• Mar. 21, 2008 - Geography with Younger Ones
There are been some discussion on a couple of the homeschool loops I've been on about how much young children are retaining and how much is sticking. There has been some specific discussion about how to adapt curriculum to a study of world geography for younger students. It got me thinking and I posted my thoughts on the loop. I've included some of those thoughts here as well.
I've been thinking about this for a while because honestly I don't really remembering getting much geography in school with the exception of high school history. Even Western Civ in college was more events than place driven. Frankly I've learned more geography and really its whole roll in history after starting to homeschool and primarily after starting to use Sonlight. Even now I'm not so sure how much geography my children have absorbed from our school studies. BUT and here is the key my children can find Florida where they live on a map. (okay we're an easy state to find), they can find Uganda where their brother lived), China (where Jacob spent a month), Norway (where they went), varies US states when they wanted to know where their friends who RV full time were, etc. So the trend here that I've seen is they remember places that have relevancy to them either directly or indirectly. So I think that's were having pen pals or online friends, missionaries, etc. can be the key. Also why things like Five in the Row work because after spending a week with a book character they can become something like a friend. Another words China isn't just China but China is where Ping lives or in our case where Jacob was last summer. |
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