Traveler IQ

Traveler IQ is a fun educational game. Players must locate specified cities and landmarks on a map. There are many categories from which to choose, such as, Europe, North America, World Capitals, and Photos of the World.



The questions become increasingly difficult. After you have missed a given number of miles, your game is over. Then, you are presented with a traveler IQ score and a badge which can be embedded on a blog or website. Unfortunately, the embed code does not function with Blogger.

Accident Sketch

In Geography, one of the requisite skills is the ability to transfer reality onto a map. I had the students complete the following activity in order to practise this skill.

I asked them to view a video of a car accident, then use a website called Accident Sketch to draw a sketch of the accident in the video.

Here is one student’s interpretation of this video.

Quikmaps

Today, the students used Quikmaps to plot the routes of some famous explorers.

Quikmaps allows users to draw on Google Maps.  The embedding features are nice.  You can easily resize the embedded map and select its starting focus.

Furthermore, it is not necessary to create an account.