Description
Geography skills are often given too little attention in elementary level textbooks. Supplement your child’s textbooks with this excellent series.
Reading and Geography Skills Developed in Lands at Home
- Reading for meaning
- Skimming
- Getting and using main ideas
- Identifying and using reading aids (index, maps, symbols, globes, pictures, diagrams)
- Weighing evidence and using judgment
- Recognizing new words
- Interpreting pictures, charts, and maps
- Finding directions
- Applying knowledge about maps
- Extending knowledge beyond the Earth
- Seeing relationships between air and winds and life on the Earth
- Discovering relationships between clouds, rainfall, winds, and air
- Seeing relationships between geographic factors and ways of making a living
Geography Skills and Concepts Developed in Regions of the World
- Using maps to find important facts and information
- Finding direction and distance from maps
- Interpreting map language and symbols
- Reading pictures and understanding charts
- Seeing all parts of the Earth as a whole
- Understanding rocks and soils
- Being aware of the effects of the sun and moon upon the earth
- Knowing the nature of air and its relation to weather
- Understanding the importance of weather forecasting
- Applying principles of weather and climate to transportation
- Applying climatic and weather principles to housing
- Seeing how geographic factors affect the lives of people
- Knowing the effects of heat, moisture, drought, and elevation on specific peoples and their adaptation to these conditions
- Understanding conservation of our resources
Geography Skills and Concepts Developed in American Continents
- Learning about maps and globes
- How maps and globes show directions and distances
- Symbols and colors on maps
- Finding one’s location using maps
- Learning basic principles of interviewing
- Using graphs, tables, and charts
- Landforms
- Looking at our earth and its changes
- Our atmosphere, predicting weather
- The regional geography of the U.S., Canada, and Latin America
Geography Skills and Concepts Developed in Continents Overseas
- Distances and time shown on maps
- Photography
- Census data
- The sun and its family
- The earth and its motions
- Learning about the moon
- Our atmosphere
- Weather, air masses, source regions, and characteristics
- World climates
- The regional geography of Europe
- France: the crossroads nation of Europe
- Resources and people of Russia
- The setting of Southwest Asia
- Two countries of Southwest Asia
- The regional geography of Southern Asia
- The regional geography of Eastern Asia
- The regional geography of the Pacific Islands
- The continent of Africa
- Understanding the city
- Environmental problems
