At 7.30 yesterday morning, my boyfriend and I hovered over our new Montana friend Greg as he took this Middle East geography test in our kitchen. We’d remembered it while speaking with him about the arbitrary nature of political borders and hooting about the 50 elk we saw yesterday in the field. He fared better with his country placement than we had originally. PLEASE take it yourself. It’s fun, I promise.
What surprises/shocks you about your knowledge as you try to place each country?
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html
**Thank you to Samantha Dabney for sending this map to me many moons ago. It continues to educate.
Tags: borders, middle east map
I’m glad it doesn’t give you a score at the end. I think I would have failed. What a great teaching tool– it makes you feel compelled to finish it.
What is the most embarrassing about this process is how quickly we forget what we learn. I took this test when you sent it months and months ago and felt compelled to take it again and again and again so that I would in theory finally learn my Middle East geography. Well . . . I just found out, I didn’t.
I will keep at it. Thanks for posting.
Right on Hannah. I was thinking that it is so hard to try and understand the social and political issues of these countries without understanding the geography of the borders… and that it is almost impossible to understand the geography without a clear knowledge of the sociopolitical history of the region. I’m only about half there in either case, so my ability to comprehend the situation requires 200% effort. Will we get there? When will we care enough to study it?
This was really fun. I have to say I was relieved when I got Iran and Iraq right on the first try. Phewww. As for the rest of them…I found the countries that bordered someplace I had been or read about were much easier to locate. I guess travel is really important afterall