Give your Kindergarten to 2nd grade students the geography skills practice they need to successfully tackle the geography curriculum now and in the future! Through engaging activities, content vocabulary development, and cumulative assessments, this resource has everything you need to build the foundations of geography literacy.
What's Inside:
Based on the National Geography Standards, the 93 reproducible practice pages cover beginning map skills, landforms and bodies of water, and continents and oceans. Each of the 3 sections includes:
- a teaching guide with the National Geography essential element and the standards covered in the section.
- a detailed table of contents with the targeted geography concept for each activity in the section.
- activity pages for individual, small group, or whole class instruction: Includes drawing and writing activities, cut-and-paste, test-prep, open-ended response activities, centers, games, minibooks, and more.
- section review pages that can be also be used as a formal assessment of students' skill aquisition.
Additionally, Beginning Geography includes:
- an enrichment section: Around the World with Animals engages students by learning where interesting animals can be found throughout the world as learn more about the continents and oceans.
- two full-color maps: Continents and Oceans, and Landforms and Bodies of Water.
- an answer key
Activities cover the following geography skills:
- What Is a Map?
- What Is a Globe?
- Positional Words, Cardinal Directions, and Compass Rose
- Map Symbols, Map Key, and Distance on a Map
- Borders on a Map, and Map Grids
- Hills, Mountains, and Volcanos
- Islands
- Deserts, Plains, Canyons, and Valleys
- Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
- The Seven Continents
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.
