The students will enhance their knowledge of geography, improve on their editing and proofreading skills, learn how to check the weather conditions of an area and study different cities, their customs and their cultures. They will earn stickers for positive behaviors in the classroom and use them to travel around the world. Students will make individual maps of the world and passports. They will practice locating the seven continents and oceans of the world and review t he basic N,S,W and E directions. Students will begin in their native continent and learn about the countries in their continent.
Students earn stickers for positive classroom behavior.
They place the stickers on their beginning continent. When they earn five stickers, they travel to the next continent. Their passports are stamped with the date of departure from their present continent and stamped with the arrival date to their new continent. Then they learn about this continent via the World Wide Web and reference books. They then repeat this process for all future travels to the other continents.