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Sports Card Geography!Sports card geography is a great coursework spicer. Places to locate, plot, and survey. Satellite images to research. Topography to scope out and contour maps to draw. And more!
Travel and Route Planning Assigning Values Averages Graphs Scale, Keys, and Legends Transportation and Community Access You’ll want a humongous map of North America, or the world if you're ambitious, for this part. Older students might also need road maps, bus or plane schedules, tourist information packages, and demographic information.
Computer Research Diagramming & Sketching Group Work Presentation & Reporting Short & Long Term Projects Here are some activity sets to try out with your students. Modify and add these to your bag of teaching ideas. Set 1 Individual, Surveys, Data collection, Hypothesis From a small set of sports cards, plot the birthplaces of players on a map. From Junior grade, individual students or small groups can continue forward from plotting birthplaces. 
Set 2 Individual, Data collection, large group presentation What aerial photographs and/or satellite images can students locate to Choose any two transportation systems or combinations and present choices to class. Set 3 Regional research, Data choice, Presentation, Discussion Choose a major geographic feature in your region and create a riddle about it that would make a great corner challenge for the back of a player’s card. Visit the website of the appropriate regional government. Find another two facts online about your geographic or geologic region that would provide good names for a new team.
Sports cards from different sports as well as other countries present even more opportunities for broader student research, surveys, data collection, hypothesis, and presentation.
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