Skill Sharpeners: Geography, Grade 6 - Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

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Auteur(s) : Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Editeur : Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 144.0

ISBN : 9781629384733

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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:

• Storms on Earth
• Special places on Earth
• Iceland
• Unique trees
• Death Valley and deserts
• Landform maps
• Colliding plates
• Altitudes
• Immigration
• Angel Island
• UNESCO
• Dealing with water
• Scuba diving
• Sea pirates
• Sea travel

Includes answer key.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The Skill Sharpeners: GeographyTeaching 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.