Worldle Country of the Day – Geography Routine

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Here's an easy way to incorporate world geography into your classroom routine!

How to Use:

Play WORLDLE with your class: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

It's a game inspired by WORDLE but using images of countries instead. It's a great way to also practice, percentages, compass directions and distances, as incorrect guesses are given information about how far they are from the actual country, in what direction, and what percentage accuracy your guess had.

After you have determined the country of the day, students can spend a few minutes learning about it and recording basic facts on the handout (you can print it double-sided, so 12 countries fit on a sheet).

Students need to identify which continent the country is part of, find its current population, the capital city, countries that are neighbours, the official language or languages, and two fun facts.

This website is a great resource for learning about each country: https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/

If you play for a whole school year, you should have time to learn about most of the countries in the world! You could also let students choose different countries from the game to research more in depth and present to one another.

Grades to Use With:

This is an easy routine to use in your grades 4-9 classrooms. It could be a morning homeroom activity as kids arrive each day or something to help the class settle after lunch. You could also use it during social studies or geography lessons as a quick break or reward.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Place a country on the right continent and name the countries that border it
Locate a country's capital city and its official language or languages from a reference source
Find and record a country's current population figure
Select two facts worth recording about a country from a longer reference page, deciding what is interesting enough to keep
Build a running reference of countries over a term, so later entries can be compared with earlier ones

Teaching tips

Print double-sided: the how-to on the first page notes that twelve country boxes then fit on a single sheet, which is a term's worth of a daily routine
The country comes from an external daily game, so check that worldle.teuteuf.fr is reachable on your school network before building a routine around it
Six boxes to a page keeps each entry short - budget a few minutes rather than a lesson, which is what makes it work as a settling activity
The Neighbors field rewards having a wall map or an atlas open, since it is the one entry students cannot copy straight from a country fact page
Let stronger students pick one recorded country to research further and present back, using their own filled box as the starting notes

Skills covered

Country research - students find a capital, an official language, a population figure and bordering countries for one country at a time.
Continent placement - each box requires the country to be assigned to its continent before the rest of the entry is filled.
Selecting information - the Fun Facts field takes exactly two entries, so students must choose what is worth recording from a longer source.
Building a reference record - six boxes per page and three pages, filled one country a day, accumulate into a class or personal atlas of facts.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Where does the country of the day come from?

An external daily game. The printed how-to on the sheet names worldle.teuteuf.fr, a country-guessing game where each wrong guess reports the distance, direction and percentage accuracy of the attempt. The handout is what students fill in once the class has worked out that day's country.

What does each country box ask students to record?

Six things: the continent, the population, the neighbouring countries, the capital, the official language or languages, and two fun facts numbered 1) and 2). The country's own name goes on the blank line at the head of the box.

Is a research source suggested?

Yes - the printed how-to names kids-world-travel-guide.com as a place to learn about each country, and adds that a class playing all year should get through most of the countries in the world.