If you'd like to teach your children more about United States geography or countries around the world, a kid's atlas is a great place to start. An atlas for kids is designed to simplify geography concepts and to teach in a manner that will hold a child's attention span.

A great place to start is with a kids road atlas. Designed by road map experts such as Rand McNally or AAA, these kids road atlases have many activities and exercises to teach kids about United States geography, while they're sitting in the back seat. Instead of turning on a video, why not buy a kids road atlas and discuss the exercises while you're driving. It's a fabulous way for the whole family to engage in learning.

A United States kids atlas is also a great resource to have while you prepare for a vacation, family reunion or just to learn where a best friend is moving to. Regardeless of which brand you buy, they all have colorful maps and symbols to show cities, crops, state capitals, roads and much more. Many also have state trivia worked into the descriptons.

A World kids atlas is a good way to teach children about the countries in the world. You can also introduce your values and your belief system. So that when children are learning about countries, their history and conflicts in school, you'll feel secure that you first had a hand in helping them understand the moral issues surrounding those "facts."

A world globe really helps you explain the shape of the earth and how oceans, continents, and countries all fit together. It also helps explain time zones if you have friends in family that you need to call. Or why the plane ride is going to take so long. It's fun to play let's find where Daddy is today. Or let's see where Gramma and Grampa are vacationing.