World Traveler | Social Studies Game



World Traveler | Social Studies Game

EDU 422 Social Studies

Jordan Mattie

Rationale: The main purpose of the game is to help students in grades 10-11 to review and study world geography. The GCO of People, place, and environment reads, “Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions between people, places and the environment.” Without any knowledge of geography, how can students ever be expected to even begin understanding people, places, and the environment? As students play the game they will travel across the globe, and will be required to identify the country that are visiting. Playing the game will provide students with a fun and interactive way to learn world geography using visual and kinesthetic learning styles.

GCO’s: People, place, and environment: Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions between people, places and the environment.

KSCO’s: By the end of grade 12, students will be expected to analyze the interactions within and between regions. (*The game relates to this KSCO because in order to analyze the interactions within and between regions students must first be able to properly identify which regions they are looking at.) Also, students will be expected to use location, distance, scale, direction, and size to describe where places are and how they are distributed.

SCO’s: Students are expected to demonstrate an understanding of world geography by identifying individual countries around the globe.

Processes: Participation: Students will engage in a variety of learning activities that include both independent study and collaboration. Also, students will reflect upon, assess, and enrich their learning process.

Inquiry: Students will apply a variety of thinking skills and strategies.

Description: In this game students will visit a variety of countries, all of which must be identified. Points are gained by identifying countries, as well as by providing additional information such as, the capital city of that country, or the official language. Movement happens from the rolling of dice, and the player who has the most points at the end (when every country has been identified), wins!

Directions/Rules: 3-5 players (One must be the tour guide).

The purpose of the game is to see that all 25 countries are visited, and identified. The person with the most points at the end wins.

The Tour Guide: The responsibility of the tour guide is to write down the names of the countries, capitals, and languages that have been identified. They are also in charge of distributing the points.

How to play: Each player must first choose a country and put his or her playing piece on it. Each player then rolls the dice – the highest roll goes first. The first player starts their turn by rolling the dice. You have the option of rolling one or two dice. Whatever number comes up is how many countries he or she moves. (You have the option of going higher or lower.) Ex. If you started on the country marked 18 and you rolled a 5, you can either go to 23 or 13. But you can’t go over or under or over 1-25. Ex. If you are on 4 and you roll a 7, you’re only option is 11.

The play continues in a counter clockwise direction until all of the countries are visited and identified.

When a player lands on a country, their options are:

• First, Identify the country if it hasn’t already been identified.

• If it has already been identified, you have the option of naming either the capital city, or the official language. (if both have been named you have one more chance at rolling for another country.)

• If you cannot answer, the play moves onto the next person.

Important: on each roll the player has a chance to get points.

How to get points:

• 3 points: Land on an unnamed country and name it.

• 5 points: travel to all 6 continents (Cards are provided to keep track).

• 2 points: name the capital of the country.

• 1 point: for being the player to name the very last country.

• 2 points: for naming the official language of the country.

• Bonus roll: if you roll “snake eyes” you can go to any country you want.

Other comments: It is important to note that this game is mainly meant to teach (and help students to study) geographical locations of countries around the world – not their capitals and official languages. The purpose of having students identify the capital or the official language is just used as additional information to challenge students or possibly encourage further study into places and cultures around the world.

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