Or, some rainy day, suggest they draw imaginary treasure maps for fun. See if you can find your street on a town or city map. Point out where your relatives or your children s best friends live. Before taking a trip, show your children a map of where you are going and how you plan to get there. Look for other routes you could take and talk about why you chose the one you did.
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. A picture of a desert can stimulate conversation about the features of a desert - dry and barren. Talk about the many different places and imagine what it would be like to visit them.