National Geography Week preparations

Grade Level: 6

Objective: To celebrate geography through creating a community event and to learn about ecology and economics through engaging with the question of where our food comes from.

GeoWeek is November 17-23rd.  K and I have decided to highlight GeoWeek in our community through an event we're organizing tomorrow at lunch.

Our celebration has three components:
1-Make and share a map of food sources for our community
2-Make an apple pie, calculating what percentage of that pie is made from ingredients produced or grown in the state of Washington
3-Trade pieces of pie for geography facts during a community-wide geography celebration tomorrow at lunch

Mapping where our foods are grown and manufactured: regionally, nationally, and internationally 

Places we import (some of) our food from:
Chelan, WA-0 miles (apples, lettuce)

Stehekin, WA-0 miles (by car) (kale)

Tonasket, WA-80 miles (beef)

Eugene, OR-174 miles (coffee)

Roy, WA-213 miles (eggs)

Palouse, WA-213 miles (flour, lentils, garbanzo beans)

Euphrata, WA-61.2 miles (cod, salmon)

Brewster, WA-27.2 miles (potatoes)

Seattle, WA-180 miles (cream, milk, cheese)

Twisp, WA-52.3 miles (whole wheat flour)

Pendleton, OR-238 miles (pork)

California (Sysco Central)-aprox. 872 miles (lettuce, oranges, cream of wheat)

Guatemala-aprox. 3,551 miles (coffee)

Alaska-aprox. 2,281 miles (cod, salmon)