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This is a PowerPoint presentation for my 8th grade Social Studies classes. It is the final one of the year - designed to give them some familiarity with well known landmarks from around the world.
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8th Grade Social Studies
… is proud to present…
… Your Final Mapping Quiz!!
Landmarks of the World
You will mark all these landmarks on your world map on the front of your
packet.
Insert slide here with picture of one of the students modeling the worksheet they will fill out as we go.
Includes photo of each landmark, country or state and two facts about the landmark.
We are trying to teach our 8th graders to take better, less literal notes. At the moment, they will write exactly what we tell them to – no more, no less. This will be another exercise in using judgment in what to put into their notes.
Angkor WatCambodia
Aswan DamEgypt
Bullet TrainJapan
• The Tōkaidō Shinkansen is the world's busiest high-speed rail line. Carrying 375,000 passengers a day, it has transported more passengers (4.5 billion) than all other high speed lines in the world combined. (-Wikipedia)
• 500 km/hr = 310 mph
Burj DubaiDubai, United Arab Emirates
Channel TunnelEnglish Channel
Leaning Tower of PisaPisa, Italy
Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ColiseumRome, Italy
Eifel TowerParis, France
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, California
Great Wall of China
China
The KremlinMoscow, Russia
Cave PaintingsLascaux, France
Machu PicchuAndes Mountains, Peru
Western Deeps Mine
South Africa
"The deepest mine in this region (Witwatersrand) is currently Western Deep mine, a network of tunnels which penetrates 3.5 km into the Earth's crust.“
- Hart-Davis, Adam. Deepest Mine. BBC and Open University, 2002.
3.5 kilometers = 2.17479917 mi
MoaiEaster Island, Ecuador
Great MosquesTimbuktu, Mali
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota, United States
Sidney Opera House
Sidney, NSW, Australia
AcropolisAthens, Greece
PyramidsGiza, Egypt
Sagrada FamiliaBarcelona, Spain
St. Louis ArchSt. Louis, Missouri
StonehengeEngland, United Kingdom
Taj MahalAgra, India
TikalGuatemala
Trans Siberian Railway
Russia
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