Geography Awareness Week
Geography Awareness Week (GAWeek) is an annual public awareness program that encourages citizens young and old to think and learn about the interconnectedness of our world.
Celebrate GAWeek this year by declaring your interdependence! Challenge friends, classmates, and family members to complete missions and earn badges exploring geography and the ways in which you're connected to everything around you.
GAWeek was established by Presidential proclamation in the United States in 1987 and is organized by National Geographic Education Programs (NGEP). Each year more than 100,000 people actively participate in GAWeek through activities, events, lessons, games, and challenges.
Geography Awareness Week
Explorer activity
cmccooey813 Started Animal:garbage ratio
lori_1203 Completed Make an Earth Sandwich
missionhungry1 Completed Macro photograph a micro world
Francesca Completed Become a remote sensor
mememoo Completed Cook your soil a meal
Rewards
Mission
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Alien invasion
Photograph evidence of where a non-native plant or animal has invaded a local ecosystem....
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Photographer Badge | 444 | ||
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Animal:garbage ratio
Explore a local stream, river or lake looking for trash and animals. How many birds, mammals, fish... |
Freshwater Explorer | 847 | ||
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Award sustainable businesses
Explore your local stores and coffee shops. Which ones have the most sustainable products?...
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Take action! Badge | 675 | ||
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Edible Interdependence | 499 | |||
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Become a remote sensor
Turn a digital camera into a satellite. Hover it above the ground and take a picture of the...
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Photographer Badge | 609 | ||
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Edible Interdependence | 380 | |||
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Capture water
Photograph or sketch everything you can find that is part of the water cycle. |
Freshwater Explorer | 514 | ||
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Cook your soil a meal
Turn your food waste into a dish for some soil. |
Edible Interdependence | 46 | ||
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Create a river story
Write a story about a real or imagined journey going from the source of a river to its mouth. |
Freshwater Explorer | 770 | ||
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Cross the border
Walk (or drive or cycle) between one neighborhood and the next. When do you know that you’ve...
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Story-teller Badge | 351 | ||
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Mapping Badge | 377 | |||
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Explore like a frog
Go swimming. Move through the water like a fish, a crab, a frog, a whale and a squid. |
Freshwater Explorer | 425 | ||
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Flash dance!
Create a mashed-up and cross cultural dance routine that reveals how water is important to... |
Freshwater Explorer | 918 | ||
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Flower power
Plant some beautiful flowers or start a community garden to make a neglected place more...
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Take action! Badge | 432 | ||
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Ghost wood
They say that the suburbs are areas where “they chop down trees and then name streets after...
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Mapping Badge | 251 |
