Good Television

CBS’ Amazing Race is a great show: entertaining and educational. When I was teaching in the public schools I did Oshesky’s Amazing Trivia challenge, where I would pose a trivia question based on the geographic location of that week’s show. Now that we are homeschooling I couldn’t give up this great learning opportunity.

Here is the plan

For each destination:

• Find the country on a world map or in an atlas, we are plotting out the course on a world map.
• Fill out the worksheet (find the free printable worksheet here) 
• Country Name
• Capital of the Country
• Cities traveled through in the race
• 3 facts gleaned from the show i.e. kangaroo is the national symbol of Australia

There are also many opportunities, viewing The Amazing Race, to discuss character and virtue. 

• Teamwork
• Honesty
• Respect