Road Trip Maps

🌍Mission Brief #19

There are different kinds of maps.

🎯 Your mission

Find it on the map. Then find what makes it special.

⚡ The twist

Where you live shapes how you live — more than you think.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 Africa is bigger than China, India, the US, and most of Europe — combined.

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Then & Now

🌍 The geography you'll learn is the same one your phone's GPS is using right now.

There are different kinds of maps. Some show mountains and rivers. Others show countries and cities. Weather maps show rain and sunshine.

Key Facts

Globes show the whole Earth.

A map legend explains the symbols.

North is usually at the top of a map.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is a globe?

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.

Find where everything in your fridge came from this week.

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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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