Street Maps and Neighborhoods

🌍Mission Brief #68

Street maps help us find places in 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

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

Street maps help us find places in our neighborhoods. They show streets, houses, and parks. When you look at a street map, you can see how to get to the store or your friend's house. Street maps help us travel safely.

Key Facts

Street maps show streets and buildings.

They help us find places in our neighborhoods.

Maps can guide us to stores and parks.

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.

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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