National Geographic Bee Official Study Guide

by Stephen F. Cunha

Book Overview

How to Ace the National Geographic Bee aims to help kids in grades four through eight prepare to compete in the Society's annual geography competition. Featuring maps, photos, graphs, a variety of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426301987
• ISBN13: 9781426301988
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Useful Study Guide

This book is a guide just as the title says. It does not contain geographic details. Only a strategy book. Still very useful and informative. Shipped promptly. Book looks new. Excellent seller.

Study guide

The kids studying for the bee want to borrow this book that I bought for my daughter.

A good place to start studying for the GeoBee - but not the whole kit.

The National Geographic Bee Official Study Guide, 3rd ed. is a tiny book - barely more than a pamphlet. Yet, within its slim 127 pages you'll find a comprehensive description of the Bee process, plenty of study advice, and, most valuable of all, a couple of hundred practice questions. The quality of the information included is excellent; and given the authoritative section on the Bee's rules and procedures - this book is indispensable for anyone planning to take the Bee. Why not five stars? For one thing, there is almost no geography content here. The Study Guide isn't intended to be where you actually learn your geography. It's the rules for the Bee, a good peek at the form and content of the questions, and some good general advice about preparation and that's it. You'll have to look elsewhere for the actual geography (and the book has some advice where). In practice, you'll study using on-line games, globes and atlases most. However there are books which do a far better job of actually preparing you for the Bee - primarily "The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook: 1,001 Questions & Answers to Help You Win Again and Again" by Matthew T. Rosenberg. That book has much more of what you're looking for - with more study content, more practice questions, and more tactics and advice. That being said, you really shouldn't skip this one if you're serious either - because it's the real deal straight from the horse's mouth. Just don't be surprised when you see how really really little this book actually is.

Excellent!

This study guide is a great choice for students who are trying to prepare for the bee. Not only does it have sample questions and maps actually used in the geography bee, it gives tips about how to look at the clues in the questions to help you find the right answer. It also has advice from students who have done well in previous bees and goes through all the rules and formats of the different levels of the competition. I highly recommend this book!

I think people are being mislead...

A lot of people might think that this book is probably just questions and answers and some stuff on how to be prepared. But what it really is is just what it says: A study guide. A study guide, meaning tips on how to prepare, links to different geography resources, how the geography bee works, things like that, interviews with past school, state, and national champs, with one chapter featuring sample questions. This one chapter has about 70 questions from a typical school preliminary round, I think like 10 from a typical school final round, something like 5 analogy and 5 map questions from the state qualification exam, around 25 questions from the state prelim round, about 10 from the state final round, 10 from the national preliminary, and some more from the national final round. As it explained at the beginning of that chapter, the questions were only given to show the reader what kinds of questions you'd encounter at the school, state, and national levels.I'd recommend this book if you are truly a novice to the geography bee, or if you've never been pass the school level and want to see what further levels are like, or if you just want the satisfaction of having the OFFICIAL study guide from National Geographic.If you are already a little more experienced, you might want to try "The Handy Geography Answer Book" or "The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook: 1001 Questions & Answers to help you WIn Again and Again", both by the same author. Be careful with the latter, though, there are 3 questions that have the wrong answer.