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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Mapping Badge | 704 | |||
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Watch sunrise at sunset
At sunset in your location find a webcam that is just before dawn in its location. Enjoy your... |
Web Maker | 232 | ||
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Walk your footprint
Estimate the size of your ecological footprint. How long does it take you to walk from its...
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Mapping Badge | 1000 | ||
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Web Maker | 348 | |||
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Web Maker | 171 | |||
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Trash art
Go out with a trash bag and collect trash. Turn the items into a piece of art and try to get...
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Take action! Badge | 449 | ||
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Tell an object’s story
‘Interview’ something that you’ve bought that was made in or comes from another country....
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Story-teller Badge | 351 | ||
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Web Maker | 162 | |||
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Speak Up For Geography!
Tell Congress to support the Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act. Take action today at... |
Take action! Badge | 50 | ||
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Snap your community’s image
Photograph the things that you think hold your community together and create its...
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Photographer Badge | 1000 | ||
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Smelly-vision
Make a map of smells instead of sights in your neighborhood and think of a key to describe...
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Mapping Badge | 259 | ||
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Story-teller Badge | 1010 | |||
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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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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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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 |
