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- Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1. Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include
a key or legend of map symbols.
2. Learn about the physical geography of your community. Identify the major
landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned.
3. 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.
Academics Pin
Earn the Geography belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
1. 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.
2. List 10 cities around the world. Calculate the time it is in each city when it is noon
in your town.
3. 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.
4. On a map, trace the routes of some famous explorers. Show the map to your den
or family.
5. On a United States or world map, mark where your family members and ancestors
were born.
6. Keep a map record of the travels of your favorite professional sports team for
one month.
7. Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) in which geography plays an important part.
8. Take part in a geography bee or fair in your pack, school, or community.
9. Choose a country in the world and make a travel poster for it.
10. 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.
11. 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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