This 36-week, digital PDF download trail guide includes: 5-minute daily drills, mapping, building a geography notebook, and a wide variety of additional projects with research and discovery. The literature unit in this book focuses on the Lewis and Clark expedition, using the book The Captain's Dog, by Roland Smith. Heavily used resources include the Uncle Josh's Outline Map Book, State Notebook, and the Desk Atlas of the United States. There are three levels of difficulty to bring all your students into one geography study together. PDF downloads are available on any device that has Acrobat Reader capabilities. ~Rebecca
Trail Guide to U.S. Geography - Digital Download
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Grade 3-12
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Publisher's Description of Trail Guide to U.S. Geography - Digital Download
Trail Guide to U.S. Geography is a family-friendly, multi-level geography curriculum guide for students in grades 3 through 12. With its trail markers (animal track icons) guiding your student along three different learning paths, this book can be used for more than one academic school year and works well if you have a number of students of varying abilities learning together.
There is not one exact way to use this unique course. It was designed with flexibility in mind to better meet various objectives when teaching geography. Trail Guide to U.S. Geography provides activities and assignments for a 36-week school year on U.S. Geography.
Category Description for Trail Guide to U.S. Geography
Following the same format as Trail Guide to World Geography, this guide offers a variety of options to add a little U.S. geography to your curriculum. The thirty-six weekly lessons in this book cover the fifty states, organized by region. Students study the states at a rate of about two per week. This easy-to-teach book covers essential geographical facts and features of each state. There are three types of assignments: Geography Trails, Points of Interest Mapping and Points of Interest Trail Blazing. Each week contains four days of the Trails, which are questions that the student uses the Desk Atlas of the U.S. to answer. These usually take about 5 minutes to answer. Points of Interest Mapping activities ask the student to draw and label points of interest on an outline map. Trail Blazing assignments require students to research and write about various state-related topics in their state notebook. The book wraps up with a literature unit on the Lewis and Clark expedition, using the book The Captain’s Dog. You will need either Uncle Josh’s Outline Maps or the Notebook; both will include the outline maps needed. Digital download versions are also available.
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| Product Format: | Other |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 3-12 |
| Brand: | Geography Matters |
| EAN/UPC: | GM-420e |
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