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This geography and cartography program uses an activity-based approach to learning geography. Beginning with drawing maps from memory and a "grapefruit" activity that simulates the difficulty of representing spherical information on a flat surface, the program teaches the major geographic elements of each continent, cultural geography using a "world's fair" activity, active geography games, all culminating in an end of the year, three week activity called "mapping the world by heart," in which students use the information and skills they have learned all year to create accurate world maps from memory. The program includes reproducible maps and other materials, and a teacher training video.