Geographic Garble

In class today we investigated a fun way to introduce students to different towns in a fun and very creative activity known as "Geographic Garble". The concept is hard to explain, and at first it felt like we were dealing with complex coded language. After working with a couple of the towns in a packet we got to make our own in our assigned state.

After creating some of the garbles for our state we saw some interesting ways to give our classmates a hint and still keep the mystery of the activity intact. Using concepts about maps, such as grids, we could lead our classmates to the correct answer without ruining the fun. Great class activity, with an art integration.

Here is Montana's Geographic Garble.