Students will launch the Kentucky Globetrotter Passport Office, use the giant wall map to locate Kentucky as Home Base, begin their passports, and practice first-step geographic language through partner map talk, reflection, and a checkpoint that sets up later evidence collection.

Students will investigate how map tools and geographic features help plan journeys from Kentucky by studying a travel mystery, choosing a focused class question, writing a hypothesis, and building a clear method for collecting evidence in passports and route maps. They will practice noticing, questioning, documenting, peer feedback, and revision so their geography records are accurate and useful for later analysis.

Students will collect and document geography evidence from the giant wall map and other geographic representations, use peer and teacher feedback to improve passport checkpoints, and complete a midpoint quality check so their records are accurate enough for later analysis about how regions compare to Kentucky and how geographic features affect people.

Students will analyze the map, photo, satellite image, and passport evidence they collected to explain how physical and cultural characteristics affect people in Kentucky and selected world regions. They will create annotated visuals, test their ideas in peer critique rounds, revise their conclusions, and prepare a short class video segment that shares evidence-based geographic thinking with families.

Students will finalize and share their geography findings through a class showcase video and passport-based map talk, then reflect on how their evidence, revisions, and comparisons helped them answer the project questions about planning journeys and understanding regions.