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Excellence of Wisdom shares a post full of great geography links
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Jolanthe at Homeschool Creations shares a Children Just Like Me activity sheet.
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KC @ The Wonder Years shares how she uses fabric maps to teach geography.
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Carisa at 1+1+1=1 shares her Rwanda lapbook, created to help teach her son about the country where the child they help sponsor lives.
This week's tasty picnic treat come to us from: Annette at The Whipples, who shared this fun and edible geography lesson that she used when she was teaching in a classroom and feels it would be most appropriate for older students, grades 3-8th. She noted in her submission that it could be a mini lesson where students learn basic facts such as largest/smallest country, population, longest river, tallest mountain and so forth. It might be fun tied into the Olympics, too.
Eat the World
~Prepare Rice Krispy treats. (The microwave version is best for doing it with children.)
~Form the RKT into continents. Do this using a laminated world map. You may want to butter the continents first.
~Have the students make country flags using toothpicks and small pieces of paper. (Either ahead of time or simply using markers)
~As a wrap up to a unit study or independent study, students can place their flags dramatically into the proper place on the country’s continent and share several facts about the country they studied.
~Then of course, you get to Eat the World!
~This could easily be adapted for a study of the US states too.
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This Thursday's Picnic Table Talk topic will be to share ideas on how to keep your child occupied and happy while out and about. You could let us know:
~car games and activities that keep your child busy while traveling or running errands
~ways you pass the time when your waiting, like at the doctors or in line
~quiet games that travel well
~any ideas for keeping little ones quiet at worship services?
~travel tips for families
~any other idea you can think of that help you get from point A to point B!
Love the Rice Krispy idea. Although does it count if I eat the world straight from the mixing bowl! Heehee.
ReplyDeleteThanks for including our Eat the World idea!
ReplyDeleteA combination of all these ideas would be a great unit study.
The picnic talk this week will be tough for me. I have had lots of ideas, but none really entertain Meghan!
Great activities and links.
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