Thursday, May 29, 2014

First Things First

What is the first thing you need to do when you sign up for your GED class?  All students need to create an account in MY GED--https://ged.com/

GED Social Studies

When is the last time you examined a map?  Questions on the new GED test ask questions about the  location of countries.  For example, a question might read:

Which country is located north of the equator: Chile, Egypt, Madagascar, or South Africa?  Underline on the map the name of the continent that is home to that country.  You are then given this map:

Notice that the countries are not labeled.  What does this mean to you?  You need to learn  to identify countries on a map.

The following link is a larger map that is labeled for you to study.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-maps/world-map-with-latitude-and-longitude.html