Geography Project: Create Your Own Nation and Map Skills!

This Geography Project is the perfect end of year activity or ANY TIME activity! Students will review and practice a variety of map skills as they create their own nations!

It is a fun alternative to a Geography worksheet as students have the opportunity practice a variety of map skills through this project!

This Geography Project Includes:

1. Map Skills Review PowerPoint Lesson
2. Geographic Features and Landforms Review
3. Guided Notes that Follow Along with the Lesson
4. Imagi-Nation Project Directions and Rough Draft Page
5. Rubric
6. Example Pictures

Students will Review the Following Map Skills:

• Parts of a Map: Title, Compass Rose, Scale, and Map Key
• Physical, Political, and Thematic Maps
• Lines of Latitude and Longitude
• Landforms and Geographic Features
• Natural Resources

I have used this project with my 5th graders of years and they absolutely LOVE IT!

REVIEWS FROM OTHER TEACHERS:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alexandra S. said, “My 5th graders LOVED this project and it opened up many conversations about what to look for on maps and why things are included!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shannon B. said, This was a great activity! My students loved it. I used it with 7th and 8th graders and they were completely engaged."

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Take a look at my other history lessons:

• Civil War and Reconstruction Unit

• Westward Expansion Unit

• The Suffrage Movement

• The Early 1900’s Unit

• American Expansionism

• World War I Unit

• The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Unit

• World War 2 Unit

• The Cold War Conflicts

• Civil Rights Movement

• Economics Unit

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