Description
Skill Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts!
Winner of the Moms Choice Gold Seal Award for the best family-friendly products, this colorful activity book excites children to learn about the world around them and practice cross-curricular skills that integrate current geography standards.
Each geography topic includes nonfiction reading selections, comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, writing prompts, and authentic activities that bring the concepts to life. These activities invite your child to be creative while using higher-order thinking skills.
The reading selections and activities take students beyond basic geographic understandings and into unique ecosystems, biomes, places and regions, histories, cultures, and social movements within our world. Students make personal connections to their learning by completing expository and creative writing activities as well as hands-on geography projects.
Engaging concepts covered include:
Storms on Earth
Special places on Earth
Iceland
Unique trees
Death Valley and deserts
Landform maps
Colliding plates
Altitudes
Immigration
Angel Island
UNESCO
Dealing with water
Scuba diving
Sea pirates
Sea travel
Includes answer key.
Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The Skill Sharpeners: Geography Teaching Guides include:
How to Use directions for teaching geography
Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities
Teaching suggestions for incorporating geography discussion questions
Extension activities such as a geography journal, graphic organizers, and field trip suggestions
About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Published: 01/01/2018
Series: Skill Sharpeners Geography
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781629384733
Language: English
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