I expect we will have lessons at different levels and that some lessons will be used with some students and not others. The following are two geography exercises for Mass. Studies contributed by Dick Aieta. See also the climograph exercise contributed by the Massachusetts Geographic Alliance. For each item, put it on one side of a 3x5 card. Careful not to let the receiving student see it although everyone else can.
Students then mill about until they see other people's cards.
Once they get it correct, they put the card on their front and become helpers. Only people who guess their card can put it on their front and give hints to others who are stuck. Once the whole class has cards on their front have them use a desk map, sheet map or transparency map to locate the items. This exercise also works to introduce a unit or as a review before a test for any region under study.