Maps Use Colors

🌍Mission Brief #71

Hills and flat land look different on maps.

🎯 Your mission

Navigate the world like an explorer with a question.

⚡ The twist

Maps lie a little — they always have to.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 There's a country (Vatican City) that's smaller than most golf courses.

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Then & Now

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

Hills and flat land look different on maps. Maps use special ways to show high and low places.

Key Facts

A map shows where things are.

Blue on a map means water.

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.

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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