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Overview:
Passport plus is a Challenge opportunity for all students, with a focus on 3rd – 5th grade. The program will extend your understanding of the world you have begun to develop as you learn and review the Passport Club countries. The following describes all the tools you will have to take part in this program.
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Regional Focus: Each month the Passport plus program will focus on one region of the world and one region of the United States.
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Passport plus Activities: You can complete the mothly Passport plus activity packet monthly. It is designed to help you learn about the regional focus of the month. (See below for the activity list.)
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Passport Display: A display case is being designed where you will be invited to contribute to a display that showcases artifacts and art from around the world.
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National Geographic Geography Bee: Known as the GeoBee, our school will hold a school wide contest in January to see who knows the most about our world. Doing the monthly activities is a great way to prepare. Practice Quizzes are available online with at
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/.
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Our Resources: There are several places you can go for information to be able to do these activities, including: our library where reference materials and books about the world may be found and this website with geography links.
- Recognition. At the end of the year students will earn a certificate of recognition for completing the Passport plus activities. Also, those who complete level 5 of Passport Club and all Passport plus activities will recieve a special t-shirt!
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Passport plus Calendar
(click on the month to download the month's activity packet)
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Geography Links:
National Geographic Kids – games, activities and maps
CultureGram Kids – Learn about the countries of the world, by region
(from home use username: w001cseatl and password: welcome)
Wikipedia – a free online encyclopedia, just look up a country to learn about it
Map4Kids– Great maps including one on world languages
Seterra– download this map quiz game
Sheppard Software - plenty of geography activities and information about states and countries and a fun US state game
WorldAtlas.com– an online atlas
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Activities:
A. World Color Maps
B. U.S. Region Maps
1. Label each state on the map.
2. Color the map according to the following, label each feature:
Blue = oceans, seas, major lakes and rivers
Brown = Mountains
Red = Deserts
3. List the major products produced in that region of the US.
Red = Deserts
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US MAPS TO DOWNLOAD:
Midwest
Northeast
Southeast
Southwest
West
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C. Compare & Contrast (download
worksheet)
1. Pick 2 Countries in the region that do not border each other.
2. Find 3 things the two countries have in common. (Use the links above as a resource)
3. Find 3 things unique to each country.
4. Complete the Compare/Contract Chart.
5. BONUS: Write a compare/contrast essay in the form of a letter to your teacher. (Hint: 1st paragraph introduces the two counties and tells what they have in common, 2nd paragraph tells about the unique aspects of the first country, 3rd paragraph tells about the unique aspects of the second country, then end with something you found particularly interesting.)
D. Region Questions –
Complete the Region Worksheet
E. What in the world is happening in …? Find 3 current events telling what is happening in this region of the world now.
Download worksheet.
(Hint: try newspapers, magazines and online sources)
F. Interview someone from this region: Find someone who lived or visited this region of the world or whose family came from this part of the world and
complete the Interview Form with the person you chose.
G. Bring an artifact from this region of the world.
Complete the Artifact Sheet and share the artifact with your class. Put the artifact in the Passport display case.
H. U.S. Trip Plan – Write a letter to a friend describing a summer trip you are planning to this region of the U.S. What would you do, see, learn…? (Hint: States generally have tourism websites…)
I. Read a book – Read a book from the focus region, about the focus region, that takes place in the focus region or that involves characters from the focus region.
Then complete a Passport plus book report. (Both Fiction and Non-Fiction books are available in the library for this activity!)
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SHEET WITH THIS INFORMATION
