GEO Play - rediscover the beauty of geography!

GEO Play - rediscover the beauty of geography! is an app that helps students learn and memorize the names and locations of the capital cities of the world's nations. First, students choose Practice (solo) or Play Online (turn-based game with friends or a randomly chosen opponent via Game Center). Then they select Map (find world capitals on the map), Flags (find matching flags for world countries), or Capitals (find matching capitals for world countries). For each mode, you can choose World or one of five regions: America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. For online play, you can also choose to mix three rounds of different types.

GEO Play helps students organize a geographical framework around countries by placing them into five regions (America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania). Many of the names of the capital cities in these regions are not easy to spell or pronounce; it would be nice to hear a recording of the correct pronunciation. One of the best features of GEO Play is that it repeats the request for capital cities in subsequent games, so kids are encouraged to memorize them and try again. Memorization is really the key; there's not much depth or additional information beyond country and capital names. GEO Play can benefit students with very little or a lot of geographical knowledge.

Kids will learn by playing the game for points, either by themselves in practice mode or in an online social gaming environment. The baked-in learning in this game adapts to a kid's current level of knowledge in world countries and capital cities by encouraging educated guesses with some points or a bonus for very accurate answers. There's lots of feedback during and after gameplay, which helps kids see their progress in learning these basic geography facts.