Adding more mapwork/geography to SOTW for logic stage?

[athena1277]

Dd loves to do the mapwork in SOTW, but always complains that there is not enough. Next year she will be in 5th and I plan to go back to do SOTW 1 with her. I would love to add more mapwork or geography to our lessons for dd (ds will do the maps in the AG as a 1st grader). I do not have the time to come up with mapwork for every lesson. Is there something out there that someone else has worked up that goes along with it? Thanks!

[Chris in VA]

I'm sure there is, but one way I found to make the mapwork a little more involved is to have dd draw a key for each map. She also colored in more of the map (colored pencils), but that may feel like busy work to some.

I know TOG has a neat overlay map system--you could see if anyone has posted about that. It uses transparencies.

I do like putting an acetate outline map with current borders/countries over some of the SOTW maps, but I don't have anything I can share. I just think it's nice when the kids know what part of the "current" world they are learning about via Ancients.

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

Maybe get her an atlas and then blank outline maps and let her completely fill them in herself, using the atlas as a guide. I have this and it is pretty cool.

[Kalmia]

This workbook goes along well with the sequence in SOTW.

 

World Map Skills

 

http://www.amazon.com/World-Map-Skills-Grade-6/dp/0880129352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354385974&sr=8-1&keywords=World+map+skills

[Dolphin]

We are doing SOTW 1 again in 5th. We are doing the mapwork, but I am also starting drawing the world by heart. We are going to work through that over the next 2 years.

[Chrysalis Academy]

A lot of people seem to like Ellen McHenry's Mapping the World with Art. I haven't used it, but I'm planning to when we start over with Ancients again next year.

[Cynful]

Check out Map Trek:

 

http://www.knowledgequestmaps.com/Map-Trek-Outline-Maps.html