Do your students have access to computers?
Test Your Geography Knowledge may seem a little elementary; alas — or maybe “hooray!” — it goes over exactly the sort of simple stuff I find too many high school students don’t have: Basic political geography. It beats Microsoft’s solitaire for in-class timewasting. (This is a show-off site for a programmer and company, Lizard Point; look at other stuff at the site, and think of what you can do with it.)
That site has a link to Quiz School. On-line quizzes, that you invent, that you can put into your classroom weblog — wonderful idea. What can you do with this tool? (It wouldn’t hurt you at all to post links to your quizzes here, would it?)
Back to geography: You’ll also want to check out Sheppard Software, and the collection of geography games there. The variety of games is quite outstanding — I even found one related to forestry.
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Alas, the elementary geo quiz you mention first plays havoc with reality of Alaska (and Hawai’i). Or, because cutting Alaska in half makes Texas the 3rd largest state, this was deliberate?
Where is… State of Alaska – http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/06/13/where-is-state-of-alaska/
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