Overview With Crosscountry Texas, your geography classroom becomes a real Texas adventure. Students drive an 18-wheel truck across the state as they deal with budgets, time and distance and unexpected events. They will be learning valuable problem solving skills as they gain knowledge of their state.
Students actually use geographic skills and knowledge to make decisions and solve problems.
Along the way students develop their geographic literacy, learning about the relationships between places, goods and regions. In addition they also develop an understanding of their place in the context of this information. True to life experiences Each unique mission takes students to any of 135 Texas cities. Players pick up and transport regional commodities as they learn routes to nationwide destinations. They also acquire map reading, decision making, estimating, and problem solving skills, as they try to make the most of fuel, money, and time.