SSCS third graders in Brittany Pitonza’s class learned recently about the world’s geography by creating salt dough maps featuring the continents and the oceans. Salt dough maps are a hands-on, 3D geography project created by mixing flour, salt, and warm water, then forming it over cardboard maps to create physical features. This proved to be an ideal lesson for improving students’ understanding of landforms, topography, and map identification.
