Using a Compass Rose

🌍Mission Brief #64

A compass rose shows the four main directions.

🎯 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

🌍 Where things are still decides who gets what.

A compass rose shows the four main directions. It helps us know where to go. The rose has North at the top, South at the bottom, East on the right, and West on the left. When we look at a map, the compass rose helps us understand where we are.

Key Facts

A compass rose shows North, South, East, and West.

North is at the top of the compass rose.

East is to the right on the compass rose.

Check Your Understanding

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What does a compass rose 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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