Welcome to the First Month of our
Geography Terms Tour!
September’s Term is – Cliffs
During the month of September we will be traveling to Asia
to visit the
Great Trango Tower in Pakistan’s Baltoro Glacier Region .
(If you are already on a Geography Journey of your own,
with a different tour director, see if they could show you
where the highest cliff is located in your September Journey!)
Things you may need for your journey –
PASSPORTS
Your kiddos might enjoy a family passport for the year. We have used stickers or rubber stamps to mark our journey in a passport for two years. The boys have really enjoyed it!
- Enchanted Learning Simple Black and White Passport
- Very Nice Full Color Free Downloadable Printable Passports
LAPBOOK/NOTEBOOK
We have had the most fun with lapbooks. The boys fill an 8 x 11 piece of construction paper with items from their travels. We have played with Notebooking Pages as well, but my boys I like crafts a bit better.
Flags – Create a flag out of construction paper – print a flag to color from Enchanted Learning – or free hand a map with colored markers. <<Enchanted Learning Link to Pakistan’s Flag>>
Maps – We like to create topography maps, bird migration maps, or just major landmark maps. Blank Map of Asia Asian Geographic Regions World Atlas Map of Asia
You Tube Videos can help a child see where you are going – there is a very graphic base jumping video for the Trango Towers – <<ABC posted a free fall YouTube Video Here>>.
Wall Paper – You may want to find a great graphic and set it as a wallpaper on your computer for a time this month. I selected <<this Trango Tower Photo>> for our computer wallpaper.
Find Geography Notebooking Ideas!
We are working on goals given to us in the Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide by Maggie Hogan a Cindy Wiggers. We will be working out of the Middle School section. This book has the Terms, ways to mark a map, notebooking ideas, full Unit Study History lessons, Maps, Activities, Reproducibles and Timeline Figures. You can get yours today from Timberdoodle . com <<Click here >>
In Elementary School we used Galloping the Globe for our ideas. <<Click here to pick one up at Timberdoodle.com>>
I have a poster that we are using or our Terms Guide – <<You may order one Here>>
I can’t wait to see what you come up with! We started out with coloring flags and pointing to a continent on a globe – now we are moving up to detailing rivers and mountain regions, labeling cities and geographical areas on he map – to performing traditional dances – to following the GPS of migratory birds – to cooking a meal a month from the country – to finding one animal in the country – to making a 3D image of a significant structure – to writing essays about their history. How little or much is up to you – your time – and never forgetting – the interest of your child.
Post your Blog Link or
summary of your Geography Journey
in the comments!
or
Join us in the Blog Carnival – geography terms tour – Oct 1, 2010 edition.
(Look at the upper right hand side of the Carnival Page for the ORANGE box that says Submit your Blog Article To this Carnival.)
+Angie Wright
Pebblekeeper 
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so, would you consider re-opening the geography terms carnival again?
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We have loked at Africa(last year) and are very slowly finishing our study of the middle east before we move on to Asia.
Here is a link to posts with samples of work,books,resources used amongst it
http://homeschoolingdownunder.blogspot.com/search/label/GEOGRAPHY
Thanks Alison ~ I’ll go take a peek!
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I ordered TWO Geography Terms posters by accident and they will be sent here soon. Let me know if anyone wants one in Bend and they can get it from me and we can split the shipping…
The poster looks really nice…..
Found Marine Corp Nomads United States Lapbook post…. maybe that was/is the lapbook? Either way, here’s the link for that:
http://marinecorpsnomads.com/2008/08/our-united-states-lapbook.html
And it looks doable!
uh, well maybe not that one because the post was in 2008, but hey doesn’t it look good!?
I’ll work on taking pictures of our Geography Lapbooks. It is more like a scrapbook. Way back when, when I first learned of Lapbooking – Tobins Lab and such had not really come out full force on all of the paper folding and mini books and all of that jazz. It was more of a scrapbook of what you learned. So if you learn about Oregon, and Apples, and Tide pools. A paragraph written on each would be cut out and glued to the paper. A picture drawn of the state bird would be cut out and put in. Just a place to store the art work sort of. A remembering book – so that when Grandpa comes over or such – the kids can guide them through what they learned. These jazzed up workbooks in tiny folded form arn’t exactly what we do. 🙂 I like them. I’m um. Just too lazy. 🙂 I would consider printing the page of plates on one piece of paper (or how many fits) and then laminating it wit contact paper, and then cutting them out. As you “drive through” a state – you could put on on the state map.
We used 10 days in America all of last year, a game by timberdoodle. It is a bit spendy, over 20 dollars – but the america and europe games are the best investment we have ever made. um. or rather, my mom has ever made. 🙂
AWESOME! Perfect and thanks for hunting those down!
We never seem to finish our lapbooks… we start all jazzed, I end up working on it more than they do, and our interest in finishing it fizzles.
Thanks!
Would you use a ‘passport’ for US travels? suggestions for otherwise?
What I saw done this year was license plates on a map. . . . I’ll go look and see if I can find the link.
http://www.15q.net/curr.html is a site with the plates you could print and cut out.
http://www.squidoo.com/50statesnotebook is the squidoo lens that has a ton of links.
Melissa and Doug License Plate Game is what inspired the mom that I saw that did this smaller size for their lapbook : http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-License-Plate-Game/dp/B001QVI9CI
I can’t find the lapbook, of course, that was WAY COOL from last year. . . . .