Etkids Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 I love the looks of the Trail Guide to World Geography Series & have plans to use this with my 6th & 9th grader this year, but I get VERY intimidated by "unit studies". Could someone help ease my mind that I can do this! Maybe you have some tips to offer, or even share your plans at using it. Thanks & Be blessed in ALL you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 If you are referring to Trail Guide to World/Bible/US Geography by Geography Matters it is not necessarily a unit study. We use it as a single class. About 1 geography question a day plus a few notebook exercises and a mapping exercise 1x per week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siloam Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 I love the looks of the Trail Guide to World Geography Series & have plans to use this with my 6th & 9th grader this year, but I get VERY intimidated by "unit studies". Could someone help ease my mind that I can do this! Maybe you have some tips to offer, or even share your plans at using it. Thanks & Be blessed in ALL you do! I don't see it as a unit study either. It includes information on each state (I have the state version), and it has daily questions where you are encouraged to use an Almanac to look up the answers. My bigger issue is that I didn't want to be memorizing the state birds, flowers, ect...and there is a lot of that covered. Heather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 We haven't started yet but it looks like it will be a lot of fun! I plan to have my ds do it twice per week: Day 1 - 10 min geography trails (day 1 & 2), 20 min mapping exercises & memorization, and 30 min trail blaze assignment and/or read & research Day 2 - 10 min geography trails (day 3 & 4), 20 min write summary or make chart, graph, or thematic map; and 30 min georaphy through art Jennifer Mother to Noah Age 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanaTron Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I haven't totally planned it out yet, other than deciding to do 2 days/week, but this we'll be doing something similar to jibaker103 with TG to World Geo this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I agree with the others, I wouldn't consider it a unit study. It is a very easy to implement geography program. My children greatly enjoyed it. There is a cookbook to go along with it if you want to add some more fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoatogirl Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 We started out using it as written, but found that it was taking 25 minutes to do the 10 minutes of work (on the non-research days). It took more time to take out the materials than to find the items on the map and mark them. Now I do geography 1-2 times a week for about 1/2 hour and use the mapping activities in the book as a guide, as well as the questions. I skip alot of the question (I guess these are the "trails") because I found they were asking for details that I knew my kids wouldn't retain. I want them to be able to find major points on a map and to have a mental image of the people and terrain at this point (middle school) as well as the region's impact on the world/economy (high school). We aren't studying for the geography bee, so I'm skipping the smaller stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoatogirl Posted August 9, 2009 Share Posted August 9, 2009 Oh, I should add that due to the course load we have in other areas, we do not do the activities (reports, art, food) in the book. They are wonderful suggestions if you have time, but we no longer do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etkids Posted August 10, 2009 Author Share Posted August 10, 2009 Thank you for showing me that I "can" do as little as 2 questions or as much as everything that's in the book. I am going to order this as I really think it would be fun and good for us to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srainbow Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I have a fourth grader that I thought trail guides to world geography would work for. Is she too young? I do have a 7th grader too but I hadn't planned on doing geography with her this year. Maybe I should teach it to them both? Thanks, Siobhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibaker103 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I have a fourth grader that I thought trail guides to world geography would work for. Is she too young? I do have a 7th grader too but I hadn't planned on doing geography with her this year. Maybe I should teach it to them both? Thanks, Siobhan It has 4 different levels so different ages can be studying the same country! So your 4th and 7th grader can both use it. Jennifer Mother to Noah Age 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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