This document provides instructions for an edible map activity where students will work in groups to create and eat maps of Australia using cookie dough and other edible items to represent important physical features. Each group will need to memorize key locations like the Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock, and Great Dividing Range. Students will use items like chocolate kisses to decorate their maps which they will build from memory and share at the end of the activity after being tested on their knowledge. Parental permission is required for any students eating the raw cookie dough.

1. Name: ____________
Australia Edible Map TEST
As we study Australia, you will be required to learn several important physical features on the map.
However, this time we are going to make AND eat our test instead of writing on it! Here are the
directions:
1. You will work in groups of two or three. Write your partners’ names below:
________________________________________________________________________________.
2. EACH PERSON needs to memorize the following map items:
Coral Sea Ayers Rock
Great Victoria Desert Great Barrier Reef
Great Dividing Range Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean Canberra
3. I will provide cookie dough for the foundation. Each group must decide on decorations to represent
the different map items. (Example: Hershey’s Kisses for mountains.) Be creative with your map items;
and remember—you get to eat what you use on your map!  NOTE: We will NOT be baking the
cookie dough. We will eat it raw. You must have the attached permission slip signed in order to eat
the dough.
4. On the day of the activity, each group will make their edible maps from MEMORY and I will test
each group on their knowledge. At the end of class, the group will share their cookie dough map!
ACTIVITY DATE: Friday, April 3
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2. __________________________________________________________________________________
I give permission for ____________________________________ to eat the raw cookie dough after the
map activity.
*If you are not comfortable with your child eating the cookie dough, they can still participate in the
activity. They will be able to eat any of the other edible materials that they bring in for the map test.
Parent signature: ________________________________________________________________________