Skill Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the
world while learning important map skills and geography concepts!
Winner of the Mom's 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:
- Old and new navigation
- GPS coordinates
- Dinosaurs
- Making mountains
- Major volcanoes
- Unique habitats
- Human migrations in history
- Indigenous peoples
- World religions
- World farming traditions
- Modern transportation
- National borders
- Special animals around the world
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.
