Natural Wonders of the World Workbook
$15.95
Explore 20 of Earth’s most remarkable natural wonders—perfect for middle and high school students!
Available in PDF or paperback format.
Description
Learning about natural wonders helps students understand how plate tectonics, erosion, water, climate, and living things shape our planet. Natural Wonders of the World uses real photographs, maps, diagrams, short readings, and critical-thinking activities to show students how earth science and geography work together to explain the world’s most remarkable places.
This workbook gives students a guided tour of 20 natural wonders on six continents—from the Grand Canyon and the Amazon Rainforest to Mount Everest, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Mariana Trench. It’s ideal for 6th- to 9th-grade students, homeschool families, and anyone who wants to better understand how Earth’s landscapes form, change, and shape the lives of the people around them.
Why Homeschoolers Love This Workbook
- Real places, real science, connecting famous landscapes to the earth processes that created them
- Maps, photographs, and diagrams that show where each wonder is and how it formed
- Critical-thinking questions that encourage students to explain, compare, and apply what they learn
- Open-and-go format designed for independent learners and classroom use
- Cross-curricular connections that link earth science with biology, history, art, math, and civics
This Workbook is Perfect For
- Homeschool families seeking an engaging and secular earth science and geography resource
- Middle & high school students studying physical geography, earth science, or world geography
- Independent learners curious about the planet’s most extraordinary places
Inside You’ll Find
- 20 natural wonder spotlights featuring canyons, volcanoes, glaciers, reefs, deserts, and more; perfect for a wonder-of-the-week routine
- Two-page wonder profiles with a map, key vocabulary, short readings, and Think & Apply questions
- Earth science activities with diagrams that show how each wonder formed over time
- Cross-curricular extensions in human geography, biology, history, art, math, and civics
- My Natural Wonder project for researching and illustrating a wonder of the student’s own choosing
- Answer key and suggested supplements for checking work and further exploration
This resource is 95 pages.
Choose a print-ready PDF (black & white and color) to print and bind at home or at a print shop, or a paperback on Amazon (black & white only). The PDF is not editable.
What grades is this intended for?
This was designed to work for a wide range of ages, from upper elementary through high school.
What formats does this come in? Can I modify this?
This workbook is available in two versions: a PDF file that’s available for instant download from the LCG website and as a print paperback through Amazon. Neither are editable.
What skills does this workbook practice?
Several! The activities in this workbook address:
- Strengthening global awareness and understanding of unique places throughout the world
- Making cross-curricular connections between geography, earth science and several other subjects
- Identifying how places hold importance to people and their cultures
- Using informational texts, visuals, and maps to answer questions and support ideas
- Developing critical thinking, discussion, and reflection skills
What are the terms of use for this resource?
This resource, including all ancillary files, may be used as needed for regular, non-commercial single-classroom or homeschool use between a teacher/parent and their student(s).
This includes printing copies and sharing digital files with students through a secure platform, like Google Classroom or Canvas, email, or a classroom-only shared drive.
The using and sharing of any part of this resource in any manner outside the above-mentioned capacity is strictly prohibited. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to,
- posting files on the open internet or in a Facebook group
- emailing files to or sharing print copies with others (without purchasing additional licenses)
- uploading or storing files in a shared cloud drive accessible by anyone other than students
- including any part, or any derivative work, within any commercial endeavor like curriculum development, professional training, or for-profit teaching like Outschool, or selling this resource as your own in either print or digital formats
Doing so violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright law, and these terms.
By downloading this resource from Let’s Cultivate Greatness, the original user has been granted one license for a single teacher (or number of teachers matching the number of licenses purchased) and their students at any one time.
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