Teaching geography elementary

Engage your students in learning about key geography skills and concepts with fun and engaging geography resources for the upper elementary classroom.

In third grade our first unit for social studies is a fun one.....geography. The kids get very excited and love to start exploring maps and globes. Take a peek at a few of my favorite classroom activities for geography. I start the year off by introducing interactive notebooks. I explain to my students that these are notebooks that will keep track of our ideas, discoveries and information to help us grow. These are unique in the fact that they are never truly complete, the students learn…

9 engaging activities to teach basic geography for kids. Download a free world map. #continents #worldmap #geography #kidsactivities

how to teach kids where in the world they live by using simple circles to show the planet, continent, country, state, city, street, home! free printable.

One of the awesome things about homeschooling is that we can add in subjects that tend to be neglected in other educational environments. A quality homeschool geography curriculum is one of those subjects that I

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In this guide, explore everything you need to know to teach about world geography. Explore videos, games and resources for teaching about world geography. Download a free world geography lesson plan too!. #worldgeography #geography #geographylesson #geographyactivities #geographycurriculum

Geography games and activities are perfect for teaching your students about their place in the globe. Find 15 here.

Are you a history teacher looking for a new way to teach geography? In this blog post, we cover a new method for teaching geography: Geo-Power.

Have you ever taken one of those "Can you name the 50 states" types of tests? Did you do well? I've always enjoyed geography, and for the most part, I'm pretty good at naming the states and capitals, and being able to locate the states. I even know that Alaska is in fact up

Students can travel across the globe without leaving the classroom. Check out these fun geography lessons for any grade and curriculum.

When subject integration happens, a lot of possibilities open up for being able to share a lot of nonfiction text and geography map skills with children! #geographyactivities #geographyprintables

Children can fill in their pretend passport template as they learn. This free printable passport activity makes a fun world geography craft.

This last week we began our geography unit in second grade. We began by learning the mapping essential vocabulary of map, globe, key, scale, grid, birds eye view. We practiced making our own maps and creating symbols for our map keys. The students love making their own maps of our neighborhood where the school is...

This simple project with help teach kids geography and increase their global awareness as they begin to grasp their city, state, country, and continent.

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This collection of 9 free, online geography games will put your knowledge of Planet Earth to the test! Suitable for all ages. Great for school and home.