Beginning Geography

Great tool for introducing children to map reading, directions and geographic locations.

This has been a really good book and my first grader looks forward to doing her page's for the day. The entire book is black and white so if you want colorful workpages this isn't for you.

My daughter (7) and I are so excited to have this book! I am adding it to our existing curriculum. It covers a range of topics and doesn't seem to be missing anything. I am happy with this purchase.

Amazing and comprehensive introduction to geography, my son especially loves the pull out maps.

Very well organized worksheets that my child enjoyed. Retained map skills even at a young age. Fun to teach!

I used this for the first year of homeschooling my two oldest children (Kindergarten and 2nd grade). We all loved it! It was easy to understand and follow for both of them. It slowly progresses from basic map skills (what is a map, map key, compass rose, etc) to land forms, bodies of water, seas, continents, etc. There are quite a number of cut and paste activities, so the pages should be reproduced, otherwise you might cut important information on the back of some pages.

Love how simple and clear this book is. I'm using it for 1st grade and it's perfect! Very simple quick lessons that just cover the basics.

I use this as an extra resource with my first grader's geography curriculum. Several reproducible pages to choose from to fit with the skill we are working on. I highly recommend!

This book is a great introduction to geography. I am using it for my Kindergartner. The pages are fun and explained well. The only reason I did not give it five stars is because the pages they are to cut out ruins the reverse page it's to be glued on. Some writing and reading are more geared towards older grades, but I still feel it's a good beginning for us.

I purchased Beginning Geography to use with my first grade son which turned out to be a great fit for his interest and abilities It would also work well with a second grader but is probably a stretch for Kindergarten (they advertise it for K-2) Since our formal history studies don't begin until 2nd first grade was a good time to get familiar with the world in general (globe maps continents and oceans nations and their flags landforms climate etc) I had intended to use Galloping the Globe by Loree Pettit as the spine of my curriculum but found that Beginning Geography ended up being my primary resource instead Galloping the Globe is meant to be a unit study that involves literature history and science as well as geography which was more than we could use for our simple purpose especially in first grade Also it didn't specifically cover things like landforms and climate Beginning Geography is very useful as the spine of a first grade geography course because it is thorough in teaching everything you would cover with this age group (except countries and flags) and it builds sequentially Using it as a syllabus you can be sure that you are covering the important aspects of geography Its weakness is that its not a curriculum (just worksheets) but that wasn't a problem because the content is pretty self-teaching and at this level the parent can easily learn at the same time as the child Having a beginner's atlas available and supplementing with a few hands on activities would add depth to the program but isn't strictly needed I would also recommend finishing Beginning Geography a few months early and then doing cursory studies of individual countries along with coloring pages of their flags (available in Galloping the Globe or other resources) Other related books I would recommend for this age are Maps and Globes by Jack Knowlton and Geography from A to Z also by Knowlton