The Compass

The dramatic route is the wrong one. The data says so.

The Compass appoints your sixth graders as royal cartographers asked to recommend the best route for a new trade road. Over ten days the dramatic Mountain Pass keeps calling, and the survey data keeps pointing to the unglamorous valley. The students who follow the evidence over the story make the right call. It is geography and judgment together.

See what your students get, and why it lands.

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A worksheet was never going to teach this.

Your sixth graders are not reading about maps. They are royal cartographers deciding where a kingdom's trade road should go. The Mountain Pass is dramatic and tempting; the river valley is dull and, the data says, the right answer. Every day the exciting route pulls at them and the surveys push back. The students who weigh the evidence over the story recommend the road that actually works. That is geographic reasoning, with a kingdom depending on it.

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They are graded on their reasoning, not on the route.

Here is what surprises teachers. A student who picked the right road is not graded higher than one who did not. The answer is not the point. Students are assessed on the quality of their reasoning, traced through their own daily journal. A careful recommendation that turned out wrong scores higher than a lucky guess. That is how a sixth grader learns to value sound judgment over a correct answer.

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Let the workbook hold the surveys.

The Compass comes with a workbook that organizes every survey, cost, and condition for each route. The student logs the data, and the comparison builds across the ten days. Their attention stays on the hard part, which route the evidence actually supports, instead of on keeping the numbers straight.

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Every day is already scripted. You just run the room.

You do not need a geography background to teach this. The guide scripts every day, names what students will likely say, and gives you exactly how to respond. The surveys, the testimonials, and the final recommendation are all written for you. You bring the facilitation. The simulation brings everything else.

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The lesson plan is already written.

Every simulation comes with a fully editable, admin-ready lesson plan. Standards alignment, daily pacing, learning objectives, differentiation, and an assessment plan are already done, so you can hand it to an administrator or adapt it to your district template in minutes.

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Everything you need to run it.