Finding Things on a Map

🌍Mission Brief #4

Finding things on a map is fun.

🎯 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

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

Finding things on a map is fun! A map shows where things are. We can find our school or favorite park. Look for pictures or words to help us find places. It’s like a treasure map!

Key Facts

Maps show where things are located.

Pictures help us find places on maps.

Finding things on a map is like a treasure hunt!

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do maps help us find?

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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