Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. We have a living approach to geography. It’s not a separate subject but one that we occasionally integrate into our normal curriculum by studying maps as the opportunity arises. Basically all we need is an atlas and some outline maps. But I had a big gap in my resources when it […]
Notebooking for Research Skills
We use lots of notebooking in our homeschool, mostly for narration. But notebooking has other applications too such as research. Honing research skills is one of the goals I have listed for Sprite’s middle school years, so I try to regularly incorporate short research assignments into her schedule. Here are two recent examples. Uganda Notebooking […]
Teaching Geography Without Buying a Curriculum
I have a couple of geography resources on the shelf, but mostly we cover geography by integrating it into our other lessons. And more often than not, it is not planned. Case in point: yesterday’s study of the Strait of Magellan. In Sprite’s proofreading practice (Evan Moor Daily Proofreading, grade 6) she came across strait […]
Salt Dough Map of Alabama
Somehow I managed to get through my childhood without ever making a salt dough map. Or if I did make one, it made so little impression on me that I don’t remember it at all. Well, not wanting to repeat that travesty with Sprite, we made a salt dough map this week! It was quite […]
Singing the Praises of Geography Songs
A couple of months ago, we were in a fast food restaurant in an Atlanta suburb when I let Sprite climb around in the indoor play area. A man with two small boys came in and watched them play. From his accent, I guessed he was not a native born American but an immigrant. I […]