Welcome back to Blogging through the Alphabet. Today we are looking at the letter G. I must confess this letter stumped me for a few days until I resigned myself to writing about Geography in your homeschool. My co-host Desiree is sharing G is for Green in her Lego ABC series.
Geography tends to be one of those neglected subjects within homeschooling circles and some curriculum providors. It does not need to be however as there are some really amazing resources available to us now. Below I've listed a few resources to get you started.
Unit Studies on this blog
As we travel the globe on our discovery of Geography I will be adding more geography unit studies to this blog.
- Megamaps. I love this website. You choose the size (as small as one page or as large as 7 feet accross) and then print on A4 sheets of paper to create the map of your choice. Best of all it's FREE!
- Uncle Josh's Outline Map Collection has over 260 printable Maps.
- World, Country and State Maps
- World, Country and State Maps by World Atlas
- Globalmania–Learn world geography in 7 months.
- Historical World Atlas
(Libraries are an excellent resource to teach for FREE)
- World Map Skills
- Geography Songs
- A Child's Introduction to the World
- The Geography Book
- Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
- A country far away
- Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography
- A Child's Geography (Ann Voskamp)
- Encyclopedia of World Geography (Internet Linked)
- The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide
- Global Art by Rebecca Van Slyke
- Geograhy from A to Z by Jack Knowlton
- Discover Downunder - Australian Geography for Kids by Michelle from Homeschooling Downunder.
- If You Were Me and Lived In ... Series by Carole P.Roman.
- Drawing Around the World: Europe by The Geography Drawing Series.
Homeschool giveaways has an excellent resource list of printables too
On Pinterest
- YouTube Geography
- Expedition Earth Journey
- Every Bed of Roses
- Teaching Blog Addict
- Meet Penny
- Planet Smarty Pants
- Enchanted Homeschooling Mom
- Marcia
- Jimmie Lanley
- i Homeschool Network
- Curriculum Choice
- Confessions of a Homeschooler
- Bright Ideas Press
- Charlotte Mason: Geography
- Let's Go Geography take a look at a free lesson here.
Expedition Earth
Sir N and I are currently working through Expedition Earth: A Journey through God's World. This curriculum was written by Erica from over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. We have been working our way slowly through this download watching YouTube clips, cooking and extra Notebooking pages. Sir N is enjoying it so much that he calls it our Travel School.
Trail Guide to World Geography
Trail Guide to World Geography This particular package is my all time favourite. You can purchase this as a book or an eBook download. This little big book is chock full.
If you do this book with your children they will have covered geography
from A-Z in three years. You do each section once. Once in primary
school, once in middle school and once in high school. Each time your
student does a year they go deeper learn more and practise more.
Each level is a complete 36 week school year course. The teachers
manual comes with everything you need to successfully and
comprehensively teach geography without any prior knowledge of the
subject. There are also student work books available for each grade level.
Other Resources
- Ticket to Ride by Alan R. Moon
- Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
- Carmen Sandiego Games
- If It Were My Home
- Visualizing the True Size of Land Masses from Largest to Smallest.
- The Hungry Planet What the World Eats
- Material World - A Global Family Portrait.
- Home Geography by CC Long.
Did you know that the total area of land surface on earth is: 143,804,549 square km?
What are YOUR favourite Geography Resources ?
Blessings
Chareen
Find the other ABC posts in this series here:
- A is for Art Lessons at Home
- B is for Books Where do You Purchase Yours?
- Charlotte Mason a Round Up of Posts
- Delight Directed Education
- Encouragement for Weary Homeschooling Mothers
- For the Children's Sake
- G is for Geography
Featured from Week 4 all things 'F'
- F is for Farm and F is for Face over at Our Homeschool Notebook
- F is for Fort Sumter and F is for Fire Safety over at A Mom's Quest to Teach.
- Homeschooling Tips from A to Z: the Letter F over at Homeschooling Highway
- Gabriel Faure ~ Composer ABCsby Lori at At Home: Where Life Happens.
- Discovering the F Rabbits of the World , How to Feed Rabbits and F is for Frogs by Annette over at At Home Pets & A Net in Time.
This week over at Our Homeschool Notebook the topic is G is for Green .
Please link up your posts starting with the letter F for this weeks ABC Blogging.
I think I have the Trail Guide somewhere...it looks so familiar from when I was teaching. My son loved Let's Go Geography...the lessons were fun and the crafts were adorable.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all of this information. I will be giving MegaMaps a closer look for sure.
ReplyDeleteByron's Games has a great board game and a free app. I know we have really liked those. And Let's Go Geography is a fabulous curriculum for elementary and early middle school.
ReplyDeleteI love maps. The idea of printing a huge map sounds fun. We have used some of these resources over the years, but there are many here I haven't so I'm excited to have this list! I love geography.
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