Mapping Our World 6 Pack For Georgia

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.

This informational 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.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, k, p, e, i, t.

Discusses the history and importance of maps and the science of cartography.

Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live in the world – or at least how we lived immediately before the emergence of Covid-19. The maps lie. All maps lie. But the origins of the deceptions are explained, the data sources are signposted and referenced, and the readers are shown how to create their own maps using freely available software. The reader is thus armed with the tools needed to explore local, national or world data – on topics ranging from science to society; environment to entertainment; wealth to wellbeing – a valuable skill in an age when certain politicians are happy to refer to “alternative facts” and media outlets deliver data visualizations that sometimes mislead as much as inform.