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Lesson 1 of 100 · Maps and Geography

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What Is a Map?

What Is a Map?

🌍Mission Brief #1

A map is a picture that shows us where things are.

🎯 Your mission

Navigate the world like an explorer with a question.

⚡ The twist

Where you live shapes how you live — more than you think.

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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

🌍 Where things are still decides who gets what.

A map is a picture that shows us where things are. Maps can show your school, your neighborhood, or the whole world!

Key Facts

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A map shows where things are.

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Blue on a map means water.

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A globe is a round map.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is 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.

Pull up a map and find a country you've never heard of. Look up one fact.

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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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