We pay attention to major and peculiar current events and look up on maps where these events have taken place.  Such as the recent Cyclone, the earthquake in China, tornadoes in the midwest, floods, and hurricanes.  We also check out the peculiar headlines on the internet and see where some of these things are taking place.  An example for this would be the baby born with two faces in India.

They have also played most of the Social Studies games found on http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/funandgames.htm .

We've loosely followed the presidential race.  We have researched where the candidates are from, their family life, political party, past presidents, which also led into learning about other areas of the government, American history, and various state histories.

We collect the various pamplets that show the historical/interesting areas throughout our state, we read each one and discuss if this is something we'd like to visit.  Usually funds keep us from most, but we try to schedule field trips with out local homeschoolers to some of them nearby.  So far we went on guided tours of the WV Wildlife Center, exotic animal pets, WDTV television station, WV Heritage Crafts Co-Op, and the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.  The kids take loads of pictures and are always quick to fill-in their dad and grandparents with all the details of the trips.