We don't teach geography much in school these days, and I believe it is important to know our world. As part of my campaign to increase this knowledge, we've been using some games from Jetpunk every once in awhile when I have a few extra minutes of classtime to leverage.
Today my seniors had 2 minutes to study the countries of the different continents before hiding their maps. We then did a Jetpunk that asked for us to identify the first five countries alphabetically for each continent (Australia was part of Oceania).
Overall we didn't do really well. HOWEVER, my years of pounding South America into their heads meant that as a class, we identified all 5 of these countries (even Brazil that I try to ignore since Spanish is not their main language).
I will take my little victories where I find them :)
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