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3-5 Core Curriculum – Geography: World Geography
Take your children on a fascinating virtual tour of our incredible plaent! In this fun and interactive unit study, designed to meet and exceed state and national standards, your children will explore world geography with a special emphasis on geo-literacy skills. With over 60 activities and 20 hands-on projects, your children will be fascinated from beginning to end. Each chapter includes a variety of activities, including interactive websites, hands-on projects, map work, readings, worksheets, charts, games, and much more to make learning geography fun and relevant!
This unit study is part of our geography core curriculum series for grades 3-5. The time needed to complete this unit study will vary for each child, but it is intended as a year long study with an average of 3-4 hours per week.
Take a peek inside:
The importance of geo-literacy
How to read different types of maps
National boundaries and capitals
Major rivers of the world
Major lakes of the world
Major deserts of the world
Continental landscapes
The human impact on river ecosystems
Human migration and geography
Using an atlas
Measuring straight-line distances with bar scales
Historical explorations of Antarctica
Topographic maps
Political borders
Longitude, latitude and coordinates
Geographic information systems
Time zones
The Gulf Stream
and much more!
All activities in this unit study are presented in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. But this unit study is not just a collection of web sites to read! It is much more than that! The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, and more. At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That’s why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!
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At Intellego Unit Studies, our mission is to provide engaging curriculum that meets the need of the 21st century student. Using the best resources available on the Internet, Intellego Unit Studies unites technology, learning style theory, and multisensory activities to help children reach their true academic potential.
Our Focus
At Intellego Unit Studies, we provide comprehensive and complete K-8 curriculum in social studies and science. In addition, we provide multidisciplinary unit studies for electives and enrichment in the areas of science, history, art, music, civics, cultures, and popular interest.
Our Inspiration
At Intellego Unit Studies, we are inspired by the inquisitive nature of children and the nurturing adults who guide their learning.
Our Challenge
Before Intellego Unit Studies was created, we listened as children and parents complained that their curriculum was boring, inadequate, limiting, out-dated, or just plain ineffective.
You asked for:
Quality curriculum that replaces dumbing down with high expectations for students.
Engaging curriculum that supports active learning.
Creative activities that support parental involvement in their children’s education.
Comprehensive curriculum that teaches from multiple viewpoints.
Multisensory curriculum that contains more than just reading and writing activities.
Secular curriculum that respects the religious and spiritual beliefs of all people.
Multicultural curriculum that recognizes the past, present and future of racial and cultural minorities.
Reliable web-linked curriculum that brings your family the best resources on the Internet.
Easy to use curriculum that does not require extensive prep time.
Research-based curriculum that supports the learning needs of your children.
We have listened, and we hope you will agree that we have met the challenge you have placed before us.
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