Get Ready! for Social Studies : Geography

Everything parents need to help their kids succeed in social studies The only comprehensive social studies skill-building series available, the Get Ready! For Social Studies series equips proactive parents with the tools they need to help their children develop the core skills required to perform at grade level in social studies-related subjects. Geography focuses on major geographic concepts: what geography is, maps and globes, landforms, natural regions (biomes), human movement, human/environmental interaction, and economics.

Nancy White is President of Nancy White Communications, Inc., an independent developer and author of school projects. She is a member of the American Book Producers Association, the Author's Guild, and the National Council of Teachers of English.

Francine Weinberg has been an editor in educational publishing since 1967. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and is the founder of Educational Lions, L.I.C.

Introduction

1

(1)

Geography Matters

2

(18)

Word Power

4

(1)

What Your Child Needs to Know

5

(8)

Implications

13

(2)

Fact Checker

15

(1)

The Big Questions

15

(1)

Skills Practice

16

(2)

Top of the Class

18

(2)

Understanding Maps and Globes

20

(18)

Word Power

22

(1)

What Your Child Needs to Know

23

(9)

Implications

32

(2)

Fact Checker

34

(1)

The Big Questions

35

(1)

Skills Practice

35

(2)

Top of the Class

37

(1)

Planet Earth: Its Land, Water, and Air

38

(18)

Word Power

40

(1)

What Your Child Needs to Know

41

(10)

Implications

51

(1)

Fact Checker

52

(1)

The Big Questions

53

(1)

Skills Practice

53

(1)

Top of the Class

54

(2)

Natural Regions of Earth: Biomes

56

(14)

Word Power

58

(1)

What Your Child Needs to Know

59

(4)

Implications

63

(1)

Fact Checker

64

(1)

The Big Questions

65

(1)

Skills Practice

66

(2)

Top of the Class

68

(2)

People and Earth

70

(16)

Word Power

72

(1)

What Your Child Needs to Know

73

(8)

Implications

81

(1)

Fact Checker

82

(1)

The Big Questions

83

(1)

Skills Practice

83

(1)

Top of the Class

84

(2)

Geography of the United States by Regions

86

(14)

Word Power

88

(1)

What Your Child Needs to Know

89

(7)

Implications

96

(1)

Fact Checker

97

(1)

The Big Questions

98

(1)

Skills Practice

98

(1)

Top of the Class

99

(1)

Geography of the World by Continent

100

(17)

What Your Child Needs to Know

102

(11)

Implications

113

(1)

Fact Checker

113

(1)

The Big Questions

114

(1)

Skills Practice

114

(1)

Top of the Class

115

(2)

Appendix A. States of the Union

117

(4)

Appendix B. Countries of the World

121

(10)

Appendix C. Atlas

131

(17)

Answers to Fact Checkers

148

(1)

Index

149

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Get Ready! for Social Studies : Geography

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