BakersDozen Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 The information I have for Social Studies indicates that a student may take World History OR World Geography. If your dc has done both, do you incorporate the Geography credit into the History credit or assign a separate credit? For example, my oldest dd has done 3 years of MFW and will finish with at least part of the final year, Geography included. My next two dc have done MOH which has involved a lot of mapping skills these last two years. Would this Geography work just be a part of their History credit rather than an extra .5 credit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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justkeepswimming Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Does MFW have a suggestion for how to count the credits? TOG has a suggestion list with each of their years, not sure if MFW might have something similar somewhere on their website... My oldest (10th) is going to do a full year of Cultural and Physical Geography this coming year. Her sister (8th) is also. When dd#2 is in high school, I doubt we'll do a full year of geography since she'll have covered it so thoroughly in 8th grade, so she'll just have American & World History credits, and we'll just count the history map work with history instead of a separate geography credit or half-credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merylvdm Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Mine did it as a full credit - we love geography! I made up a curriculum that included watching lots of travel DVDs so they could 'see' the geography and then they did research and wrote up web pages on various places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth S Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Our 4 years of high school social studies look like this: 1) US History 2) World History 3) Geography/Economics (1 semester of each) 4) Psychology/Amer Govt (1 semester of each) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 My oldest will have the following: World Geography World History US History Gov't/Econ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbollin Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Does MFW have a suggestion for how to count the credits? TOG has a suggestion list with each of their years, not sure if MFW might have something similar somewhere on their website... yes they do... go on this link... scroll to 12th grade planning and there are notes on how it is done and when https://www.mfwbooks.com/inc/pdf/HS_Course_of_Study.pdf?r12 it's .25 credit in WHL for the map work then, a .25 credit in US2 (12th grade year) with some map work and a cultural aspect with reading and such. then, if one needs the other .5 credit, they list ideas on that link on page 4 of the file What I decided was that after we're done with the geography readings/activities in US2, I'll just count it as .5 credit in 12th grade. That was easier than having .25 credit in 10th and .25 in 12th. My cover school was fine with it that way. Options around here locally in group schools is a course called World History with Geography. and it's just 1 credit for the course. overall in social studies my oldest will have Ancient History World History US HIstory Gov't. .5 Econ. 5 credit World Geography, .5 (showing in 2nd semester of 12th...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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