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By teachnkids

This has been a favorite of mine to start the year off. We do many of the ideas already mentioned, but our culmination project is two part: !)we create our own town 2) we create edible maps

Our own town---partners
come up with a name of a town, 10 places they want to feature on their town, name the places and create a symbol for each place to go on the map. Next they use large paper to make their map. It is a wonderful open ended creation. The only requirements are the ones I've stated. It is amazing to see the creativity that comes out.

Edible Maps----the following link gives the

ingredients( I often do not use the peanut butter because of allergy issues)
This time they all create a map individually---They must be able to tell me what each food item has been used for and what kind of map they have created--country, city, state, continent, etc. Once again those creative juices really amaze me. Even though this does get kind of messy it is known by the 2nd graders that come to me in 3rd that they will do this in the beginning of the year!

Good luck!