This Top Geographers game introduces younger students to job roles that use geographical skills and knowledge.
How to play Top Geographers
- Shuffle and deal the cards face down. Next, hold your cards face up so you can see the top card only.
- Read out a fact from your card. The other players read out the same fact.
- If your fact has the best or highest value, you win the card. The winner gets to chose the next fact.
- The person with all of the cards at the end wins.
Download Top Geographers cards PDF
Other games to play with the cards
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Line 'em up: Choose a category, for example “most influential career” and plot them on a scale from most to least, going from left to right. Justify your choices.
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Diamond 9: Choose a category, for example “most sustainable career” and plot them in a diamond shape. The top of the diamond indicates the most and the bottom of the diamond, the least. Justify your choices.
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Odd one out: Justify why one of your cards could be the ‘Odd One Out’.
Made by Alice Crosby with support from the Royal Geographical Society
Alice Crosby graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA Geography International in 2016. During her university days, Alice represented the Royal Geographical Society as a student ambassador before securing her graduate job as a Transport Planner in Leeds. Alice then completed her teacher training in Manchester, and almost a decade on, Alice now leads Geography in a primary school in the North West of England. She has written and implemented a new Geography curriculum and is currently supporting her organisation to become 'Net-Zero' by 2030. Alice facilitates teacher training for two ITT providers and is keen to further upskill the next generation of teachers with a passion for Geography and the world! In her free time, Alice can be found enjoying the outdoors with her family. With a particular love for Scottish islands, Alice is happiest in a remote, 'unplugged', secluded corner of the U.K!