📡 🎅 🦌 HOMESCHOOL HOLIDAYS: NORAD’s Santa Tracker is Up!

When will your Christmas presents arrive? Don’t ask Amazon, ask NORAD! The North American Air Defense Command’s annual Santa Tracker will be up shortly, and you and your homeschool students can watch the countdown to Christmas Eve midnight when NORAD’s radar will start to follow Santa and his reindeer as they deliver billions of presents all around the world.

Beginning over the Pacific Ocean, which is where Christmas Day itself first begins, Santa’s course will be on display in real time right here (and don’t miss the ab fab NORAD-Santa merchandise they have too):

• ➢ NORAD’s Santa Tracker (noradsanta.org)

NORAD has been tracking Santa for more than sixty years. Here’s an amusing three-minute report from some of the children of NORAD service-members that explains how it all works:

What grand geographical explorations and gigantic global excursions will you and your students be making in your homeschool this Orion Term? 🎅 😊

❡ Come, here’s the map: You can use this fun annual event to teach some informal geography lessons! Just get out your family atlas and have your students put a little post-it markers on the map to designate Santa’s route across the time zones. (And you can use it to learn about time zones, too — there’s a whole atlas plate showing the world’s time zones!) 📡 🎅 🌏🌍🌎

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