Carcassonne: Using a Tabletop Game to Teach Geographic Concepts

@article{Mewborne2019CarcassonneUA,
  title={Carcassonne: Using a Tabletop Game to Teach Geographic Concepts},
  author={Michael Mewborne and Jerry T. Mitchell},
  journal={The Geography Teacher},
  year={2019},
  volume={16},
  pages={57 - 67}
}
Games have been used as instructional tools throughout history. Chess, for example, has been used to study battle tactics (Young 2004), and SimCity has simulated urban planning for students for man... 
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