Geography

Where did you make hijrah/move to?

Posted on August 8, 2009. Filed under: Geography | Tags: , , |

Alhamdulillah. We’ve made it to our new home in the UAE! We lived in Yemen for almost six years.  It was a bittersweet move as we miss Yemen (most of the kids spent most of their life there), but after four years, our whole family is together once again, masha Allah.
I’m working on a project [...]

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Help your kids become geographically literate

Posted on October 22, 2008. Filed under: Geography | Tags: , , , , |

While researching for homeschooling and my geography page at TJ, I came across the following statistics:
A nine-nation survey found that one in five young Americans (18- to 24-year-olds) could not locate the United States on an outline map of the world. Young Americans knew measurably less geography than Americans 25 years of age and over. [...]

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Need help teaching Geography?

Posted on February 14, 2008. Filed under: Geography |

The following book is free:  “Help your students master geography in 7 months.”  Its not quite what I expected, it sounded like a more structured geography program for seven months, but just gives a kind of loose outline. Nonetheless, it has beautiful color maps and loads of links to geography games you [...]

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Continents and Oceans

Posted on April 16, 2007. Filed under: Geography |

Geography: Study of Continents and Oceans
This is a simple outline that I have put together for our studies of the continents.(2nd grade/3rd grade)
1. Learn names/locations of the seven continents and four oceans using globe/maps, quizzes (there is an excellent quiz at National Geographic where kids can earn a certificate–I don’t have the link handy, but [...]

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