Help fifth- and sixth-grade students understand the five themes of geography with thematic units tied to their daily lives. Colorful, U.S. hemispheric and world maps are combined with real-life stories to help teach students about location, weather, climate, continents, and more. This practice book relates map skills to people, places, and events—and reinforces map-reading, geography, research, social studies and vocabulary skills. 32 pages, paperback.
Using Maps in the Real World Series

Skills-building practice includes:

Location, distance, continents, regional characteristics

Historical maps, map projections, polar maps

Human/environment interaction