🎵 Down by the bay 🎵
Where the watermelons grow...
Do you remember that song from your childhood? My kids used to listen to Raffi ALL. THE. TIME.
But what if your students don't know what a bay is?
- How can they understand
- the importance of cities built in the safety of one
- What a bay provides that more open space doesn't
- When location in a bay can be dangerous
- Whether significant battles were fought in bays
- What the difference is between a bay and a gulf
If we have a block of several weeks, I allow students to create their own countries. This is a fun PBL (project-based learning) activity that blends learning about actual landforms and oceans with a country they create around a theme. Students have to use all twenty landforms and oceans, and several other geographic features and they have to create a written history of their country.
It's the perfect blend of Geography, Art, and Writing. You can take a look at this popular project here.
- If you are looking for Social Studies materials for next year, there's an amazing sale that starts next week!
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