cdrumm4448 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Anyone care to reveal their geography favorites for 3rd-ish grade? We are currently doing Evan Moore's Daily Geography 3 (after completing 2 last year) and it just seems like more of what we learned last year. We're flying through it and will be done shortly. So, I'm looking for something more. Anything awesome, different, compelling? What do you love for elementary Geography? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoVanGogh Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 We love Modern Curriculum Press "Maps, Charts and Graphs" series. Something we did yesterday... I have two sets of "flashcards" of various sites around the world - Suez Canal, pyramids, Victoria Falls, Mount Rushmore, etc. I bought one set at GeoMatters - beautiful, high quality cards. The other set is from Target $ area several years ago - nice, but certainly lower quality. We read the book "Blast Off To Earth" by Loreen Leedy. Then made a map from memory of the continents and oceans, based off the idea in "The Core" by Bortins. After we had those drawn and labeled, we went through the "Blast off" book and drew/labeled different things - such as #1 largest continent through smallest continent, Nile River is longest river, where the Sahara desert is, etc. Then we went through our flashcards and added some of those items to our map. (Just the major ones that we have studied so far.) I want my son to have a good "mental map" of the world, where he can automatically picture where the Panama canal is vs. the Suez canal, etc. It was a fun activity, though we ended up spending our entire school time on it! It was actually a good way to "test" DS on his geography knowledge w/o it seeming like a test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyB Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I have not used it yet, but I like the looks of Trail Guide to World Geography from Geography Matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Alfred Academy Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 We love Modern Curriculum Press "Maps, Charts and Graphs" series. We really like these too! A fun book we have been working through to get a good grasp of where the states are is The Little Man in the Map. We are reading it slowly and labeling a map as we go. The clues they give are easy for the boys to remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satori Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 We're only doing grade 1-2 geography and using various workbooks, but just wanted to add this book. I looked through it just last night and look forward to using later this year or next! Lots of fun, hands-on projects. The Geography Book: Activities for Exploring, Mapping, and Enjoying Your World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaqar Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Our current favorite is A Child's Geography by Ann Voskamp. We also love the "living" geography books by Holling C. Holling (i.e. Paddle to the Sea, Seabird, Minn of the Mississippi, Tree in the Trail, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaqar Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Beautiful Feet has a full curriculum scheduled around the Holling C. Holling books that I mentioned above. The maps would be especially helpful: http://www.bfbooks.com/s.nl;jsessionid=KMwmMhbZv1n0vpGyXRLh23LKsJ4CQVLMG78GwXXrCPyGsQqhWZb3ThSfTcv5gKTx4qn693jLZsMDh51hh8D2PqqXjK2zJh9hTZRpJyv5p0J5hvhcVTp2Yb9hhym84Kpk!-9411049?sc=17&category=14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanaTron Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Trail Guide you can use with both your children. And it is very flexible, so you can make it into what you would like it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calandalsmom Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I am very happy with the Map Trek I just purchased to use with our middle ages unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathmom Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 We have been very happy with Trail Guide to World Geography. As someone has already said, you can make of it what you like and it scaffolded so that you can use it over different grade levels. Other resources we use very often include: Sheppard Software's free geography games online Children's Amazing Places (worth tracking down used) National Geographic's travel website Those are the best general resources that we have found. There are some country/area specific things that have been great, and I could spend all day talking about those! We are in Northern Europe right now and just read two versions of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. One was traditional and the other was set in Louisiana. Right now the big girls are working on a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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