Get Ready! for Social Studies : Geography

by Furstinger, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780071377614
• ISBN10: 0071377611
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-15
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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