Skills Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts. The cross-curricular activities integrate the most 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:
* Earth from space
* Early explorers
* National parks
* Antarctica
* Amazon
* Glaciers
* Rainforests
* Ancient Greece
* Roman waterways
* Time zones
* Large water systems
* Protecting the environment
* Future of Earth’s water

Includes answer key.


本書讓您的孩子透過學習重要的地圖技能和地理主題，來參與探索這個世界。跨學科活動結合了時下最新的地理學標準。

每則地理主題包含非小說類閱讀精選、閱讀理解、字彙練習、寫寫看、以及結合生活觀念的擬真活動。這些活動鼓勵您的孩子在使用高階思考時發揮創意。

本書內含閱讀選擇題型與活動，帶領學生學習基本地理概念，並且認識世界各地獨特的生態系統、生物群落、位置與地區、歷史、文化和社會運動。

透過書中的說明文寫作與創意寫作活動，以及地理實作遊戲，學生能將自身經驗與書中所學相連結。

本書涵蓋下列主題：
* 從太空看地球
* 早期探險家
* 國家公園
* 南極洲
* 亞馬遜
* 冰川
* 雨林
* 古希臘
* 羅馬水道
* 時區
* 大型水系統
* 環境保護
* 地球水的未來

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