Mapping Our World 6 Pack

This informative book teaches readers about the seven continents and how to recognize them on maps. Through supportive text, vibrant images, and a helpful glossary, index, and table of contents, readers will learn about map basics like the compass rose, a scale, and a legend. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Introducing young people to a variety of world map projections, this book aims to encourage them to question the purpose and use of maps.

This informative book teaches readers about the seven continents and how to recognize them on maps. Through supportive text, vibrant images, and a helpful glossary, index, and table of contents, readers will learn about map basics like the compass rose, a scale, and a legend.

Mapping Our World is a geography course that covers map skills, latitude and longitude, map scales and keys, map projections, transportation, topographic maps, time zones, political and physical maps, and navigation as well as a tour to regions around the world. A mentor uses Mapping Our World to custom tailor learning to the students. The mentor chooses from among the library book recommendations, video recommendations, and activity ideas presented in the book. Mentors and students learn together as they read, watch, craft, cook, play, and create. To complete the activities you will need craft supplies and some household items. This course was designed for multiple ages or abilities of students to learn together in a homeschool or classroom. Mapping Our World includes nine units, one for each month of your school year. They are: Western Europe, Near East, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, Eastern Europe, Northern South America, Mainland North America, West Africa, and Central Asia. Each unit intentionally contains more information and activities than you will be able to complete. The mentor chooses among the options to design a course just for his or her students. Then, in four years, once the entire Layers of Learning cycle has been completed, you all return to the book and do new activities at a higher level of learning. This course was designed for multiple ages or abilities of students to learn together in a homeschool or classroom and contains activities that will appeal to little ones and to high schoolers, often at the same time. A Printable Pack of worksheets, paper crafts, foldables, maps, and activities is included with this book. To retrieve the Printable Pack for free visit Layers-of-Learning.com and enter the coupon code found inside this book.

Briefly describes the process of making maps.

Uses various kinds of maps along with text to describe many aspects of the earth including its history and changing conditions.