Geography Projects for Middle School
Add a few geography projects for middle school to your lesson plan. They make learning about the world more engaging for tweens.
Middle school geography can be so much fun!
Below you’ll find some geography project ideas that are perfect for older kids.
They’ll help your child learn about different places and cultures while giving them the chance to showcase their creativity.
Homeschoolers are always on the lookout for creative ways to engage middle schoolers. One subject often gets overlooked – geography.
But with the right project ideas, you can teach your child about the world around them while getting them excited.
Geography Projects for Middle School
As middle schoolers continue growing and developing, they’re able to dive deeper into various concepts. So now is the time to assign more complex activities.
This is where the geography projects below come in handy.
But first, you need to decide whether to make room for this subject.
Why Teach Geography?
With everything you have to fit into a homeschool day, you might wonder if you really need to include geography in your curriculum. After all, it’s not one of the core subjects like math and language arts, right?
However, before you cut geography from your lesson plans, consider this: geography offers a wide range of benefits beyond just memorizing capitals and country names.
Geography helps students understand the interconnectedness of our world. It teaches them about different cultures. As well as how human behavior is shaped by environmental factors like climate, resources and transportation networks.
It gives tweens a global perspective and teaches them how to think critically about the world around them.
A great way to get geography lessons into your teen’s day is to make it interactive through geography activities, geography-related board games, and hands-on projects.
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Benefits of Geography Projects
Project-based learning helps kids become better at problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication.
As they build relief maps or create a 3D model of a city landmark, tweens are interacting with the subject in a way that textbooks can’t provide.
They learn how to find and organize information into something physical that they can display or share. Building valuable research skills along the way.
For the most part, geography projects foster creativity. Students can use their imaginations to create colorful maps or a video about a specific region.
This type of interactive learning helps kids to remember the information better.
All things considered, it’s often much more enjoyable than just memorizing facts from a textbook.
With the right geography project, you can help your homeschooler develop skills like research, problem-solving and critical thinking while getting them excited to explore and understand our world!
Geography Projects
Make geography fun and relevant for your tweens with various projects that you can do in your home.
Enhance your tween's mapping skills by teaching them how to use a compass to determine north. This project will also show them how to make their own compass using a magnet.
During your physical geography lessons, have kids build their own sinkholes out of sugar cubes. It will teach them about karst terrain and show them why sinkholes appear.
Tweens will love building their own salt dough maps. It's a project that can be used when you're studying US or world geography.
Have your tweens choose a country and then work on this research project. As they do this geographical report, they'll put together a display board to show everyone details about the country.
This is a great long term geography project for middle schoolers to work on.
While studying world geography, put together a 3D model of a famous landmark from a chosen country. Use a kit or put one together using LEGOS.
During your study of physical geography, have your tweens put together a diorama to highlight something they've learned.
They could design a biome, build different landforms, or highlight a place they'd like to visit.
Work together to make your own globe out of paper mâché.
As part of your geography study, have your tweens choose a country and design a travel brochure to encourge others to visit.
They can include facts they've learned about the location as well as some interesting tourism information.
Let your tweens use their creativity and map skills to create their own nation.
Have your kids collect a bunch of stats for cool geographical information they find throughout the semester or unit. Then, they can use various graphs and charts to display the information.
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Which hands-on project is your favorite?
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