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In The Whole World in Your Hands<\/a>, by Melvin and Gilda Berger<\/a>, chidlren will be introduced to maps and their uses.\u00a0 They will look at their town, state, country, and world.\u00a0 This text defines the continents, the equator, the oceans, and the poles.\u00a0 This text also explains north, south, east, and west.\u00a0\u00a0 This resource\u00a0is interactive and gives children a map of a subdivision with street names and asks them to trace\u00a0certain\u00a0routes that the children in the story can take.\u00a0 The authors discuss that\u00a0on a state map\u00a0there can be symbols that informs what type of crops are grown there and what kind of animals live there.\u00a0 In addition, this text provides a map of the United States and asks children to locate certain states.\u00a0 The text describes why most people do not live the equator nor near the poles, but in between.\u00a0 At the end of this book is an index for quick reference.<\/p>\n Curriculum Connections:<\/p>\n \u00a0This text would be useful for kindergaten level geography.\u00a0 This resource describes locations using words like right and left to describe east and west (K.3).\u00a0 This text further provides examples of maps as flat representations and of the round globe, teaching that the world is round like the globe,\u00a0 It further uses child friendly stories to help students\u00a0track how they would get to certain real life places on a map (school).\u00a0 Finally it reviews the oceans and other features of\u00a0maps.\u00a0(K.4 a, b, c)<\/p>\n Additional Resources:<\/p>\n \u00a0This\u00a0link provides an interactive and hands on activity for students to assist in their city map reading skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n This link provides students the opportunity to become more familiar with their own geography in an activity called Where I Live<\/a>.\u00a0 In this activity kids write information about themselves, and parents could assist them if they have difficulty with writing.<\/p>\n