Oct
Geography Resources
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This long list of geography resources was posted on a yahoo group that I belong to… Bringing the World to Your Living Room
It looks really neat and I only had time to look at one or two links. I can’t vouch for all the links but I hope you get some good ideas and resources out of it.
I started using Galloping the Globe with my 2nd grader and it’s good. My oldest (in 8th grade) would like to do something similar except on a deeper scale. I’d like to add in Window on the World, which came recommended by missionary friends of ours. I really like to incorporate history/social studies and geography together. I’m looking for ways to do that without “reinventing the wheel”.
{Maybe this would be a good place to insert the following information: I need to change what I’m having my 8th grader do for history. I think we will be able to come back to what she was doing (hopefully), however it’s not working at this time. I’m learning that it’s okay to change, even though I really like the curriculum. 
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Resource Central has this extensive list of geography links.
Do you have good resources–books, ideas, sites, etc. for social studies, history and geography? Please share them in the comments…then I’ll know you stopped by and we can all benefit from your ideas.
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We use the book You Can Change the World…a children’s version of Operation World. We read the information about a country and then look it up on the map and pray for them. We review the countries they’ve learned, having a different child each time point them out on the map.
I’d love for someone to start a monthly country themed night for families. We could taste some foods from that country, hear a speaker who is from there or who has visited there, learn some other things about the country, do a craft, perhaps, and pray for that country. If several families worked together it would not be hard to do. I just don’t have time to coordinate it, or I would.
I could help, though! If anyone knows of something like this already happening, I’d love to hear about it.
Thanks Cyndy. I’ll look into the “You Can Change the World” book. That exactly what I’m looking for.
I’ve checked into setting up an “International Night”–very similar to what you are talking about except I’d thought it would be just a one time event. Maybe I’ll have to revisit this idea.
Geography:
Geography Songs, by Audio Memory. Love these -
http://www.audiomemory.com/geography.php
History:
All Through the Ages, by Christine Miller. History through literature. Lists of books arranged by era and broken down by age group; lists of books arranged by history of disciplines (science, literature, etc.):
http://www.nothingnewpress.com/atta.shtml
Comment: I found that the upper level (grades 10-12) selections could be very advanced (kinda dry?) or contain content I would not care for my children to read. But I found plenty of selections in the grades 4-6 and grades 7-9 categories that were great, even for high schoolers. We got many, many of these books from our local library; from the county, state, and national level via interlibrary loan. All you need is a little lead time to give them time to trickle in from all over.