Geography used to be boring until now!

Geography used to be my least favorite subject in school. It just seemed to be the memorization of countries and capitols. However, when I reached 8th grade Mr. Rodiger taught me something different. We had been studying the capitals of the states and one day he took us outside. In the parking lot we had a huge drawing of the U.S. and he had each of us students go stand on a state. He then would yell out a capital and we would have to throw a ball to the person that was in that state. If you got it correct you could stay in the states but if you got it wrong you were deported as he would call it to another country. I found this game so fun and it actually help us learn and see where the capitals were. It is activites like this and things like box city that help students to not only learn but to have fun!