Research a local landmark and describe its significance in your community's civic and cultural history. Make your own sextant and find out how far you are from the equator. Discover how changing the scale of a map can either increase or decrease the level of detail you see. Create a miniature shipwreck and create grids and tags in a model excavation.
Students learn about travel to another country and plan a ten day trip.
Students combine math and geography to study mountain ranges, mass, and metric. Students trail a fictitious downhill skier using map reading and geography skills to solve clues. Students explore the five themes of geography as they compare their region to a city in Japan.