This collection of teacher-tested, standards-based activities stimulates student interest in geography and connects your classroom with the world! Students use a balloon to create a globe, shape dough into a landform relief plaque, turn a shoe box into a cultural museum, and enjoy many other map activities that build geography skills. Includes step-by-step directions and extensions for each activity, mapmaking reproducibles, Internet links, and a "Landform Terms" mini-reference book. For use with Grades 3-6.
Rose Forina is a fourth grade social studies teacher from Winthrop, MA. Rose aims to develop projects for her students that "foster a love of geography and a lifelong interest in discovering the world and learning about its people." This is her first book for Scholastic.