State Bingo and Road Trip US
Fun games excite kids about U.S. states and geography facts practice
Pros: Both games are easy to catch onto, lively, fun, and fast.
Cons: Just the facts here, not a lot of depth or background.
Bottom Line: Two games and one beautiful map enliven geography trivia.
If your students are currently learning U.S. geography, the 600+ questions in the two games on State Bingo and Road Trip US are great ways for them to practice recalling and testing themselves on what they've learned. Also, since this app uses three of the famous U.S. historic trails as guides in the road trip game, consider using them as a jumping-off point to discuss other major exploration, migration, and goods transportation routes throughout America, both historically and currently. There's a lot of good quiz data, but the app doesn't support multiple user accounts, so students can't save their own progress, and the rewards are not player-specific.
Editor's Note: State Bingo and Road Trip US is no longer available.
State Bingo and Road Trip US is a geography trivia and states identification practice app based on two games and a beautiful pictorial map. In bingo, kids answer questions that are written across the top of the screen (such as, "My capital city is Trenton. Who am I?") by tapping on the correct state shape card on a bingo board to get four in a row. For the road trip game, kids drive a smiley car along a pre-chosen path -- eastbound, westbound, or some famous historic U.S. trails -- as they answer trivia questions. The questions with multiple-choice answers range from topics like national parks and city names to state flowers and neighboring states. Incorrect answers make the cute car's tires flatten, while correct answers move the car along the trail. When a student finishes a game, the app "sends a state to statehood" as a progress reward.
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Test Your Knowledge of the US. Track Your Hits & Misses. Earn Statehood.
This app is very simple to use. There are 3 levels for use: Easy, Medium and Hard.
Students can select State Bingo or Road Trip US.
State Bingo: The easy level requires users to test their knowledge of state abbreviations, capital cities, state slogans, national parks, directions, and scrambled letters. There is some strategy required to earn a bingo: a correct answer may be shown more than once, so students can select the answer that will produce a bingo more quickly. A timer is shown at the bottom left of the screen so students can try to beat their previous times or play against other students. As students play games, they send states to My Statehoods. These states appear on a historical time line. At the Hard level, the states are shown without their names to identify them. Students can select the magnifying glass to see a map of the US to use as a guide/hints.
Road Trip: There are 5 road trips kids can take: Eastbound, Westbound, Lewis and Clark Trail, Oregon Trail, and Pony Express. If a question is answered incorrectly during the trip, the students's car can get a flat tire.
Overall opinion: I like the product. The graphics are cute and there are some nice sound effects and background music. Students can work independently with the product, working at a level that is appropriately interesting/challenging, playing against their classmates if desired. It's best for elementary students in grades 3-6. I'd recommend its use for 15-20 min to test skills and build knowledge. Repeated use can build state knowledge.
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