Looking for a great way to teach the U.S. states? The Little Man in the Map is a great book that has fun clues to help kids (or adults for that matter) remember all 50.
Here's an example:
Try looking for it at your local library or bookstore.
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by thedevereaux
on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at 11:32AM
Kidsgeo.com is an online geography and geology textbook written for kids with topics focusing on the Earth's surface, the atmosphere, the oceans, as well as the distribution of plants, animals, and people. What a great resource!
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by thedevereaux
on Thursday December 22, 2011 at 04:58PM
Kids often have a hard time remembering which is the city, state, country, etc. Here's a fun visual to help kids remember. Create round shapes that progressively get larger, starting with school, then street, city, state, country, continent, and planet. Kids can draw a picture, or color a photocopy to place on the circle and label each. For more details, visit: www.finallyinfirst.blogspot.com.
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by thedevereaux
on Tuesday December 6, 2011 at 01:21PM
Here's a fun way to teach the difference between a strait and an isthmus- graham crackers representing land and blue frosting representing water. What kid wouldn't love that?
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by thedevereaux
on Monday October 3, 2011 at 09:20PM
What better way to learn about the world than to communicate with people living there? Check out www.postcrossing.com and sign up to receive postcards from all over the world.
All you do is sign up on this free website and you will be given an address in another country to send a postcard. You add your special code on it and when they get it, they will enter your code into the system and someone else sends you a postcard.
A fun way to make this more exciting is to get a wall map and let your kids use pins to mark the spot each postcard comes from. Then, start a memory box to keep all the postcards in.
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by thedevereaux
on Tuesday September 20, 2011 at 09:45AM
