Hands-On, Activity-Based Program
Introduce first-graders to geography using developmentally appropriate tools and activities!
Discover What's Inside
Encompass Viewpoints introduces first-graders to geography through the following topics:
- Unit 1: What Can We Learn from Maps and Globes?
- Unit 2: What Can We Learn about Neighborhoods?
- Unit 3: What Can We Learn about the United States?
- Unit 4: What Can We Learn about the World?
Build Foundational Skills
Using hands-on activities, you’ll teach first-graders the following foundational skills and concepts:
- Identifying symbols, land, and water on a map
- Comparing maps and globes and continents and oceans
- Identifying changes in our world
- Finding a route and locating states on a map
- Identifying north, south, east, and west
- Understanding the differences between day and night
Supplement Social Studies with Turnkey Activities
Encompass is a fun and flexible way to teach geographic literacy. Skills-based activities can be taught sequentially or stand on their own. And at 15–30 minutes, they’re easy to fit into instructional time.
Each activity includes an assessment and a cross-curricular extension. And we provide answer keys too. Activity examples: Scavenger Hunt, Pictures and Symbols, Reading a Map, Natural or Not?
Get a Cartful of Components
- Encompass Viewpoints Teacher’s Guide
- See the World Student Atlas—set of 30
- 9″ Activity Globe—set of 6
- U.S./World Desk Map—set of 30
- Community Desk Map—set of 15
- Social Studies Place Mat—set of 6
- U.S. Natural Regions Raised Relief Map—set of 6
- Wet-Erase Markers—set of 30
- Elementary Atlas Cart
- Interactive Mapping Activities
Give Young Learners Digital Practice
Access the digital version of Viewpoints at Nystrom World. Interactive mapping activities correspond to the print versions and give first-graders practice with multistep problems. A PDF of the teacher’s guide is included.
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