. Our GeogSoc concept We agreed these specific aims:
Some simple ideas for running a geography club. Ollie Davies. The author describes how his school found ways to run a successful geography club without making it too time-consuming for staff. Published: 21 Sep 2020.
Learn, share, discuss: a geography club allows you to share and learn from your peers and gives you a forum to discuss topical issues without as much teacher oversight. GEOGRAPHYREVIEW articles provide excellent starting points for debate.
