Filed under: Fun, Kids, Time-Wasters, Education
I'm not entirely sure if I should call this a time waster or an educational tool. I guess it can be both. If you're stuck in 9th grade geography (or know someone who it) it could certainly help.
If you're past all that school stuff and want to see how much geography you remember, check out the
World Map by Game Design. You are given a world map and the names of 20 countries. You have about 10 seconds to find each country on the map.
If you are lucky to get some of the bigger countries it's quite easy, but once you have a few small African nations things become much more challenging. I'm not going to share my score. It's too embarrassing!
If you're good at naming countries but not finding them you can try the
192 UN recognized states in 10 minutes. Basically, once you load the page a timer starts to count down. You have 10 minutes to name as many UN recognized countries as you can.
When you type in a correct answer it is added to the list. So if you type something in and it doesn't disappear, it's not right. My biggest challenge was spelling some of the country names. I got about 70 countries entered before I ran out of time and had about 10 that I just couldn't figure out how to spell properly.
So, DLS readers, how are your geography skills?
[Via
Eco Worldly]
译文:
世界地图地形测定器
未分类: 娱乐, 儿童, 浪费时间的东西, 教育
我不太确定我该管这个叫浪费时间的东西还是教育工具。我想可能两者都是。如果你被9年级的地理难住（或者认识这样的人），那么这个肯定会给你带来帮助。
如果你通过了全部的学校考核并且想知道你到底记住了多少地理，通过游戏方式来查看世界地图。给你一张世界地图和20个国家的名字。你用10秒时间来找每个国家在地图上的位置。
如果你幸运地拿到了一些大国的名字，那这个游戏就很简单了，但是一旦你拿到一些非洲小国，那么游戏就变得很有挑战性。我不想和大家分享我的得分，那太令人为难了。
如果你擅长叫出国家的名字但是找不到他们，你可以用尝试用10分钟说出192个联合国公认的国家。基本上，一旦你用计时器开始倒计时，你就要在10分钟内尽可能多的写下联合国认证国家。
当你正确地打出答案时，答案会被加到列表中。因此如果你用键盘输入电脑但它没有消失，那就不是正确答案了。我最大的挑战是拼写一些国家的名字。在时间用完之前我写了大概70个国家的名字，大概只有10个国家的名字没有正确地拼写出来。
那么，DLS读者，你的地理技巧如何呢？