Skills Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and Geography concepts.
Engaging concepts covered include: - Earth from space - Early explorers - National parks - Antarctica - Amazon - Glaciers - Rainforests - Ancient Greece - Roman waterways - Time zones - Large water systems - Protecting the environment - Future of Earth\'s water Includes answer key..
Students make personal connections to their learning by completing expository and creative writing activities as well as hands-on Geography projects.
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.
These activities invite your child to be creative while using higher order-thinking skills.
Each Geography topic includes nonfiction reading selections, comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, writing prompts, and authentic activities that bring the concepts to life.
The cross-curricular activities integrate the most current Geography standards.
Skills Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and Geography concepts
