Geography Fun: Cool Activities & Projects for Young Explorers - Softcover

Rhatigan, Joe; Smith, Heather

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579904343 ISBN 13: 9781579904340

Publisher: Union Square & Co., 2003

Synopsis

Provides craft ideas, instructions, and supplies needed to create items related to maps, family trees, and climate.

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From the Back Cover

Where can you celebrate your birthday twice in two days?
How many countries has your stuff been to?
Where is the center of the world?
What does a cow in China sound like?
Want the answers? Check inside and soon you'll be doing and creating cool things that will help you experience geography like never before! Turn your home into a gigantic sundial. Map your friend's face. Grab a couple of pizza boxes and bake some cookies in your backyard. Predict the weather. Turn tomorrow's trash into treasure. Sound like fun? It is! Geography isn't just for textbooks anymore!

From Booklist

Gr. 4-6. Teachers and parents will find this cornucopia of instructive projects will help spark interest in geography topics. The authors not only define geography as the study of where things are globally, but also as the purview of more complicated issues such as cultural development. The strongest projects lead off, with readers learning how to make an astrolabe, a cross staff, and a compass. Intertwined are explanations of latitude, longitude, and bits of relevant history regarding explorers and the use of these instruments. Cartography comes next, with special care devoted to explaining how world maps compromise actual distances and shapes in their efforts to depict a view of landforms. A chapter on weather and its influence on land and people includes instructions for making a barometer, an anemometer, and a wind vane. The book underscores not only the complexities of where we are, but also how we got here. The writing is friendly and upbeat, and the page design kinetic--pictures of kids and projects plus sidebar stories and boxed information keep visual interest high. Denise Wilms
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Edition details

• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579904343
• ISBN 13: 9781579904340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144