Build a Dream Vacation Box
Kids build a decorated box and fill it with research that can help get them to their dream location someday!
Exercise Across America
Here's an activity to inspire your family to exercise routinely. "Race" across America by choosing a destination and "walking" or "running" your way there!
Map Your Food
Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.
Geography Travel Game
Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.
Going to the Park? Make a Map!
The next time an out-of-town guest is coming to stay, give your child a chance to be the tour guide and take your visitor on a trip to the park. Build your first grader's social studies skills by making a map together.
Geography Game with Dr. Seuss!
Kids can take turns helping a balloon stay up, up, up in the air while imagining all the places they'll go in this energetic geography game inspired by Dr. Seuss.
On the Road Again! Back Seat Activities
Are you at a loss for how to keep your child entertained during those long hours on your next road trip? Here are some great ways to keep your child's mind active and learning while he passes the time on the road.
Make a Knuckle Contour Map
Contour maps show the highs and lows of geography. This activity will help your teenager understand contour maps like the back of her hand...with the back of her hand!
Engage Your 5th Grade Traveler!
You've been talking about this vacation for years. You've saved the money and hoarded your days off from work. Your fifth grader is even, finally, old enough to savor the sights. It's a dream! There's just one teeny problem: it's about five hundred miles in the car, each way.
Recreate Your State...Out of Salt Dough!
Kids are often encouraged to make state models as a hands-on technique of reinforcing a state geography lesson. Challenge her to try to recreate her state using homemade salt dough.
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