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Pen Pal Parcels
Parcels arrive from pen pals in Ghana, Chile and Japan, each with something made there that we buy and a note on how their place changed this year; the class sends back something made here and pins each parcel on the globe.
- Play style
- Explorer
- Module
- Pen Pal Parcels: Products that connect us to faraway places; how places change
- Grade
- Grade 2 · Social Studies
- Standards
D2.Geo.10.K-2D2.Geo.11.K-2D2.Eco.15.K-2
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