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๐Ÿ—บ Homeschool Maps & Geography (Recent Posts)

All the Ivans dreaming of their villages
all the Marias dreaming of their walled cities,
picking up fragments of New World slowly,
not knowing how to put them together nor how to join
image with image, now I know how it was with you, an old map
made long before I was born shows ancient
rights of way where I walked when I was ten burning with desire
for the worldโ€™s great splendors, a child who traced voyages
indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country
remembers the first river, the first
field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building,
that new smell, and remembers
the walls of the garden, the first light.

โ€”Denise Levertov

A collection of great homeschool teaching ideas and little lessons on maps, atlases, and geography from the River Houses Homeschool Network. See our regular States & Countries posts for still more geographical teaching resources, and add your name to our free River Houses mailing list to get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿ“ก ๐ŸŽ… ๐ŸฆŒ NORADโ€™s Santa Tracker is Up!

22 December 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Want to know when your Christmas presents will arrive? Don’t ask Amazon, ask NORAD! (And maybe even learn a little world geography along the way.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Maps & Geography

๐ŸŒŽ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ—บ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Aย (Nearly) Free World Heritage Wall Map

19 August 2020 by Bob O'Hara

Get your own full-color wall map of UNESCO World Heritage Sites for only the cost of shipping, and follow along with us as we tour the world during the 2020โ€“2021 River Houses homeschool year.

Filed Under: Homeschool Maps & Geography, Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ MEMORIAL DAY 2020

24 May 2020 by Bob O'Hara

“Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! / The thoughts of men shall be / As sentinels to keep / Your rest from danger free.” (Little homeschool lessons in literature, history, geography, and music, for the Memorial Day weekend.)

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature, Homeschool Maps & Geography

๐Ÿ“ก ๐ŸŽ… ๐ŸฆŒ NORADโ€™s Santa Tracker is Up!

24 December 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Want to know when your Christmas presents will arrive? Don’t ask Amazon, ask NORAD!

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Maps & Geography

๐Ÿ—บ MARVELOUS MAPS: A Geology Lesson from the Library of Congress

22 October 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Teach a little lesson on geology and plate tectonics this week with some beautiful maps from the collections of the Library of Congress.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Maps & Geography, Homeschool Natural History

โš”๏ธ REMEMBERING the Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C.

12 September 2019 by Bob O'Hara

The Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. was one of the most consequential battles in the history of the Western world. It’s an event every homeschool student should know.

Filed Under: Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature, Homeschool Maps & Geography

๐ŸŒŽ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ—บ WEEKLY WORLD HERITAGE: Aย (Nearly) Free World Heritage Wall Map

21 August 2019 by Bob O'Hara

Get your own full-color wall map of UNESCO World Heritage Sites for only the cost of shipping, and follow along with us as we tour the world during the 2019โ€“2020 River Houses homeschool year.

Filed Under: Homeschool Maps & Geography, Homeschool States & Countries, Weekly World Heritage

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ HOMESCHOOL MUSIC & HISTORY: โ€œTo find the hand of Franklinโ€

19 May 2019 by Bob O'Hara

To understand a complex and beautiful piece of literature or music you must already know a great deal about the world โ€” names, places, people, and events, that may seem at first to be disconnected.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Maps & Geography

๐Ÿ—บ LIBRARY TUESDAY: Mapping the Longest River (at the Library of Congress)

16 October 2018 by Bob O'Hara

It’s Homeschool Library Tuesday! This week: mapping the world’s longest rivers, the Amazon and the Nile, at the Library of Congress.

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Maps & Geography

Saturday Arts: The Maps of Abraham Ortelius (1527โ€“1598)

14 April 2018 by Bob O'Hara

Art and science combine in the maps of Renaissance cartographer Abraham Ortelius, born on this day in 1527. Explore a wonderful online Ortelius exhibit in your homeschool this week.

Filed Under: Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Maps & Geography

Tuesday Tea at the Library: The Challenger Deep

23 January 2018 by Bob O'Hara

It’s Tuesday Tea at the Library! This week, take a few homeschool minutes to visit the bottom of the ocean (via the Library of Congress).

Filed Under: Homeschool Books & Libraries, Homeschool Maps & Geography

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