whitestavern Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I'm thinking of taking a year off of history next year. We're due for SOTW 4, but since I have a 2nd and 4th grader that do history together, I want to wait a year on this. (I may change my mind if Susan comes out with the activity pages for the younger kids by fall.) I thought of replacing it with geography, but we've done quite a bit of world and US geography and they've done some mapping books so I'm unsure what to do. I could do states and capitals, but that wouldn't take a year and they do know probably 1/4 of them anyway. Does anyone have any ideas for something completely different to replace the lost subject? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 What about some cultural studies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 How about weather and climate zones? You could watch planet earth for each climate, then learn even more about it. (I don't exactly mean climate, I can't think of the word right now. Desert, temperate...) To me, weather is also an interesting subject, our library had a lot of good books about it, but I'm waiting, they were a bit to old for us right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 (I don't exactly mean climate, I can't think of the word right now. Desert, temperate...) biozome? biozone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 biozome? biozone? Biome! That's what I was thinking of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usetoschool Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 People? SOTW covers leaders but just an overview. How about more in depth about leaders, authors, composers, regular people or children in various time periods and cultures. Where and how they lived, what they ate, what they wore, what school was like. Or a little geneology of your own family? Where they came from and how they lived and how it might have tied in with things going on at the time in the world? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Could you explore your family's cultural roots? Go deep into the areas your ancestors are from, with a little history, some geography (include cities, rivers, mountain ranges, etc.), some cooking, religious traditons, and then add in legends/fairytales, literature set in the countries of origin, etc. If you can, document family stories--do you have relatives (older) that you could explore oral history with? It could be a really fun, really meaningful year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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