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Bel Aire Geography Bee Information

This competition is open to 4th and 5th grade students only!
All students must register on-line HERE
Registration Deadline: Friday, Jan 10, 2020

Each year​ Bel Aire School participates in the National Geographic Bee, which is an annual competition organized by the National Geographic Society. The first level of the competition begins here at Bel Aire School. Our Preliminary Bee will held on Monday, Jan. 27-31, 2020 during lunch recess at 12:10.  There will be one school winner who will have a chance to compete for a place in the state competition by taking a written, multiple-choice qualifying test on Jan. 31. 

In preparation for the GeoBee, checkout the “Study Corner” and “Sample Questions” on the National Geographic website HERE. Everyone can test their geography knowledge with the exciting GeoBee Challenge, an online geography quiz, and be sure to download the “National Geographic GeoBee Challenge” app!

The Study Corner will give you lesson plans to help you study. We suggest finding some study partners and then start studying this beautiful earth of ours, including:

• United States
  • Locations of each state; major cities, bodies of water, land features
• World
  • Locations of each of the seven continents and four oceans (including major rivers and bodies of water); locations of countries, major cities of countries around the world; 
  • Knowledge of place names and of the location of physical features around the globe.​
  • Knowledge of physical regions and landforms (i.e mountains, plains, grasslands, deserts), size, climate, bodies of water, soils around the globe.
• Africa
  • Locations of each of the 54 countries of Africa

Good luck to all participants!
     Dr. Artis, Mrs. Tuatagaloa, Ms. Sobhani, and Ms. Morphy
     Your Geography Bee Advisors