NEWBERRY — Students at Newberry Middle School recently got a
chance to use a National Geographic Giant Traveling Map.
National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps are enormously
entertaining and educationally powerful tools for introducing
geography and map reading skills to students, grades K-8. What
better way to teach young people the power of maps and the
limitless depth of geography than a basketball court-sized map
of a continent on which they can explore, travel from country to
country, hop around, compete, collaborate and have lots of fun?
National Geographic’s Giant Traveling Maps tour the country’s
schools, bringing hands- and feet-on geography education to
hundreds of thousands students each year. Designed to promote
geographic literacy by igniting interest in geography, the maps
and accompanying activities incorporate physical movement and
games to teach students place names, physical geography, and
cultural geography as well as map reading skills. Newberry
Middle School was given the opportunity to u