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Geography : A Geography Activity
"Euston, We Have a Problem..." © Beverley Paine, August 2007 [this article forms part of a series on Geography you can buy as a Practical Homeschooling booklet from Always Learning Books] Before the activity locate and print half a dozen satellite images of the Earth from space. Black and white images, if they are sharp, should suffice for this activity. You will also need a good atlas or world globe. The best time to do this activity is in response to a news item about a pending launch or return of the space shuttle or the space station. If you have any toy space shuttles or rockets, or if the children enjoy playing with space LEGO or other similar toys, you could weave that into the narrative. You may suggest they are astronauts stranded in space with an instrument black out - only the radio link to Mission Control is working. They children have to look down at the Earth (the image you give them) and try to identify where they are so that a rescue mission can find them. Alternatively, they might decide to be aliens looking for somewhere to invade... When your children are trying to identify the geographic locations of their images, ask them what identifying clues do they see? What is happening in the pictures to make these places look the way they do? Be sure to model geographic thinking and terminology. For a more challenging activity try using Satellite images at Night.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.