LauraJ Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Any ideas for a fun geography and science curriculum for a hands-on co-op? It would be for elementary age children? I am looking at curriculum and have been searching on here for some ideas but have yet to find much. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dailynn Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't used these but we are looking at using them for co-op this fall. They are one day a week unit studies. http://homeschoollegacy.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't used this but our co-op has done both Galloping the Globe and Cantering the Country (different years) for grades 1-3 geography This year my kids are in an Animals and Their Habitats lapbook class (grades 1-3) Next year they are offering a earth and space lapbook class and a human body class (grades 1-3). I did find a list of books and week by week breakdown for the human body class. http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/science/otters_science/science_human_body.html We generally offer a class called "science fun" every year but are breaking from that last year. It is a hard age range because there is so much variation in abilities. Some can read, some can't. Some can cut. Some can't., etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I haven't used these but we are looking at using them for co-op this fall. They are one day a week unit studies. http://homeschoollegacy.com Thank you so much for this link!!!! I had never seen these before and they had EXACTLY what I was looking for! Seriously, I would kiss you if you were here. :001_wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraJ Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 Thank you SO much! I will look into all of these! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGHEALTHYMOM Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Geography Songs with book worked great one year for us and Whiz Kids Science projects My Body was fun too ( especially for K-3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegeyser Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 We use a combination of Simply Charlotte Mason's Visits to Africa, living books, map drill, interesting things I find on the Internet, and this rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl9e809Y8Ec. The rap artist has several other geography based songs, and they are very catchy! We reduced the SCM resource to 24 weeks by eliminating some of the Make Your Own Map exercises and focusing on approx 2 countries each week. Usually I just highlight one of them more in depth. We learn a few lines of the rap each week. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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