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National Geographic: Geography Awareness Week ActivityNational Geographic: Geography Awareness Week Activity
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National Geographic: Geography Awareness Week

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This resource is the portal to all the resources National Geographic provides for celebrating Geography Awareness Week, which occurs the third week of November. Find the toolkit, archives of previous celebrations, videos, and mapmaking links.

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mapmaking, november

Additional Tags

geographical anaysis, geography awareness week, national geographic, geography

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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