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Great for Home Schoolers:
We are a homeschooling family who is always looking for a fun and easy way to learn any subject. This book was top-notch with our five children from ages 7-16. Perfect U.S. geography course in 50 easy lessons! Highly recommended.
The Perfect Information Source For Children:
Did you know that Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" has an amazing 90 lakes called Long Lake? Or did you know that the two Choctaw Indian words "okla," meaning people, and "humma," meaning red, makes up the state Oklahoma? Well, these facts along with a plethora of other information can be obtained in this fantastic book. This book is absolutely perfect for children. Each state is consisely laid out in an easy-to-read format that is loaded with information. The drawings are also excellent in peppering the pages to break up all of the details. This is a type of hands-on book that challanges children to learn about their country in fifty educationally-fun geography lessons. This book gives its readers a lesson in human spirit by teaching a little bit about America's past, while imploring everyone to partake in it's future. This book is a must read for children.
great learning tool:
We just got the book kids learn america for our homeschool. As a family we hope to learn more about the nation that we live in. The first state in the book is connecticut. It talks about Mark Twain living and writing there. So that opened a discussion on his writing as we will be watching a movie based on his writings tonight as a family. I look forward to learn more as we got through this book.
The layout is nice, but it could have been written better:
The activities in this book are complicated and dull. Example: Make a movie in your mind. When you think "south" think "S" for sun. What is the sun shining on? It's shining on Christmas carolers who are standing on top of the space shuttle, Columbia, as it's landing. Now that would be some sight, wouldn't it? Sunny south with carolers = South Carolina. Picture the space shuttle, Columbia. Columbia = Columbia. Columbia, South Carolina. My daughter gave up on this book pretty quickly, and I don't blame her. The black and white pictures aren't always clear. It took me a while to realize that the smudge on the South Carolina page is actually supposed to represent the bombing of Fort Sumter. I would encourage the authors to try this book again, but to have a panel of children give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to the activities. And fix the graphics.
Good as a starting place:
I had this book as a kid, and I enjoyed looking through it, but didn't learn much from it. I got this as a basic guide to help my kids learn about the states. We homeschool, and this book is serving as an introduction to the states, supplemented with books from the library about the people, places and events mentioned in this book. There isn't much information on each state, just a few, almost random facts. It works for us, but I would not recommend this book to someone else. I got it mostly because I was familiar with it.
| Author: | Patricia Gordon | | Author: | Reed C. Snow | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 973 | | EAN: | 9781885593313 | | Edition: | Revised | | ISBN: | 1885593317 | | Number Of Pages: | 176 | | Publication Date: | 1999-04 | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 |
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