Geography Activities

San Jose Area Geography

This video was made to advertise how wonderful San Jose California was in 1951. Watch it with someone who lived at that time. What does your guest or guests think about this video? What has changed? Has anything remained the same? Could you make an ad about San Jose or the city or town you live in?

A Day in the Life of...

Here is an example of what many people took pictures of about life in San Francisco all in one single day.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCpeKanDXHU

Could you create something like this for your own city or town or place where you live with your group? What about a day in the life of a kid in your town? What other ideas would you have that would explain in pictures what it is really like to live in the place you do?