Map Drop

• Grades 2–5
• Geography

Map Drop is the wooden map puzzle on a phone: drag each state or country onto its spot, then name the one that lights up. 200 levels cover the 50 states, the continents, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia and the world's biggest countries.

Free trial: 3 days with the first 25 levels of every game. No card needed.

What it teaches

• Find the US states and the five regions on a map
• Name the continents and oceans
• Learn countries of Europe, South America, Africa and Asia

Chapter by chapter

• Big states: US states
• States by region: Five US regions (gr 3)
• All 50 states: All 50 states (gr 5)
• Continents: Continents (gr 2–3)
• Europe: World countries (gr 6)
• South America: World countries (gr 6)
• Africa and Asia: World countries (gr 6)
• Biggest countries: World countries (gr 6)

Standards

TEKS (Texas)

• TEKS SS 2.4(A) Identify major landforms and bodies of water, including each of the seven continents and each of the oceans, on maps and globes.
• TEKS SS 2.4(B) Locate places, including the local community, Texas, the United States, the state capital, the U.S. capital, and the bordering countries of Canada and Mexico on maps and globes.
• TEKS SS 5.6(C) Locate on a map important political features such as the five largest cities by population in the United States and the 50 states.
• TEKS SS 6.3(D) Identify the location of major world countries for each of the world regions.

Florida NGSSS (science / social studies) & Florida Computer Science

• SS.2.G.2.3 Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North, and South Poles.
• SS.3.G.2.2 Identify the five regions of the United States.
• SS.3.G.2.3 Label the states in each of the five regions of the United States.
• SS.5.G.1.6 Locate and identify states, capitals, and United States Territories on a map.

C3 Framework (social studies)

• D2.Geo.3.K-2 Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
• D2.Geo.3.3-5 Use maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.