How Do You Teach Geography To Children?
Having a kid learn the names of nearby streets might be difficult enough, never mind trying to teach them neighboring countries. Rather than introduce a technical and yawn-filled lesson, you can teach geography to children in a fun and memorable way. A few simple tips and tricks will have kids remembering street names, neighboring countries and places found around the world. Use colorful visuals. Any geography lesson, for kids and adults alike, needs to come with a map. Don’t just tack up those drab maps of the world where everything is a mundane brown. Fashion your own colors on top of it, making Poland and enticing green, France a neon pink and the United States polka dot. Draw little pictures of things you find in each locale, such as rattlesnakes in Tucson. Make it fun. In addition to amusing maps, make the memorization of countries and their locations equally as enticing. Rather than explain how Italy is this degree latitude and that degree latitude, tell the kids that Italy is th
