Daily Geography Practice, Grade 3 Teacher Edition Paperback – Teacher's Edition, 1 June 2004

It's a wonderful resource. It does have a heavy focus on American geography. It is easy to use and has great teacher notes in the margins.

We use this, like many other readers, as our geography curriculum. We do a weeks worth of lessons once or twice a week and it doesn't take much time, but helps develop some good basic geography skills. The only thing I don't love is that the answer key is on the "teachers page" and that the teachers page is written to be read by the teacher, not just written directly to the student (as it's so simple! there's really no reason for this!). But it hasn't been a problem, really. The book is also reproducible which makes it economical if you are using it for more than one child.

I am using a lot of the Spectrum books for home-schooling and love them. They allow the kids to go at their own pace, but add depth you don't find in a lot of workbook-style books. Each section involves "thinking" rather than fill-in-the-blank-type answers. My daughter loves this book. It attacks the US by region after first teaching map skills (map key, compass rose, waterways, etc.) Each chapter is broken down into a few introductory paragraphs about the week's topic, a map illustration, and daily assignments that are not too difficult and allow jumping off points for discussion or, in our case, she loves to go it on her own.

This is an excellent book for classroom use! The maps are great and very appropriate for third graders. They are clear and easy to read. My favorite thing is that there are overhead maps already included with the book. This saves me the time of making them to use with the lessons. Each map will be used for a week of geography learning. There are 2 questions per day for each map and a challenge question at the end of the week that requires students to extend their learning with the map of the week. I can't wait to use this in my classroom!

This is a good, basic beginning to understanding how to read maps, and basic understanding of world geography. The book is outlined as an assignment per day format, but we have used it as a once per week assignment (doing all of the assignments for that week in a day), which seemed to be more logical (the one assigment per day would take about 3 minutes, not enough time to "get into it"). It has accurate, clear directions and has been a great geography adjunct text for my 3rd grader, who can work independently with it. Enjoying it!