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Geography Lesson - Find the
Participating Schools
Overview
Students will locate the participating schools on a map and research their country,
culture, and environment.
Objectives
Students will:
- Acquire geographical understanding by studying the world in spatial terms.
- Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live.
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Time
Approximately one 45 minute class period.
Materials
- Computers with Internet access
- Large wall-size world map with latitude and longitude lines
- Push pins, sticky dots/stars, different color pens, etc. for plotting
the schools
- If students plot the schools individually, the following free downloadable
world maps are available from National Geographic if they do not already have
one:
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Teacher Preparation
All students should participate in locating the participating schools and
plotting them on a world map. Students can take turns locating a participating school
on the large wall-size world map and / or can work in small groups to locate the
participating schools on a small world map.
Assessment Suggestions
The students' maps can be used for assessment (e.g. Are the answers complete, accurate,
and do they show an understanding of the lesson concepts?).
Procedure
NOTE: The following instructions for the
Geography Activity are printed in the Project Instructions
section of this web site.
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Geography Activity: Find the Participating
Schools
Materials:
- List of Participating Schools
- Large wall-size world map with latitude and longitude lines
- Push pins, sticky dots/stars, different color pens, etc. for plotting
the schools.
- Optional: the following free downloadable world maps are available
from National Geographic:
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Instructions:
- Go to the current List of Participating
Schools or the Letters of Introduction conference of the
Discussion Area and locate the schools
on a wall-size world map. Place a push pin, sticky dot, etc. to mark the
location of the schools. You may find it helpful to print the list of
schools.
- After you've located several schools on the map, select one or two
located in a different country or geographic region and research their
country, culture, currency, environment, etc. You can use the following
URLs to find out more information:
- After you've researched the school's country, etc., go to the Letter
of Introduction conference of the Discussion
Area and ask them what life is truly like in their home and share
with them the information that you have found.
- Return to the List of Participating
Schools frequently and plot the schools as they register for the project.
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