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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Content: It’s a great way to incorporate writing, technology, graphic design, and geography into a single project. 5. Put the world into perspective with Google Earth. Anytime fourth grade teacher Julia McIntyre talks about her personal travels, she uses Google Earth to show students the distance between their school and her destination. “ It really puts it into perspective for them,” she says. Now you can also use Google Earth to follow National Geographic Explorers, including those working to protect the oceans through National Geographic’s Pristine Seas initiative. Josh Williams’ students explore the Pristine Seas program and use Google Earth to analyze how places around the world have changed over time. 6. Create autobiographical island maps. Source: