Hands-On, Activity-Based Program
Introduce kindergartners to geography using developmentally appropriate tools and activities!
Discover What's Inside
Encompass Beginnings introduces kindergartners to geography through the following topics:
- Unit 1: Family, Friends, and Me
- Unit 2: Seeing Our World
- Unit 3: Living Together
- Unit 4: Our Country
- Unit 5: Around the World
Build Foundational Skills
Using hands-on activities, you’ll teach kindergartners the following foundational skills and concepts:
- Identifying items in an atlas
- Identifying three different types of homes
- Distinguishing between a map and a model
- Drawing symbols on a map
- Locating your state on a map
- Comparing families from different parts of the world
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: Models and Maps, Town and Farm Alphabet, Symbols of Our Country, Global Celebrations
Get a Cartful of Components
Your students will enjoy working collectively with the markable globe, map, and Place Mat.
- Encompass Beginnings Teacher’s Guide
- The World Around Me Student Atlas—set of 30
- 9″ Activity Globe—set of 6
- Community Desk Map—set of 30
- Social Studies Place Mat—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 Beginnings at Nystrom World. Interactive mapping activities correspond to the print versions and give kindergartners practice with multistep problems. A PDF of the teacher’s guide is included.
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