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He received his B.A. in Social Studies at Montclair State College, an M.A. in History at Boston University, and M.A. in Educational Administration from Montclair State, and his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles. He also studied the Psychology of Reading at Temple University in Philadelphia, which led to his New Jersey Certification as a Reading Specialist. |
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Each activity centers around a basic geography concept such as map reading, weather, or longitude and latitude. What's more, the topics covered in the kit generally follow standard curriculum guidelines, textbook offerings, and test of basic skills used in grades 4-8.
For easy use, each activity is arranged on two facing pages. The teacher's page features an explanation of the particular geographic concept to be explored, a description of the skills to be developed, suggestions for teaching the activity, and the answer key for the exercise. The student's page is a reproducible activity sheet that requires a written response to material in graphic or narrative form.
The kit is divided into 11 sections that contain a wealth of ready-to-use teaching materials on a wide variety of topics. For example, your students will learn how to
In addition you'll find scores of related enrichment activities at the back of the book to give your students or groups, the Activities/Skills Index lists the appropriate grade level and skill needed for each activity.
Each lesson provides an instructor's page with interesting background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more student skillsheets. The skill sheets are designed to help students develop a place name repertory and associate meaning with the places recalled. They also require students to apply a wide range of reading comprehension and study skills.
For easy use, both instructor and student pages are printed in a big 8 1/4" x 11" format that can be photocopied as many times as needed, and all materials are organized into 12 convenient sections followed by a complete answer key:
The map reading skills covered in Section 1 are applied throughout the remaining sections of this resource. And the Answer Key provides answers for all the student skillsheets in Sections 1 through 11, and may be copied and placed at a central location for student self-checking if you wish.
Section 11 offers a variety of exciting games, puzzles, and activities that make learning geography facts fun. For example, you'll find a "Giant U.S. and Canada Crossword Puzzle"...the "United States Travel Game"..."Geo Bingo"...and "Giant Latin America Word Search."
As a further help, Section 12 contains labeled and unlabeled outline maps of the USA, North America, Middle America, and South America. These are ready to be copied and handed out to your students for practice, quizzes or tests.
In short, Ready-to-Use Geography Activities for the American Continents provides a complete activities program, for building student's understanding of the various people and places in our hemisphere so that they, as future voters, will have the knowledge they need to make wise decisions affecting their own lives and the lives of others.
For easy use, the lessons and accompanying skillsheets are organized chronologically into 25 sections from Pre-Columbus North America to the Space Age and printed in a big 8 1/2" x 11" format for easy photocopying of the student materials.
Each section is preceded by an instructor's page presenting background information, discussion questions, and graphics to enhance learning followed by a series of illustrated student activity sheets. Here are just 12 of the 25 sections.
In addition, sprinkled throughout you'll find more than 35 biographical sketches of noted Americans from Ben Franklin, Sequoia, and Narcissa Whitman to Matthew Henson, Jim Thorpe, and Christa McAuliffe. These mini-biographies, and all the other activities in this resource, will help you inject new variety and vitality across your entire history curriculum!
