This fun puzzle involves children using Google Earth to find a specific letter of the alphabet. All the letters are made-up from different features on earth such as buildings and rivers.
Each coordinate leads to a different letter. Once the children have recorded the letter, they can zoom out to find out and record what country it is in. Once they have all the letters, they have to rearrange them to make up the mystery word.
You can see all the answers by selecting the text in both the country and letter columns and changing the text colour. They are hidden in plain sight, so don’t forget to remove them if you are setting this as a document online.
This could either work as an individual competition - see who can find all the places in the quickest time. Or it could be done as a collective effort - the whole class working to find the different places before the time runs out.
Children and adults alike really enjoy this activity!
Extension ideas:
a) Have the children find their own letters around the world, or for more difficulty, in their local area.
b) Use the snipping or Print Screen (PrtSc) tool to copy images of letters and spell out a name or even a phrase.
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