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A geography skills games used to teach grid references in the form of the battleships game.

Each slide of the powerpoint is the teachers turn. This means that no cheating can take place.

Pupils use the blank grid to draw on their ships and marks off eack of the teachers turns (which is also shown on the powerpoint).

Once the first player has all of their ships sunk, the teacher loses.

Each student takes it in turn to read out their coordinates to try and sink the teachers ship.

A single hit sinks the entire ship.

It works incredibly well for all age groups.