Use these Sortify Discussion Starters to help students reflect on their learning during and after the Sortify Continents and Oceans game, and expand the discussion to how game play relates to real life.

  • What strategies did you use when choosing your bin labels?

  • How did you decide which bin to place your tiles in when there was more than one option?

  • For which continent was it most difficult to find tiles? Why?

  • Why do you think there was no bin for Australia?

  • Did you use the Peek at Tiles tab during game play? How did that help you increase your score?

  • What was different about the bins that were worth 5 points?

  • Which tiles were the most difficult to sort? Why?

  • Were there any bin labels that were confusing to you? How did you figure it out?

  • What are some other ways your tiles could have been sorted?

  • If you could create 5 additional tiles to include in the game, what would they be?