Geography is very much liked in our little homeschool.

All of the kids enjoy learning about our country and the rest of the world. Maps are actually a favorite form of 'reading'. Matthew will sit down with an Atlas and just read through it.

Anyway we use several different resources, books, and tools in our geography studies so I hope I can remember them all.

Kimberly uses an Atlas we found at a used book store. It's a little bit outdated (Russia is still U.S.S.R.) but other than that it is very complete and contains a ton of information.  The workbook we use is "Challenging World Geography" the Second Edition. It's a pretty good study where she is learning the countries, major landmarks, mountains, rivers, oceans, seas, language, population, national products, national animals and is pretty thorough.

We also use a lot of the National Geographic website and have a magazine subscription. A fun thing that we did in our study of Australia was we got a travel guide and Kimberly planned a month long trip of the country as well as writing a day to day journal of what she saw and where she went. It was great.

Matthew is just beginning with maps and is using "The Complete Book of Maps and Geography". He will actually sit down and just go through the book. I don't really have to tell him what to do. He's learning about the U.S. right now and having fun donig it. 

Kaitlynn is basically following along with us as we talk about the different countries and looks at the atlas when Matthew sits down to look at it.

One thing we have just started using is the Ambleside Online curriculum and do work in some of the reading suggested for geography when we can find the book. Our library is quite small and has a very limited selection of books.

That's our geography study. It's not the best, but it's always evolving.