{"id":154,"date":"2008-05-25T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-05-25T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T21:04:54","slug":"world-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"World geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying out a bunch of geography quiz sites and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheppardsoftware.com\/Geography.htm\">this<\/a> is my favourite.\u00a0 I like all the different formats: clicking on the right answer, dragging countries like puzzle pieces, and typing in country names.\u00a0 I like the fact that it isn&#8217;t timed, that it works well, fast and looks nice, that it has multiple levels of difficulty and that it includes some information about each country, city or area.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to say that I pretty much know the countries and geographical features of the world, but hardly any capital cities.\u00a0 Also I only know about half the US states and maybe 1 or 2 of the Canadian ones.\u00a0 Then again, I know all the states of India and none of the provinces of China, though neither of those features are included.<\/p>\n<p>You have to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheppardsoftware.com\/web_gameshelppage.htm\"> make a minor adjustment to Firefox <\/a>to get these games to work in it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll undoubtedly use this site with Antonia eventually.\u00a0 At the moment though, I prefer her to learn about geography from some kind of real contact with each country, rather than blasting her way through the list.\u00a0 I suspect young children may enjoy the puzzle level with the countries, even though it is rated intermediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying out a bunch of geography quiz sites and this is my favourite.\u00a0 I like all the different formats: clicking on the right answer, dragging countries like puzzle pieces, and typing in country names.\u00a0 I like the fact that it isn&#8217;t timed, that it works well, fast and looks nice, that it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World geography<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}