Around the World in 180 Days

Children always dream of traveling to exotic places around the world. The excitement of the unknown sparks their sense of adventure and leads them to discovering new places and information. The subject of Social Studies allows them to do just that. Social Studies curriculum requires you to study different locations or major times in history. In order to get your students excited about what they are going to be studying, introduce them to the trip of their lifetime with their very own Passports!

Begin by allowing your students to personalize their own passport with stickers. The passport will be brought out at the start of any new topic for them to enter information. Examples of this would be having them draw a picture of the location or writing 5 facts that they learn about it. Information can be gathered from movies or books. If you are presenting information with a movie, try having your students set up their chairs in rows like an airplane. This will help to provide them with the full travel experience. Be sure to have a stamp on hand to approve their passports as they get on board the learning plane.

Another fun activity to help students get excited about Social Studies is to have them pack a suitcase. To do this you can use assorted colors or regular manila drawing paper folded in half to make the suitcase. Don’t forget to cut out your handle! Just like the passports each student can personalize the front of his or her suitcase. As they travel from place to place the inside of the suitcase will be filled with pictures or facts about all the places they’ve been. The suitcase gives you a little more room for creativity and allows students to paste printed pictures that you provide them in their bag.

Help your students to learn about locations all around the world with one of these fun ideas! You can take them to places such as China, Australia, Mexico, Japan, Africa and more! You can even help them to learn about the Native Americans or time period’s such as medieval times. These activities are sure to keep your students well cultured as they soar through 180 days of fun, adventurous social studies material.

“Broaden your horizons, the more you see the more you understand”

-Anonymous