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GeoSafari Electronic Learning Game, Educational Insights
Age 8 and up, Award-winning game.
Electronic quiz game for 1 or 2 players. Mostly maps.
World Map Floor Puzzle, 1977, Judy Company
Ages 7 and up, Floor puzzle
A 36" x 48" puzzle with 48 pieces and activity suggestions.
The Cattlemen, 1977, Selchow & Righter Company
age 10+, Board game, expansion board game
"An exciting land-grabbing, claim-jumping game of the Old West, pitting
one land baron against another."
Axis & Allies, 1987, Milton Bradley
ages 12 - adult, combat strategy board game
Ave. playing time: 3-4 hours, 2-5 players
"...Challenges you and your opponents to decide the outcome of World War
II."
Kansas: The Sunflower State, 1988, Austin-Peirce
elementary, puzzle
100-piece puzzle of Kansas, with counties and county seats, rivers, historical
trails and landmarks, state flag, state motto, state bird, and other items pertaining
to the State of Kansas.
Deluxe GeOdyssey, 1987, Geolearning Corporation
Ages 8 and up, puzzle
Challenge your knowledge of the world by playing this entertaining learning
game. Fun for everyone. GeOdyssey DELUXE, The World Game, is played by building
a world map with tiles. Is that Africa or Australia? Do you know your coastlines?
It's not as simple as it seems. Lines of latitude and longitude will match several
ways...but only one will work according to geography. You build the world! This
game can be played to hundreds of possible configurations, each one an absolutely
correct map of the Earth.
GeOdyssey, 1987, Geolearning Corporation
Ages 8 and up, puzzle
Challenge your knowledge of geography by playing this entertaining learning
game. Fun for everyone. GeOdyssey, The World Game, is played by building a world
map with tiles. Is that Africa or Australia? Do you know your coastlines? It's
not as simple as it seems. Lines of latitude and longitude will match several
ways...but only one will work according to geography. You build the world! This
game can be played to hundreds of possible configurations, each one an absolutely
correct map of the Earth.
GeoCards, 1987, GeoLearning Corporation
Ages 8 and up, cards
An exciting geography card game which allows a world map to be built in hundreds
of different ways, each an absolutely correct map of the Earth.
We The People, 1993, Avalon Hill Game Company
12 and up, board game
"...Relive the events of the American Revolution."
GeoSafari Theater, 1995, Educational Insights
Age 8 and up, Electronic lessons/quiz
See GeoSafari Theater transparency sets. Controllers require batteries. Includes
27-page instruction guide, plastic carrying case.
"...Innovative tool for exciting classroom instruction." Use with
an overhead projector and the GeoSafari overhead transparency sets (or make
your own transparencies). Flexible, with 5 modes, including competitive and
noncompetitive modes.
GeoBee, 1996, National Geographic Society
beginner, intermediate, advanced, electronic lessons/quiz on CD-ROM
play alone or up to 4 players, Windows or Mac
"Test your wits with GeoBee, the exciting geography quiz game...poses thousands
of questions, including hundreds of new pictorial and audio questions."
Challenge Around the World, 1991, Good Apple
grades 4-8+, board game
classroom board game to better acquaint students with world geography
Highlights Best Board Games from Around the World, 1992, Highlights
for Children, Inc.
elementary, board games
EdPress 1992 Distinguished Achievement Award Winner
This is a collection of 16 board games from different parts of the world. Most
of the games are for two players. Includes Go (Chinese), Bandits (Roman), Wari
(African), Poindexter (French), etc. "Challenge indicators" denote
complexity. Each game has a very brief history.
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