Title: Fun Geography Lessons to Enhance Your Curriculum
Headings: 13 Unexpected and Fun Geography Lessons to Enhance Your Curriculum
13 Unexpected and Fun Geography Lessons to Enhance Your Curriculum
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1. Hold a mock geography bee.
2. Explore the world through pen pals.
3. Put up a wall of clocks.
4. Travel with technology.
5. Put the world into perspective with Google Earth.
6. Create autobiographical island maps.
7. Play a global game of hide and seek.
8. Map character journeys.
9. Study the geography of ocean currents.
10. Engage fast finishers.
11. Map your classroom.
12. Hold the whole world in your hands.
13. Get to know foods around the world.
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Students in Amy Getty’s sixth grade class start off the year by creating maps of islands that illustrate their lives. They first fill out an autobiographical survey and then use their creativity and knowledge of landforms and symbols to design their maps. 7. Play a global game of hide and seek. Mystery Class, which Christina Michelle plans to try with her students next year, includes fun geography lessons that help kids understand longitude and latitude while learning about continents, countries, and cities around the world. Kids start by gathering data about Earth, based on latitude, longitude, and seasonal changes in sunlight. Then they investigate clues and compare their data, narrowing down their search to find 10 secret sites around the globe. 8. Map character journeys. When teaching about literary settings, Jessica Brookes suggests having kids create a map of the main character’s travels throughout the story, including a title, scale, key, and compass rose.