Overview

Race Around the World was developed to teach cultural geographic knowledge. The writing, math, geography, science, and technology are scaffolded within a class (and/or interclass) competition as students delve into an analysis of their world and its seven billion inhabitants.

Objectives:
 * 1) To familiarize the students with a regional understanding of world geography, science, or teacher-directed content as they develop a strategy to explore the world and virtually travel their planned route, researching and learning about the world;
 * 2) To develop and refine authentic writing skills;
 * 3) To increase research skills, using library resources, maps, almanacs and the Internet; and
 * 4) To provide motivation, as students are awarded prizes at the end of the game for those who traveled (1) the greatest distance; (2) the fastest; and (3) spent the least amount of money.