In this post, I will recommend to you a few online geography games which I personally find very entertaining and fun yet educational at the same time.. I will give you a screenshot, a short description of the game followed by the direct link (if available). I hope that by reading this post, you will take some time to try out these games and who knows, you might just enjoy them as much as I do! =)
Disclaimer: The games that I recommend below are only to be played AFTER you have completed all your homework, house work, revision for school and other chores. Also, these are games afterall and are in NO WAY to be used as a replacement to materials studied in school.
1) Geo Challenge on Facebook by Playfish
What is it? An application on facebook (that is why you need to have an account) where you can challenge your friends on their geographical knowledge of the world! The game goes by level where you will match flags, cities, natural & man-made landforms to their respective countries with the game getting harder and harder as you progress on.
Be warned, this game is SUPER addictive so please only play this game during your free time = after you have done all your homework, house work and revision for school work.
Where to find? http://apps.facebook.com/geochallenge/?p
2) Google Earth by Google
What is it? This is not exactly a 'game' but for those of you who are curious about the world and like to play games like The Sims, you will love Google Earth because it lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others. There's even a 'flight simulator' that you can download so you can pretend that you are flying high up in the clouds looking down all while being at home in front of your computer! =)
Where to find? http://earth.google.com/
3) Quia by Quia Web
What is it? A website where educators create educational games & quizzes for students. There are a number of games and quizzes that you can try and I especially like the ones to do with matching the right definitions to the landforms and locating the various landforms around the world. Be warned that some of the quizzes are very tough and this website might be more useful for those who are doing revision on their work.
Where to find? http://www.quia.com/shared/geo/
And Viola! I hope you all enjoy this post... and we'll do something more serious in the next post! =)
You might also try:
ReplyDeletewww.reachtheworld.org/geogames
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