Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek) is an annual public awareness program that encourages citizens young and old to think and learn about the interconnectedness of our world.
Celebrate GAWeek this year by declaring your interdependence! Challenge friends, classmates, and family members to complete missions and earn badges exploring geography and the ways in which you're connected to everything around you.
GAWeek was established by Presidential proclamation in the United States in 1987 and is organized by National Geographic Education Programs (NGEP). Each year more than 100,000 people actively participate in GAWeek through activities, events, lessons, games, and challenges.
Geography Awareness Week
Explorer activity
cmccooey813 Started Animal:garbage ratio
lori_1203 Completed Make an Earth Sandwich
missionhungry1 Completed Macro photograph a micro world
Francesca Completed Become a remote sensor
mememoo Completed Cook your soil a meal
Rewards
Mission
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Web Maker | 240 | |||
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Edible Interdependence | 50 | |||
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ID a problem
Identify a problem that faces young people in your area: homelessness, kids without school...
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Take action! Badge | 1000 | ||
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Invisible maze
Create a maze that can’t be seen because it winds through your neighborhood. Create a map...
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Mapping Badge | 337 | ||
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Web Maker | 389 | |||
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Live below the line
Spend 5 days living on a budget of just $1.25 or £1.00 a day. ... |
Edible Interdependence | 543 | ||
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Macro photograph a micro world
Explore from a bug’s-eye view. Take photos of a place close-up to make a tiny place look...
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Photographer Badge | 325 | ||
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Make an Earth Sandwich
Find someone on the other side of the planet to finish off an Earth Sandwich by |
Web Maker | 398 | ||
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Make Your Own Internet
Use yarn to create "web art" in a public place by stringing yarn between trees or posts in an... |
Web Maker | 176 | ||
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Map stories
Ask some people who have moved to your local area the story of why they moved... |
Story-teller Badge | 378 | ||
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Edible Interdependence | 390 | |||
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Protect your heritage
Try to identify the oldest thing (it could be a person!) in your neighborhood. Start a...
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Take action! Badge | 484 | ||
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See your neighborhood as if you just moved in
Can you ‘notice’ three things that you’ve never observed before within a 5 minute walk...
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Photographer Badge | 467 | ||
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Sign story
Using only words you can find on signs in your community, tell a story about it. Include...
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Story-teller Badge | 250 | ||
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Story-teller Badge | 1010 |
