The day before our history test on Oceania (which included the interesting story about Australia being settled by boatloads of prisoners from England), we finished our review and then headed outside. There we laid large pieces of plastic tablecloth fabric on the parking lot in the correct geographic location (well, as close as we could anyway), and played the game Four Corners except instead of colors in the four corners the students could stand on Antarctica, New Zealand, Tasmania, the Solomon Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, and a few others.
We all had fun; the younger students learned some geography while the older students scored well on the map section of their test the next day. Those are all good things.
