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Each fifth grader in Andrea Ketcham鈥檚 class in Eminence, Kentucky, has been charged with creating a world and asking someone else to navigate it. In this interdisciplinary project, students use a range of skills鈥攆rom spatial awareness and mapmaking to communication skills and coding. To touch on English language arts standards, students use descriptive language to write about their imaginary land. Next, to align with social studies standards, they鈥檙e tasked with drawing a map depicting it, complete with key features like grid points and a compass rose. When their maps are complete, the students come up with questions that challenge a classmate to identify characteristics of their land and program to follow directions and get to a specific destination. By the end, students have mastered content from multiple subject areas鈥攁nd stayed engaged and excited through the whole process. 

To learn more about the research behind the practices seen in the video, check out the resources below. 

• Judith M. Harackiewicz, Jessi L. Smith, and Stacy J. Priniski鈥檚 (2016)
• Sally P. W. Wu and Martina A. Rau鈥檚 (2019)
• Logan Fiorella and Shelbi Kuhlmann鈥檚 (2020)
• Myra A. Fernandes, Jeffrey D. Wammes, and Melissa E. Meade鈥檚 (2018)
• Maja Umek鈥檚 (2010)