1. Using a world map, have students plot all the places that are listed in the song. Have students locate latitude and longitude for all the places listed in the song (intermediate grade level).
2. Assign to groups or individual students a place listed in the song. Have them do some research so that they can create one question about the place they are researching. Collect all the questions that the groups or individual students created. Enter those questions into a crossword puzzle website to create a crossword puzzle for the kids to complete. Kids enjoy entering their own questions but if you don't have time, there are 2 crossworld puzzles attached to this guide. One for primary and one for intermediate. This guide used the following website to create crossword puzzles but there are others that you may be more familiar with (grades 2 and up): http://www.supercrosswordcreator.com
3. Create a post card about your state or town. On the post card point out all the great sites Red should visit in your state or town. Send the post card to Red (or give it to him when he arrives at your school). Red would really like to know what he should see and do when visiting your area. If you choose to mail the post card to Red, use the following address: Red Note Records, 5049 Orangeport Rd., Brewerton, NY 13029 (grades 3 and 4).
4. Here is an idea that could be used in a presentation to parents or for a school assembly: Teacher(s) give students a card with the name of a place form the song. The student researches to find which continent it is located on. Either on the playground or on a stage, use tape to outline the continents. Each child sits within the outline of the continent that is the place on selected card. The class sings the song. As each student's "place" is named, he raises the name card overhead and then lowers it. Video tape it for your school web site. (intermediate grade levels)
5. Using the list of Geography terms, have each student take a name of a place from the song and see how many geography terms they can find for their named place. Geography terms include: basin, bay, canal, canyon, coast, dam, delta, desert, fault, glaciers, gulf, harbor, hill, island, lake, mesa, mountain, mountain pass, mouth, ocean, peninsula, plain, plateau, port, reservoir, river, source, valley, volcano. (intermediate grade levels)
6. Pick one of the places Red sings about and create a travel brochure or poster, Display around the school. (intermediate grade levels)
7. Red sings about mountain, deserts, plains and jungles in this song. Make a diagram of these and more. The image included in this guide comes from the Pinterest Web Site. (grades 2 and up).
