National Geographic Bee
Each year thousands of schools in the United States participate in the National Geographic Bee using materials prepared by the National Geographic Society. The contest is designed to encourage teachers to include geography in their classrooms, spark student interest in the subject, and increase public awareness about geography. Schools with students in grades four through eight are eligible for this entertaining and challenging test of geographic knowledge.
National Geographic has games designed to hone those geography skills. From the National Geographic Bee home page you can find daily quizes
Interactive games and maps might be a great way to develop the needed skills for your students to crush the National Geographic Bee. Here are few,I am sure there are many, many more! Feel free to add them in the comment section of the blog!
Geonet has games based on the world map as well as the map United States. Place spotting is based on the Google Earth platform. You can solve riddles created by others or create riddles for others to solve.
Traveler IQ Challenger: “How Well Do you Know Your World?” The Traveler IQ challenge ranks geographic knowledge of cities, or by comparing results against 6,383,822 other travelers. Brought to you by TravelPod, a member of the Media Network
Lizardpoint covers basic world geography with over 37 world maps.
GeoGames challenges players to Build Planet Earth and Map Countries and Cities using fun graphics and sound effects on an animated 3D globe. Geogames would be a great game for the Smartboard. Each level of the game is graded, Easy, Medium or Hard. Players can track and record their completion times using the automated game timer.