Landmarks of the World and the USA

If you're teaching a geography or research unit soon, I've got two resources options that might pair perfectly with your unit: 7 New Wonders of the World Research Posters and USA Landmarks Research Posters. One takes your students around the globe, the other has them in the USA!

What to take a look at them and see how you. kight be able to use them in your classroom?? Keep reading!

What are these resources?

7 New Wonders of the World covers seven place: Chichén Itzá, Christ the Redeemer, The Colosseum, Machu Picchu, Petra, the Taj Mahal, and the Great Wall of China. Each one comes with a student-friendly research page, a recording sheet (that is also a piece of the display), poster pieces to color, and a teacher answer key. So even if a student has zero background knowledge going in, they've got everything they need to complete their poster!

USA Landmarks Research Posters has over 20 landmarks to choose from, like the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Golden Gate Bridge, the White House, and Niagara Falls, just to name a few. This one is a bit more independent: students research on their own to complete the two poster pieces for each landmark, which makes it a great next step once your class has had some practice with researching.

Here are some ideas on using these in your classroom!

1. Start With Wonders, Then Move to Landmarks

The World Wonders pack includes the research passages built right in so, it is the perfect place to start. Once they've become comfortable pulling facts from a passage and organizing them onto a poster, move on to USA Landmarks, where they'll need to find their own information. It will be a progression from guided research to independent research, all while making fun little posters!

2. Build a "Wonders of the World" Wall AND a "Landmarks of America" Wall

Once posters are finished, hang them up side by side, one wall for world wonders, one wall for American landmarks. It's a great visual for your hallway or classroom during a geography unit, and it gives students a reason to be proud of their finished work.

3. Use Them As Research Stations

Set up a few stations with different landmarks or wonders at each one, and rotate small groups through over the course of a week. This works especially well with the World Wonders pack since the passages are already there. For example you can have a total of 7 stations, students work their way through each station. Learning about each landmark and creating their posters. For USA Landmarks, just add a few books or approved websites at each station so kids have something to pull facts from.

4. Perfect for Substitute Plans or Early Finishers

Both of these are basically grab-and-go activities. Keep a folder of these posters ready, and any time you need a sub plan or have a student who finishes early, they can pick a landmark or wonder and get started.

5. Tie It Into a Geography Lesson

Before or after completing the posters, pull up a world map (or grab my Collaborative World Map or USA Research Collaborative Map!) and have students locate their landmark or wonder. It's such an easy way to build in some map skills alongside the research.

Whether you use these back to back or just pick the one that fits your unit right now, both are ready to go!

You can grab them here below!

7 New Wonders of the World and USA Landmarks Research Posters