Offers numerous, large, black and white photos. Includes 35 student guides and one teacher's guide. In this simulation of a cross-country air race, student teams fly small planes across an imaginary continent. Students must plan their strategies, figure out specific flight plans, react to the vagaries of fate, make new decisions, and record what happens to them. As they participate, they should begin to develop knowledge of maps and to acquire skills such as reading maps, calculating distances, reading latitude and longitude and writing journal entries.
Cooperative planning is an important aspect of the game.
Interspersed with brief text are the folk song's verses describing the slaves' route and their hardships. Includes an introductory note about the underground railway and musical notation for the song. Also recommended for elementary English Language Arts. Please refer to the titles African Food and Drink, British Food and Drink, Caribbean Food and Drink, Mexican Food and Drink and Spanish Food and Drink . This integrated curriculum was designed to help Grade 6 students learn the paths of the food they eat, the roots of hunger, and how they can act locally on a global problem.