Cara’s world tour · physical features, countries & cities
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Why this works (for grown-ups)
Built around methods that actually move geography facts into long-term memory for 8–12 year olds — not rereading the table.
Retrieval practice. Ritchie, Della Sala & McIntosh (2013, PLOS ONE) had 8–12 year olds learn novel geographical facts. Kids who were tested on them remembered more 4 days later, and again at 1 and 5 weeks. Mind maps did not add that benefit.
Guided retrieval. Karpicke et al. (2014) found younger learners freeze on free recall. Hints and a map to tap are the scaffold.
Spacing. Cepeda et al. (2006): spreading reviews beats cramming. “Due today” uses expanding gaps (roughly 1 day → 3 days → a week).
Dual coding. Paivio: colour + map + spoken name beat a word list. Worksheet colours are kept on purpose.
Generation / maps from memory. Fernandes et al. (2018) and geography classroom practice: placing a thing on a map yourself beats staring at a labelled one.
Interleaving. Mix oceans, mountains, rivers instead of one block. Rohrer’s work on mixed practice.
The worksheets ask “I know where it is”. A tick here means Cara found it on the map from memory, not that she reread the name. Cities are hunted twice: once on the world map, then on a zoomed-in map, because New York and Washington DC are the same dot at world scale.