Big and Small Maps

🌍Mission Brief #40

Some maps show roads and paths.

🎯 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.

Some maps show roads and paths. These maps help people know which way to drive or walk.

Key Facts

A globe is a round map.

Maps help us find places.

You can draw your own map.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Can you make your own 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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