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 鈥渕ost influential career鈥� 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 鈥渕ost sustainable career鈥� 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 鈥極dd One Out鈥�.
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Made by Alice Crosby with support from the Royal Geographical Society鈥�
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 has facilitated 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!