Street Maps and Neighborhoods

🌍Mission Brief #8

Street maps show our neighborhoods.

🎯 Your mission

Connect the place to the people.

⚡ The twist

Borders move. Mountains don't.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 Russia spans 11 time zones. You could leave on Monday and arrive on Tuesday without traveling for a day.

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Then & Now

🌍 Where things are still decides who gets what.

Street maps show our neighborhoods. They have names for streets and places, like schools and parks. You can see how to get from one place to another. Street maps help us find friends' houses and fun places to visit nearby.

Key Facts

Street maps show names of streets.

They help us find schools and parks.

You can use them to find friends' houses.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do street maps show?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Why this still matters

Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Pull up a map and find a country you've never heard of. Look up one fact.

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For the dinner table

“If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?”

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