{"product_id":"2940013834873","title":"HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED Book Seven: HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN GEOGRAPHY WITH ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN under 10 years of age. Help your child develop the ability to use maps and to develop mental maps of the world so that your child can do better in life!","description":"SNEAK PEAK:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHELPING YOUR CHILD LEARN GEOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Russell J. Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemember thumbing through an atlas or encyclopaedia as a child, \u003cbr\u003eimagining yourself as a world traveller on a safari in Africa, or \u003cbr\u003eboating up the Mississippi River, climbing the peaks of the \u003cbr\u003eHimalayas, visiting ancient cathedrals and castles of Europe, the \u003cbr\u003eGreat Wall of China? We do. The world seemed full of faraway, \u003cbr\u003eexotic, and wonderful places that we wanted to know more about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, we would like to believe that youngsters are growing up \u003cbr\u003esimilarly inquisitive about the world. Perhaps they are, but \u003cbr\u003erecent studies and reports indicate that, if such imaginings are \u003cbr\u003estirring in our youngsters, they're not being translated into \u003cbr\u003eknowledge. Not that there ever was a \"golden age\" when all our \u003cbr\u003eyoung and all our citizens were conversant about the peoples and \u003cbr\u003eplaces of the globe. Still, there is considerable evidence that \u003cbr\u003esuch knowledge among young people has dipped to an alarming low.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLast year, a nine-nation survey found that one in five young \u003cbr\u003eAmericans (18- to 24-year-olds) could not locate the United \u003cbr\u003eStates on an outline map of the world. The UK situation is a \u003cbr\u003elittle better, but there is still much room for improvement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLearning should not be restricted to the classroom. Parents are a \u003cbr\u003echild's first teachers and can do much to advance a youngster's \u003cbr\u003egeographic knowledge. This booklet suggests some ways to do so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is based on a fundamental assumption: that children generally \u003cbr\u003elearn what adults around them value. The significance attached to \u003cbr\u003egeography at home or at school can be estimated in a glance at \u003cbr\u003ethe walls and bookshelves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimply put, youngsters who grow up around maps and atlases are \u003cbr\u003emore likely to get the \"map habit\" than youngsters who do not. \u003cbr\u003eWhere there are maps, atlases, and globes, discussions of world \u003cbr\u003eevents (at whatever intellectual level) are more likely to \u003cbr\u003einclude at least a passing glance at their physical location. \u003cbr\u003eTurning to maps and atlases frequently leads youngsters to \u003cbr\u003efashion, over time, their own \"mental maps\" of the world -- maps \u003cbr\u003ethat serve not only to organise in their minds the peoples, \u003cbr\u003eplaces, and things they see and hear about in the news, but also \u003cbr\u003eto suggest why certain events unfold in particular places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelping every child develop his or her ability to use maps and to \u003cbr\u003edevelop mental maps of the world ought to become a priority in \u003cbr\u003eour homes and schools. For, as we all know, our lives are \u003cbr\u003ebecoming an ever tighter weave of interactions with people around \u003cbr\u003ethe world. If our businesses are to fare well in tomorrow's world \u003cbr\u003emarkets, if our national policies are to achieve our aims in the \u003cbr\u003efuture, and if our relationships with other peoples are to grow \u003cbr\u003eresilient and mutually enriching, our children must grow to know \u003cbr\u003ewhat in the world is where.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis booklet is designed to help parents stir children's \u003cbr\u003ecuriosity and steer that curiosity toward geographic questions \u003cbr\u003eand knowledge. It is organised around the five themes recently \u003cbr\u003eset forth by geographers and geography educators -- the physical \u003cbr\u003elocation of a place, the character of a place, relationships \u003cbr\u003ebetween places, movement of people and things, and phenomena that \u003cbr\u003ecause us to group places into particular regions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe encourage parents to get to the fun part -- that is, the \u003cbr\u003eactivities. The games, maps, and suggested activities that \u003cbr\u003efollow, while informal and easy to do, can help lay a solid \u003cbr\u003efoundation in experience for children's later, more academic \u003cbr\u003eforays into geography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildren are playing in the sand. They make roads for cars. One \u003cbr\u003ebuilds a castle where a doll can live. Another scoops out a hole, \u003cbr\u003euses the dirt to make a hill, and pours some water in the hole to \u003cbr\u003emake a lake. Sticks become bridges and trees. The children name \u003cbr\u003ethe streets, and may even use a watering can to make rain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough they don't know it, these children are learning the \u003cbr\u003eprinciples of geography. They are locating things, seeing how \u003cbr\u003epeople interact with he Earth, manipulating the environment, \u003cbr\u003elearning how weather changes the character of a place, and \u003cbr\u003elooking at how places relate to each other through the movement \u003cbr\u003eof things from one place to another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this book, we hope you, as parents, will get ideas for \u003cbr\u003eactivities that will use your children's play to informally help \u003cbr\u003ethem learn more geography -- the study of the Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of the suggestions in this book are geared to children under \u003cbr\u003e10 years of age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO BE CONTINUED... 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