World Traveler Geography and Math Research Project

World Traveler Geography and Math Project

This is a cross-curricular learning project that integrates social studies, math, geography, research, and writing. To complete this project, students travel to different continents as they take a world tour of six different countries. Through their travels, they will learn the location of these countries along with important facts about the culture. This is a great activity for the end of the year or enrichment any time!

The countries students will visit and learn about include:

Australia
Brazil
China
Egypt
Germany
Russia

SKILLS:

To get to each destination, students must use their budgeted money to buy plane tickets. They will also:

use 3-digit subtraction with regrouping to calculate how much money is left after each purchase
calculate elapsed time to find the length of each flight
find and mark each location on a world map
label the continents on a map
label the compass rose with cardinal directions

Students record their travels in a passport booklet. They will research each location to complete its page in the passport with the following information for each country:

continent
capital city
official language
currency
climate
important landmark

Kid-safe website suggestions for conducting research are included.

The first page of the passport is the travel budget. Students use this page to keep track of their tickets and calculate how much money they have left after each purchase.

The last three pages of the passport include a landmark matching activity, a page with addition, subtraction, and elapsed time questions, and descriptive and opinion writing activities.

After traveling to all six destinations, students will: