Trick Geography

Trick Geography
Author: Patty Blackmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692670330

"I can't believe how much I just learned!" That was one mom's response after observing a single class session of Trick Geography. Trick Geography: USA Student Book (Teacher Guide sold separately) is a simple, yet powerful geography curriculum which routinely moves students from geographic illiteracy to command of US states, capitals, and major bodies of water, mountains, deserts, and plains in just a few weeks. And all with ease and high retention! Delightful graphics, phonetic connectors, dot-to-dots, and fill-in-the-blanks facilitate multiple learning styles and make the process more like a game than a curriculum. It is easy enough for elementary students yet sophisticated enough for the high schooler. Teachers appreciate the simple instructions which require virtually no prep time or learning curve and which give students the option of going through the program on their own. Evaluation is a cinch with matching tests which are included. Recommended for ages 8 to adult. 56 pages. (The Trick Geography: World edition is also available.)

The Geography of Bliss

The Geography of Bliss
Author: Eric Weiner
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1448168481

What makes a nation happy? Is one country's sense of happiness the same as another's? In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about who's happy and who isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world's least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel and evaluate each country's different sense of happiness and discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. ·He discovers the relationship between money and happiness in tiny and extremely wealthy Qatar (and it's not a good one) ·He goes to Thailand, and finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. ·He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! ·He asks himself why the British don't do happiness? In Weiner's quest to find the world's happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok and drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, The Geography of Bliss accomplishes a feat few travel books dare and even fewer achieve: to make you happier.

The Scrambled States of America

The Scrambled States of America
Author: Laurie Keller
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2002-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805068317

The states become bored with their positions on the map and decide to change places for a while. Includes facts about the states.

Map My Country

Map My Country
Author: Harriet Brundle
Publisher: Mapping My World
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Cartography
ISBN: 9781789980516

Feeling lost when it comes to maps? With this fun and informative series, you'll soon know exactly where you are when it comes to maps and mapping! What is a map? What are maps used for? How do you read a map? Find your way to the answers and take a journey into mapping as you learn how to make your own maps of everything from your school, your town, your country, even the whole world!

Tropic of Chaos

Tropic of Chaos
Author: Christian Parenti
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1568586620

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

Using Digital Maps

Using Digital Maps
Author: Adrienne Matteson
Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781624311291

With the latest advances in GPS technology and online map software, exploring the world is easier than it's ever been. Readers will find out what digital maps are and learn how to use them in a variety of situations.

Drawing the Line

Drawing the Line
Author: Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher: Mark Monmonier
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1995
Genre: Cartography
ISBN: 9780805025811

Argues that maps can be manipulated to distort the truth, and shows how they have been used for propaganda in international affairs, political districting, and finding toxic dump sites

Calendar

Calendar
Author: University of Manitoba
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1895
Genre:
ISBN:

Terrestrial Lessons

Terrestrial Lessons
Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 022647657X

Prologue: Global itineraries, Earth inscriptions -- In pursuit of a global thing -- "As you live in the world, you ought to know something of the world"--The global pandit -- Down to Earth? Of girls and globes -- "It's called a globe. It is the Earth. Our Earth!" -- Epilogue: The conquest of the world as globe