Use the scale to measure the straight-line distance between Manchester and Mount Washington. On a globe or world map, ask your child to point with a finger to the North Pole, South Pole, and the Equator. Ask which is the Western Hemisphere, the Eastern Hemisphere, and in which one do we live. Find the lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole and identify them as lines of longitude . Talk about what these lines mean.
Children use all of their senses to learn about the world.
Put together puzzles of the United States or the world. By touching and looking at the puzzle pieces, they can better understand where one place is located in relation to others. Use pictures from books and magazines to help your children associate geographic terms with visual images. Talk about many different places and imagine what it would be like to visit them. Make a three-dimensional map of your home or neighborhood using milk cartons for buildings.