{"id":452156,"date":"2010-03-20T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2478"},"modified":"2010-03-20T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T14:58:41","slug":"teaching-geography-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-geography-from-a-z-a-picture-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452156","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Geography with Children\u2019s Literature: Geography from A-Z: A Picture Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introduction and Summary <\/strong><\/p>\n

Geography from A-Z: A Picture Glossary<\/a><\/em>, by Jack Knowlton, is a great resource for elementary students that are trying to learn the difference between a plateau and a plain or a knoll and an atoll.\u00a0 This wonderfully illustrated book defines sixty-three key geographic terms and includes a picture example to go along with each child-friendly definition.\u00a0 It introduces recognizable terms such as marsh, rain forest and coastline and then explains terms hardly known by adults such as oxbow lake, escarpment and promontory.\u00a0 This book is perfect to help children understand geography vocabulary terms in your classroom!<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections <\/strong><\/p>\n

This book would be a great resource for geography lessons where children must identify key geographic terms (Virginia SOL US 1.2 D).\u00a0 A fun activity would be to give each student several geographic terms and then have them illustrate the terms and present them to the class. \u00a0 They could also be made into foldables to place in an interactive notebook.\u00a0 Younger grades could learn the more basic terminology and older grades could have fun learning new terms such as isthmus, strait and butte.<\/p>\n

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