Free Geography Games for Kids

What children learn in geography

Geography starts with words for where things are and grows into reading the whole world. Young children learn over, under, near and far and draw simple maps of home; early elementary students use the four directions, map keys and the seven continents and five oceans. Grades 3–5 add grid references, scale, countries, capitals and landforms such as mountains, rivers and deserts. Middle school links places to people: latitude and longitude, climate, resources, trade and migration.

PlayOwl has 9 geography games for Preschool to Grade 8, from Mapmaker Quest (Kindergarten to Grade 5) to Atlas Mystery (Grades 3–8). There are 8 grade pages of geography games and 15 of geography worksheets (171 printable PDFs in all), such as 5th Grade Geography Games. The collection Geography Games for Kids: Around the World groups games around one skill. Geography courses in the Academy go further, lesson by lesson, from Preschool to Grade 12.