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The Geography Book: Activities for Exploring, Mapping, and Enjoying Your World
Get to Know the Earth's Many Forms with Dozens of Fun and EasyProjects
From finding directions by the stars, to mapping your neighborhood,to making an earthquake in a box, you'll have a great time learningabout the world with The Geography Book. You'll find out how todetermine location on the Earth, how maps can provide us with awide range of information, how different landforms were created,how water has helped shape the Earth, and much more.
Using simple materials you'll be able to find around the house orin your neighborhood, you'll be able to create things like a giantcompass rose, a balloon globe, a contour potato, a map puzzle, anda tornado in a jar. So get ready for a fascinating trip around theglobe.
From finding directions by the stars, to mapping your neighborhood,to making an earthquake in a box, you'll have a great time learningabout the world with The Geography Book. You'll find out how todetermine location on the Earth, how maps can provide us with awide range of information, how different landforms were created,how water has helped shape the Earth, and much more.
Using simple materials you'll be able to find around the house orin your neighborhood, you'll be able to create things like a giantcompass rose, a balloon globe, a contour potato, a map puzzle, anda tornado in a jar. So get ready for a fascinating trip around theglobe.
- GenresGeographyNonfiction
112 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 2001
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August 15, 2021
Carefully skimmed for the theme of Geography in Children's Books group, August 2021. I currently have no access to children... but I believe young me would have enjoyed doing some of these.
I appreciate that it includes both human and physical geography, and makes the distinction. It also has a progression of the difficulty of the activities & the sophistication of the concepts... I recommend educators, including home-schooling families, don't do a unit on maps and try to do lots of the activities, but rather that they do one activity a month or so, perhaps with a few other reinforcing mini lessons in between.
Included are explorations of a weather map, a population dot map, map vs. globe, etc. Nice design & illustrations. Also includes glossary, further reading, and index.
Better activities for some concepts exist. I recommend making iced tea (simply put 3-4 bags per quart in a plastic pitcher, fill about 2/3 w/ water, set it in the sun (on top of a car works great) for a few hours, bring inside to discard tea bags, fill the rest of the way with water, refrigerate) for the concept of Solar Energy. Greenhouse Effect is even easier... just compare the inside of the car (or the outer lobby of some banks, schools, etc) to the outside temperature.
Still, I highly recommend this to parents and other educators.
I appreciate that it includes both human and physical geography, and makes the distinction. It also has a progression of the difficulty of the activities & the sophistication of the concepts... I recommend educators, including home-schooling families, don't do a unit on maps and try to do lots of the activities, but rather that they do one activity a month or so, perhaps with a few other reinforcing mini lessons in between.
Included are explorations of a weather map, a population dot map, map vs. globe, etc. Nice design & illustrations. Also includes glossary, further reading, and index.
Better activities for some concepts exist. I recommend making iced tea (simply put 3-4 bags per quart in a plastic pitcher, fill about 2/3 w/ water, set it in the sun (on top of a car works great) for a few hours, bring inside to discard tea bags, fill the rest of the way with water, refrigerate) for the concept of Solar Energy. Greenhouse Effect is even easier... just compare the inside of the car (or the outer lobby of some banks, schools, etc) to the outside temperature.
Still, I highly recommend this to parents and other educators.
October 19, 2022
Decent beginners book for 5-7 th grade.
February 12, 2012
I found this book useful for my fifth grade Social Studies class since it enhanced what we were learning. Some of the activities also fit under Science. Students learn basic facts about maps, land, water, weather, and climate through hands on activities. Each activity includes background information along with explicit instructions and diagrams. Students learn how to make their own compass rose, earthquake in a box, rain gauge, tornado in a jar, a world clock that helps them figure out time in other parts of the world, etc… All it takes are simple materials to create these and many more fun projects. I recommend this for teachers and students alike.
January 26, 2013
What a happy accident that I stumpled upon this gem at the library. It is a must for homeschoolers from about 3rd grade up. It is full of fun little activities to learn about world geography. Lots of stuff to print, cut and assemble. Not full of ridiculously messy and/or complicated nonsense that doesn't really teach anything anyway. If we're going to make a horrid mess, it might as well be worth it. This wonderful book is full of fun!
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