Very Spatial Games

This is funny because again this blog topic goes into another assignment I had for another class. We had to create a "geography game". In the design process we had to do something similar to that of our atlas page proposal. That is we had to define the target age group and collaborate all of our ideas together to make it work. My partner and I decide against an electronic format and went with a traditional board game layout. It was actually quite a fun and silly game as well. It was called "You and Our World" and was designed to show the individual relationship each one of us has with the earth. We aimed it at k-5 ages and though we never got the opportunity to actually test it out on kids, we played it ourselves and loved it. I should also mention that we earned the full 50 points! I also played some of the electronic games and I believe they can be a great resource for younger students. Often kids are turned off by the subject of geography because of how it is taught. What little geography I had as a youngster was taught through mindless memorization of places such as state capitals. Looking back on this I feel it is quite useless as I cannot remember the capitals to save my life . As a geography student at UNR I now know that geography is so much more and there are so many ways to approach it. These kinds of games are just one avenue that offers a break in the monotony.