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
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Cook your soil a meal
Turn your food waste into a dish for some soil. |
Edible Interdependence | 46 | ||
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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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Edible Interdependence | 50 | |||
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Web Maker | 162 | |||
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Web Maker | 171 | |||
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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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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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Web Maker | 240 | |||
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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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Ghost wood
They say that the suburbs are areas where “they chop down trees and then name streets after...
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Mapping Badge | 251 | ||
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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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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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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 | 348 | |||
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Cross the border
Walk (or drive or cycle) between one neighborhood and the next. When do you know that you’ve...
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Story-teller Badge | 351 |
