Geography Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
- Draw a map of your
neighborhood. Show natural and manmade
features. Include a key or legend of map
symbols.
- Learn about the
physical geography of your community.
Identify the major landforms within 100
miles. Discuss with an adult what you
learned.
- Use a world globe or
map to locate the continents, the oceans,
the equator, and the northern and southern
hemispheres. Learn how longitude and
latitude lines are used to locate a site.
Geography Academics Pin
Earn the Geography belt loop, and complete
five of the following requirements:
- Make a
three-dimensional model of an imaginary
place. Include five different landforms,
such as mountains, valleys, lakes, deltas,
rivers, buttes, plateaus, basins, and
plains.
- List 10 cities around
the world. Calculate the time it is in each
city when it is noon in your town.
- Find the company's
location on the wrapper or label of 10
products used in your home, such as food,
clothing, toys, and appliances. Use a world
map or atlas to find each location.
- On a map, trace the
routes of some famous explorers. Show the
map to your den or family.
- On a United States or
world map, mark where your family members
and ancestors were born.
- Keep a map record of
the travels of your favorite professional
sports team for one month.
- Read a book (fiction
or nonfiction) in which geography plays an
important part.
- Take part in a
geography bee or fair in your pack, school,
or community.
- Choose a country in
the world and make a travel poster for it.
- Play a
geography-based board game or computer game.
Tell an adult some facts you learned about a
place that was part of the game.
- Draw or make a map of
your state. Include rivers, mountain ranges,
state parks, and cities. Include a key or
legend of map symbols.
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09/10/08