If you've visited this blog before, I'm sure you've looked around and you might have even discovered that my family and I participate in a postcard exchange. We actually participate in more than one postcard exchange, but I'll tell you more about that later. We wanted to explore the world, one postcard at a time, and we haven't been disappointed (except when we haven't received the promised card, but this post isn't about changing people...!) Postcard exchanges are a great way to introduce a unit study on geography or for social studies! Heck, it's also good for math, science, language...

Anyway, I've tried to find lessons, worksheets and activities that will enhance our experience, as well as contribute to our learning more than just the geography of the area! Well, as you can probably guess, my desktop and bookmark folders are full, so I'm going to list them here! I hope that you'll find them useful.

• Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
  • A Day in the Life of a Child - Spotlight on Africa
  • African Art and Identity
  • A Cultural Venture to Côte d'Ivoire
  • Partons en Côte d'Ivoire
• Project Finland
• Exploring New Zealand
• Australia
• London or Bust!
• Trip to London Webquest
• Circling the Globe - Flight Itinerary
• You Can Find It
• A Visit to Japan
  • Geography of Japan
• ISS EarthKAM
• Exploring the Environment
• Maps & Flags
• Arizona
• Countries Around the World
• Parlez-Vous Français? 
  • France
• Les Vacances Webquest
• Cyberquête: J'ai le droit de savoir
• Les ressources naturelles du monde et les impérialismes
• La course autour du monde (Objectifs et/ou Compétences)
• Austria Webquest (This webquest is in powerpoint, should the link not work, copy and paste www.courses.dsu.edu/lt726/Austria Webquest.ppt )
  • Congress of Vienna
• Flowing Through the Cities
• Searching for China
  • Ancient China
  • Melissa and Lindsay's China Unit Plan
  • China
• Russia
  • Russia 1914-1953 Worksheets
• The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Switzerland
  • Switzerland
  • Suisse

I actually have many more links to worksheets, activities and lessons, but I'll save them for another day! Although, my life has been crazy of late, we do plan on getting back into our postcard exchange...but I promised to share the postcard eGroups that we trade with. The first site is PostcardKids, which is a group made up entirely of Homeschool Families, and the other site is Postcrossing! Postcrossing is a group that includes members from around the World, who are just interested in exchanging postcards for the love of postcards! We've received some incredible cards from the far corners of the World! What a trip! Check out our online photo album, and then imagine, I've got about 20 more cards to add! 

So, if you are interested in starting a new project or are just trying to add a little more excitement to your homeschool classroom, this could open up the World around you! Who knows...maybe you make a new friend or two!!