Maps Use Colors and Pictures

🌍Mission Brief #66

Maps use colors and pictures to show places.

🎯 Your mission

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

⚡ The twist

Borders move. Mountains don't.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 There's a country (Vatican City) that's smaller than most golf courses.

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Then & Now

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

Maps use colors and pictures to show places. A blue line can show a river. Green can show parks. Pictures help us understand things better. Colors make maps fun and easy to read!

Key Facts

Maps use colors for different things.

Blue can show rivers on a map.

Pictures help us understand maps.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What color shows rivers on a map?

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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