Today's Classroom Activities :

Do You Have Your Passport?

Passport Privileges
Research/Social Studies Passports have been used for centuries to insure safe passage for citizens of one country or tribe through another. Research the passports that were particular wooden carvings of African tribes. Compare these with passports of today. How have passports changed? How are they the same? Work with another class and have each class design a passport to allow students to pass from one class to the other.

Passport to Stories Around the World
Using this activity students will read six tales, one from each of six continents and fill out a "passport" as they read. A student work sheet provided.

Passports: Crossing Cultural Borders
In this activity, students in grades 2-12 will identify where they (or their families) come from on a map. Based on the countries where they and their classmates are from, they will create a list of places to "visit" and receive a passport to help them record where they have been and what they have learned.

Passport to the Eastern Hemisphere
Students use a printable passport and explore a country through research. Intended for seventh graders, but adaptable.

Take a trip to the Streets of Learning where no suitcase is necessary for this trip – a school-wide learning fair turns every classroom thoroughfare into an educational voyage.