World Geography Treasure Hunt reflection

Teaching Geography: Explain  

Prompt: Complete the World Geography Treasure hunt (2 pages) using our MSMC Google Classroom classwork and share what you found out. Did you make any discoveries? reflect on your experience in your blogs.

After completing this treasure hunt, I have learned many things I did not know before. I have learned about the country population and sizes of countries, and more. This project was exciting using both a map and the world atlas website. I liked using the atlas website because every answer was right there, and it was very straight forward. I did not have to read ten pages to answer a question that was one word long. It was also interesting that the smallest country was Vatican city, with the population being 0.44. I did not know that this was the smallest country, and I also did not realize that it was found in Rome. I also did not know that the most spoken native language was Mandarin Chinese, with 950 million speakers. Before doing this project, I would have been adamant that it was English. I did not know that the oldest country was Iran which was created in 3200 BC. I also did not realize south Sudan was the youngest country and that it was created in 2011. This project allowed me to learn many things I did not know before, which caused me to appreciate geography better. I also liked using the online digital map because it was easy to read. But with this map, you could not use the search bar and look for the answers to the questions.  The digital map would be a great resource to use in a classroom because students can see each country's states and other features.