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#45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography

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Time: About 30 minutes Steps: Open MS Word. Add a title–Where We Are (or your choice)–centered, bold and font 14. Use this to teach students about the tool bar’s alignment tools, bold, fonts and font size Insert a graphic organizer ( insert-diagram or one you have pushed out to students).

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13 Websites to Learn Everything About Landforms

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If your third grader has to write a report about landforms, try these websites: Continents explained (with humor) Explore the Colorado Geography Games Geography Quiz Game Geologic movies–great and fun Landforms—matching games, etc. Mapping Game Rainforest life—people, etc.

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10 Websites + 4 Apps that Make Geography Fun

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One of the hardest challenges for teachers is how to engage students in core subjects such as geography. If you aren’t a geography buff, you’re probably nodding. But watch how quickly the fourteen resources below morph geography from dusty to dynamic: 2-minute Geology. Geography Games. Geography Duel.

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Digipuzzle Offers Tons of Free Online Educational Games for Kids

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These games target various skill areas from math and geography to science and human body. Digipuzzle is a website that offers a wide variety of free online educational games for kids. I spent some.read more.

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19 Great Websites to Inspire 5th Graders

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Earth science animations. Geography for Kids. Geography Games. Geography Games II. Geography—geonet game. Geography quiz—Seterra. Wolfram Alpha widgets. Dig hole through the earth with Google Earth. Whyville–Social Media Sim. Maps—Make them. States games.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. AGRONOMIST – an expert in the science of soil management and crop production. We come from a variety of backgrounds including microbiology, human geography and theology,” says Dr Andy Jones, the theologian in the group. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.