Thematic Units - Atlas

Atlas Game

Requires all students to have an atlas or may be played in teams of 2.

Students get to know the atlas and how to use the gazetteer.

The teacher walks the kids through how to play the first couple of times....

1. All the kids have to have the atlas closed after each round.
2. The teacher uses her atlas and picks a place in the gazatteer. (Themes are good, one time pick all bodies of water, next time pick all countries, or geographical features.)
3. The teacher spells or repeats the place (no talking is allowed) the student's then look it up in the gazatteer, then they have to turn to the proper map in the altas and find it on the map. (It helps when the students read the little bit of information after the name of the place i.e. Lake Mead, Lake in Nevada...................pp 36)
4. Once a students finds it they must put their finger on it and then raise their hands. (I count student out of they yell, "I found it.")
5. Then the teacher checks to see if the student found it, and declares them the, "winner" of that round. (I usually pass out stickers)
6. Then the kids close their atlases and play starts again.
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