The World Around Us Curriculum Workbook | Learn & Grow Before & After Care Series
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Explore the geography, landforms, and ecosystems of our home planet with The World Around Us from the Learn & Grow Series by Everyday Play N Learn! This 76-page comprehensive curriculum workbook introduces young explorers to maps, community structures, physical geography, aquatic environments, and global cartography through hands-on activities.
Packed with step-by-step papier-mâché building projects, interactive water filter experiments, treasure map creation, directional games, and special needs adaptation guides for all learning styles!
🌟 4-Week Exploration Plan:
Week 1: Environment & Community: Explore classroom and home environments, build collaborative environmental murals, go on a school materials hunt (plastic, wood, metal, glass), construct 3D cardboard box community models, unscramble city locations, sort natural vs. man-made objects, and sculpt modeling clay environments.
Week 2: Geography & Landforms: Model Play-Doh landforms (mountains, hills, volcanoes, deserts, plains, islands), build papier-mâché mountain ranges, create Grand Canyon infographics, trigger chemical baking soda volcano eruptions, build sand-and-water islands and peninsulas, build blanket hills, and design comprehensive geography scenes.
Week 3: Bodies of Water: Differentiate rivers vs. lakes, create "Jellyfish in a Bottle" pressure density experiments, run paper boat river current races, unscramble aquatic animal names, build multi-layer sand and gravel water filters, and solve "Bodies of Water" path games.
Week 4: Mapping: Analyze map elements (Title, Legend, Scale, Latitude/Longitude, Compass Rose), draw school maps, fill in cardinal directions (N, S, E, W), play interactive "Human Map" games, compare globes vs. flat world maps, plot global string journey routes, give positional directions, and design treasure maps.
The World Around Us Curriculum Workbook | Learn & Grow Before & After Care Series
$24.99