Games
- As the Globe Turns - Can students use globes effectively? Do they have either the time or motivation to use class globes and maps? Try this game to teach the use of globes.
Lessons
- Help Your Child Learn Geography - Ideas for activities that will use your children's play to help them learn more geography.
Projects
- Map Making - The students will become aware of the placement of continents and oceans by drawing them on a handmade globe.
- Location Is Everything! - Children use all of their senses to learn about the world. Objects that they can touch, see, smell, taste, and hear help them understand the link between a model (such as a map) and the real thing.
- Get the Map Habit - Put your child's natural curiosity to work. Even small children can learn to read simple maps of their school, neighborhood, and community.
Resources
- Hands-on Geography: Globes - These are my top picks for world globes to help children understand geography and get a grasp on where things are in the world.
- Hands-on Geography Activity Books - These are my top picks for hands-on project and activity books to enrich your homeschool study of geography.
