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Race Around The World | |
(Grades 6 - 8)
Adaptable to High School
Race Around the World was developed to teach cultural geographic knowledge. The writing, math, geography, science, and technology is scaffolded within a class (and/or interclass) competition as students delve into an analysis of their world and its six billion inhabitants.
Objectives:
- To familiarize the students with a regional understanding of world geography, science, or teacher-directed content as they develop a strategy to explore the world and virtually travel their planned route, researching and learning about the world;
- To develop and refine authentic writing skills;
- To increase research skills, using library resources, maps, almanacs and the Internet; and
- To provide motivation, as students are awarded prizes at the end of the game for those who traveled (1) the greatest distance; (2) the fastest; and (3) spent the least amount of money.