Maggie2354 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) Hi! I have a high school daughter and middle school son. Our typical path of learning is doing Charlotte Mason style up through 8th grade and then switching to a more Classical approach for high school. This has worked well for us so far. My question is about teaching geography. I have read most of the Well Trained Mind and have not noticed whether she recommends doing geography alongside all other subjects or doing it as a separate subject. I may have just missed that part, not sure. Anyway, what's the best way to teach this? Thanks so much for any advice you can give! 🙂 Edited May 3, 2019 by Maggie2354 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie2354 Posted May 4, 2019 Author Share Posted May 4, 2019 Bumping..... Anyone? 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almondbutterandjelly Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I can only tell you what we did. I don't know that it was the best way. I wasn't going to do geography because I was doing three years of world history and one of US History. However, in my state, they do tend to require World Geography in public high school, and I wanted my dd to slide into admissions into our public university with no question, so once she picked her school, I decided to throw in a year of World Geography. We started with Ace Paces and got about half way through. They are painfully the opposite of modern, however, so I had to stop. We then studied Usborne's Geography and DK Geography. That finished out our year. If I had to do it again, I'd probably do something else. I had really been hoping for a git'er done approach, though. Sigh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSprout Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 Memoria Press has straightforward Geography. 1 & 2 are grades 5 to 8 ish. Geography 3 is more like 6th to 9th. If they've had no geography, the Geography 3 would be a lot of memorization, but it could be extended with the optional assignments to be enough for a credit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbutton Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 On 5/5/2019 at 6:22 AM, MamaSprout said: Memoria Press has straightforward Geography. 1 & 2 are grades 5 to 8 ish. Geography 3 is more like 6th to 9th. If they've had no geography, the Geography 3 would be a lot of memorization, but it could be extended with the optional assignments to be enough for a credit. We are using it alongside Ellen McHenry's Mapping the World with Art. Besides the mapping in the art portion, there are essays on the history of map-making and exploration. It's also super easy to find side resources such as podcasts (Stuff You Missed in History) that go along with those topics or regions. And documentaries--there are plenty of documentaries that can go well with Geography. The MP stuff does have historical information along with the maps and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 I don't know what WTM specifically says, but this is what we did. 1st-4th - talk about cultures and languages around the world as it comes up during world history, use globes and maps during history studies, do a Beginning Map Skills book, learn states and capitals 5th-8th - Trail Guide to World Geography & Trail Guide to US Geography high school - once a week play Seterra games All my high schoolers have a pretty good knowledge of where things are at when we talk about world events, which was my goal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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