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Fun & Games with Google Maps

4/6/2016

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Here are several different map games which you can have your students play. There are guessing your location on clues around you, map trivia questions, Tower Defense and even Zombies! 
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Smarty Pins 
Smarty Pins is a Google Maps based geography and trivia game. They have different categories of trivia as well to play
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Maps Tower Defense
Tower Defense games are popular on phones and tablets. In this game you get the same game play but the invaders are attacking along roads of the map of your choice. Try 
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Google Maps Cube
The object of the game is to roll a small ball through a city on Google Maps and reach the indicated destination. If you manage to steer the ball to the correct destination your time is displayed and you can proceed to the next level.
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Earth Picker
The Earth Picker random generator will take you to five places in the world of Street View.
Can you guess where the places are?Zoom, rotate and move the image to discover more clues about the place. Explore great cities, famous attractions and the beauty of nature in our world.
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GeoGuessr
This was is similar to Earth Picker. You will be dropped in random places and then you guess where you are located. Some of these places are VERY random, like getting stuck on a desert road.
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Pursued!
Here is the third of these "Where am I" games.
In this one you have been taken without warning and emerge in an unknown place. It's a race against time as your being pursued by your captors! Try all 15 levels and community made levels as well

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Streetview Zombie Apocalypse
You put in an address and then try to run from the Zombies who are coming after you!
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Driving Simulator
Not much of a game but it does let you drive around any place on earth. It's kind of a trip driving on roads in your own neighborhood 
4 Comments
Sony PS5 link
5/16/2016 11:26:24 pm

There are guessing your location on clues around you, map trivia questions, Tower Defense and even Zombies!

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Nintendo Switch Accessories link
12/8/2020 10:14:59 pm



I started playing this with my sixth graders this past week, and they love it! Thank you so much! May I link your article to a blog post I'm writing about this?

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Adventure link
3/23/2021 07:21:16 am

I grew up only knowing handful and Stella Ella Ola was a favourite. The downloadable pdf is such a great cheat sheet. However discovering the Chinese Restaurant clapping rhyme was a bit offensive – the one you featured is pretty innocent but upon Googling the original version, I can’t believe people are still doing this one! Many versions complete with the gesture of pulling the sides of the eyes into a long slit (aka Asian eyes). There are so many fun clapping games, I really believe we should remove this one out of circulation.

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NBA 2K23 MT link
9/26/2022 02:45:06 pm

Whoa! This blog looks exactly like my old one! It’s on a totally different topic but it has pretty much the same page layout and design. Wonderful choice of colors!

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