Hands-On Geography Activities {History Unit Studies}

This post shares lots of hands on geography activities which are perfect to use along with any history unit studies. Over the years we have studied many cultures, from ancient history all the way up to modern history and everything in between. Having a great set of geography activities to choose from is vital for…

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Around the World with FIAR: Henry the Castaway

Geographical Theme for Term: South America We read through this book again: Henry the Castaway is a story about a boy who imagines going for an adventure on the Orinoco River.  This river runs through Venezuela and Colombia: As we had already covered Columbia in a past study, we focused primarily on Venezuela this week.…

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South America – Learning through Literature

  Whilst the older ones are studying all things Shakespeare, the littles will be focusing their time on South America.  The unit study will be two pronged using both literature and project based learning.  This post will be about our literature based learning and tomorrow I will post about the projects they will be attempting.…

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Around the World with FIAR: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening is a poem by one of my very favourite poets, Robert Frost.  This a simple poem which Frost claims he wrote in just one night.  Simple it maybe, but it has a class that spans the ages.  As it is short I have included it here: Whose…

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Renaissance Explorers: Making and Using a Magnetic Compass

Compass Rose It was during the Explorer's Age that cartographers began using a compass rose to display orientation with regards to the map on which it was placed:  A compass rose displays the cardinal directions of North, South, East and West on a map or nautical chart.  We had already come across the compass rose…

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Continent Study: Antarctica – Digging Deeper

I still felt there was much to explore in our Antarctica study but we were running out of time.  I chose three more, fairly effortless activities to do to wind up our studies. Modern autobiographies about visiting Antarctica Much of what we had learnt about this pole came from secondary sources, although we did look…

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Explorer and Leadership Study: Ernest Shackleton in Antarctica

I remember my Dad dropping Shackleton's name into the conversation often when I was little.  He was, quite rightly, very proud to have 'connections' to this great explorer, albeit it on my mother's side rather than his own.  I grew up knowing we were related and that this was a good thing.  However, I had…

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