Students learn all about Asia




CROSS COUNTRY—Chaparral Elementary School students traverse the world's largest continent when the National Geographic Giant Traveling Map of Asia visited their Calabasas school. The map is one in a series of giant maps that is traveling the country, giving students the ultimate experience in visual learning. Asia is nearly five times as large as Australia, the world's smallest continent.

CROSS COUNTRY—Chaparral Elementary School students traverse the world’s largest continent when the National Geographic Giant Traveling Map of Asia visited their Calabasas school. The map is one in a series of giant maps that is traveling the country, giving students the ultimate experience in visual learning. Asia is nearly five times as large as Australia, the world’s smallest continent.


Walking from one side of Asia to the other may seem like an impossible feat, but it was all in a day’s lesson for the students at Chaparral Elementary School in Calabasas recently when the National Geographic’s Giant Traveling Map of Asia visited the school.

Students from kindergarten through fifth grade took off their shoes and walked the massive map.

The map, 41 by 31 feet, was designed by National Geographic as a geo-game board for students to explore the diverse geography of Asia.

The Asia map is the second in the Giant Traveling Map series. Africa, the first in the series, began touring in 2006.

Approximately 50,000 students in 26 states have now walked across the two continents.

The maps come with accessories, including geography adventures, interactive games, atlases, books, videos and music that teach students about the physical characteristics of the continents as well as the history and varied cultures.

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