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WonderMaps for Living Geography

March 22, 2012 By Jimmie Quick 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: curriculum, geography Tagged With: bright ideas press, geography, maps, software, wondermaps

Notebooking for Research Skills

January 5, 2012 By Jimmie Quick 2 Comments

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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 […]

Filed Under: notebooking Tagged With: geography, notebooking, research

Teaching Geography Without Buying a Curriculum

November 17, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 9 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: geography, notebooking Tagged With: atlas, geography, notebooking, reference skills

Salt Dough Map of Alabama

January 22, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: geography, hands-on homeschool Tagged With: geography, hands-on, maps

Singing the Praises of Geography Songs

February 16, 2008 By Jimmie Quick 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: curriculum, geography Tagged With: audio, geography, songs

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