Geography Brainteasers provides the opportunity for the instructor to teach critical thinking, research, and map reading skills in one lesson. Helpful resources to complete the brain teasers include encyclopedias, geographic dictionaries and maps. The first section is entitled "The World", thereafter, the book is divided into sections corresponding to the six inhabited continents of the world. Each section includes analogies based on geography, science and historical facts.

A set of reproducible activities for classroom use, designed to promote critical thinking, research and map reading skills.

180 questions about interesting facts and important locations spark interest in geography and challenge kids to put their knowledge to work! Kids will locate the smallest country in the world, find a place where the sun never sets, learn how glaciers move, and find out how their state got its name. Answers included. Each is spiralbound and conveniently boxed.

180 questions about interesting facts and important locations spark interest in geography and challenge kids to put their knowledge to work! Kids will locate the smallest country in the world, find a place where the sun never sets, learn how glaciers move, and find out how their state got its name. Answers included. Each is spiralbound and conveniently boxed.

It is possible to make geography fun and challenging! Students learn about their world in a whole new way through a myriad of creative puzzles, fun riddles, and challenging logic problems. Covers the five fundamental themes of geography -- location; place; movement; regions; and human interaction with the air, sea, and land. Chapters include: Word Wackies, Geography Analogies, Geography Riddles, and Logic Puzzles. A motivating way, to introduce students to the world of geography!

Become the ultimate map reader with this quiz book for all ages.

What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time. It contains brain-busting challenges of almost every type: math logic problems for the numerically inclined; absolutely amazing lateral thinking conundrums; really great critical thinking bafflers; and mind-boggling word puzzles. Here's just a small sample of what's inside: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so? Stumped? That's because it's one man--Grover Cleveland--who was reelected after skipping a term. And that's just an easy warm-up!