Map Symbols and Colors

🌍Mission Brief #2

Map symbols are pictures that stand for things.

🎯 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.

Map symbols are pictures that stand for things. A tree symbol shows where trees are. A blue line often means a river or lake. Colors tell us more, too! Green is for parks, and brown is for mountains. Symbols and colors make maps easy to read.

Key Facts

A tree symbol shows where trees are.

Blue lines usually mean rivers.

Colors help us know what is on the map.

Check Your Understanding

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What does a tree symbol represent?

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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