Maps Show Us Places

🌍Mission Brief #32

Maps use colors to show different things.

🎯 Your mission

Connect the place to the people.

⚡ The twist

Maps lie a little — they always have to.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 Africa is bigger than China, India, the US, and most of Europe — combined.

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Then & Now

🌍 Where things are still decides who gets what.

Maps use colors to show different things. Blue is for water, green is for land, and brown is for mountains.

Key Facts

Maps help us find places.

You can draw your own map.

A map shows where things are.

Check Your Understanding

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What color is water on a map?

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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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