This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Build a decorated box and fill it with research that can help you get to your dream location someday!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.