Race Across the World KS3 Challenge - Plan Your Epic Journey!
Embark on an exciting challenge to plan a low-budget route across a continent for your Geography project inspired by the Race Across the World series. Watch episodes, choose a continent, select two locations, divide the journey, plan stay and visits, calculate costs and carbon footprint, and present creatively to win prizes. Get ready for a thrilling adventure and test your geographical skills in this unique summer project!
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Race across the world KS3 challenge Objectives: To be able to plan a route across a continent, using as little money as possible To have fun and potentially win a prize in the process!
Race across the world KS3 challenge For the summer holidays we have a final project for you to undertake for your work in Geography this year. It is based around the Race Across the World series that was on BBC2 recently. Follow the instructions on the next slide and then submit your work to your Geography teacher. You won t be set any other work during this time! The winning entry will receive a prize of a 20 high street voucher and there will also be smaller prizes for those pupils that come 2ndand 3rd. The deadline for submissions is FRIDAY 28THAUGUST. Good luck and enjoy!
The task instructions 1.Watch the first episode of series 2 of Race Across the World on the BBC iPlayer at this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g6nt/race-across-the-world-series-2- episode-1. (There are more episodes available - you can watch them all if you want to!) 2. Choose one of these continents: Asia Africa North America South America Europe 3. Choose 2 places to travel between at opposite ends of your chosen continent e.g. if you chose Europe you may pick Madrid and Moscow. 4. Split the journey into sections (between 4 and 6). You may wish to produce a summary table to show each section of the journey with approximate distances between each place, and the total distance for your journey in your table. 5. Plan each section of the journey (as if there were no Covid 19 related travel restrictions!), including the following: How you will travel? Like in the programme, air travel is not allowed! Where will you stay each night? What you will visit on the way? Think interesting sights, museums, historical attractions you decide! What will the costs be? Calculate an approximate cost for each section of the journey and total cost for the trip. Try to be as thrifty as possible; the show s contestants get very little money! How will your journey impact the environment? Can you calculate a rough carbon footprint for your journey? What could you do to reduce this? You can choose how to present your work, a PowerPoint, leaflet, video, etc. As long as you can email it to your teacher. I have included an example for you on the next slide.
This map shows the route from Vladivostok to Harbin. It is 508km as the crow flies. We will take a bus to the Russia/China border for approx 11; then train to Harbin for approx. 26 St Bede s Geography department route: Vladivostok to Istanbul (across Asia) Day 1 Vladivostok (Russia) to Harbin (China) We will go to the Harbin Ice and Snow festival when we re there! We found this cheap place to stay! We will stay at the Harbin North International Youth Hostel for 3 for one night.
Useful websites to help you get started It is best to do your own Google searches but the websites below are a good starting point, other options are available too! www.expedia.co.uk for accommodation https://www.hostelworld.com/ - for cheap youth hostel accommodation https://www.booking.com/ - for accommodation and travel https://www.statravel.co.uk/ - for accommodation, travel (bus and train) worldwide https://www.raileurope.com/ - train costs in Europe https://www.flixbus.co.uk/ - bus travel in Europe https://www.lonelyplanet.com/ - worldwide travel info You could also check out the tourist board website for any country you want to visit on your journey, such as the ones below, search the country name and tourist board then look for the official website listing: https://vietnam.travel/home - Tourist board Vietnam https://magicalkenya.com/ - tourist board Kenya
Student table adapt to your liking: Stage Start and end point for this stage Bangalore to Kathmandu (Nepal) Distance (kilometres, KM) 1800 Details of transport and cost Where will you stay and cost Places you will visit on journey, cost and why Total cost of this stage Additional notes about this stage 1 Taj Mahal Mt Everest 2 Kathmandu to Yangon (Myanmar) 2500 3 Yangon to Bangkok (Thailand) 850 Chang Mai 4 Bangkok to Hanoi (Vietnam) 1300 5 Hanoi to Shanghai (China) 2000 Ha Long Bay 6 Shanghai to Beijing 1200
