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Geography
Quick Links to Geography Lesson Plans and Activities [this list of links is available an information sheet that comes in the Practical Homeschooling: Geography booklet you can soon buy from Always Learning Books] Mapping a Garden to learn the basics of map making The Ancient World learn about the migration of people in ancient times Creating a Travel Brochure - Students create a travel brochure for visiting China. Includes a printable outine to help students plan their project. Easily adaptable for any country or state Postcards: Discover America Through Postcards Travel along with a husband and wife in their RV. Receive daily postcards via email or start your own homeschool postcard club! Secret Agents Understanding simple geographic tools; locations and characteristics of places and regions. Create a Country: Students apply geography skills to create a map of an imaginary country. Flat Stanley - its based on the book. You send off flat stanleys to schools or addresses around the US. They stay for a visit and return with a journal explaining the events of the stay-- the neat part is, these host states can include information, brochures, pictures... Global Economy: A Simple Activity Comparing Countries Memorable Maps Global Balloons learn about longitude and latitude Geography of Pizza (yrs 8-12) To describe a pattern of spatial organization, you must first break the pattern into its simplest components: points, lines, and areas. This lesson uses a local service business-pizza restaurants-to introduce these components to students. Continents and Oceans - A printable word search puzzle of the continents and oceans names Who Sliced this Pie - A lesson plan for a simulation activity that teaches students about the distribution of the Earths resources and population Earth at Night License Plate Checklist More family fun while traveling -- bring along this pictorial checklist and see how many state's plates you spot! Culture Boxes: this activity will help you identify features of your own culture A Message in a Bottle create an imaginary tale of travel and adventure Our World - My Own Island - How are They Connected - A complete instructional unit with printable activities and assessment rubrics. Students participate in a simulation activity by designing an island, and learn basic geography skills Monkey Map As they invent a story and find a route to a stolen simian, students will go ape for this mapping activity! The Seven Continents learn the song - makes remembering the continents easy! Where In The World using the media to kickstart conversations about geography GeoPictionary - Directions for a pictionary type game with geographic places and terms to draw and identify Travel Brochure - Students create an itinerary and brochure of five different countries. A checklist for the project and related web links are provided
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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.