Skill Sharpeners: Geography, Grade 3 Workbook

Skill Sharpeners: Geography engages your child in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts. 

Winner of the Mom’s Choice Gold Seal Award for the best family—friendly products, these colorful activity books excite children to learn about the world around them and practice cross—curricular skills that integrate current geography standards.

Each geography topic includes nonfiction reading selections, comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, writing prompts, and authentic activities that bring the concepts to life. These activities invite your child to be creative while using higher—order thinking skills.
 
The reading selections and activities take students beyond basic geographic understandings and into unique ecosystems, biomes, places and regions, histories, cultures, and social movements within our world. Students make personal connections to their learning by completing expository and creative writing activities as well as hands—on geography projects.
 
 
Engaging concepts covered include:

• Tornadoes
• Earthquakes
• Famous mountains
• Rivers
• Volcanoes
• Deserts
• Cultures
• World travel
• Native American history
• Unique water formations
• Early exploration

Includes answer key.

Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! Skill Sharpeners: Geography Teaching Guides include:

• How to Use directions for teaching geography
• Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities
• Teaching suggestions for incorporating geography discussion questions
• Extension activities such as a geography journal, graphic organizers, and field trip suggestions