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Your children can become junior cartographers and learn to “map the world by heart”, literally, with this wonderful aid to geographical literacy. Amazing results are achieved by using this incremental program which gives students a real sense of the world’s layout. A variety of wonderful activities are used to develop both map-drawing and map-reading skills. The lessons are clear and easy to use, with helpful illustrations. While not as comprehensive as a high-school geography course, this program does include the study of different cultures and global issues related to geography. It would work well as a stand-alone course for late elementary grades or junior high, or in conjunction with a geography text in high school. The program was revised and updated in 2010 and now includes the curriculum (in 3-ring binder), and a set of 17 maps. The set of maps includes 10 regional maps (Canada, U.S., Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe and North Asia, South Asia, and Oceania) as well as blank grids and filled-in outline maps of the world in Mercator, Robinson and Equirectangular projections. Additional map sets are also available separately. Three additional appendices have been added to the curriculum, which apply the “mapping by heart” method to the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, for smaller, more focused studies.

Customer Review

 
Tammy C. from Van Buren, AR wrote the following on 08/22/2011:
This comprehensive program is fun and makes geography exciting. I neglected geography because I hadn't studied it since I was in 6th grade, but my oldest child will graduate this year. I knew that he needed more knowledge of geography to fully understand current events, so I reviewed my options and selected Mapping The World By Heart. I am so impressed with this program! It is designed to be used in one year, but could easily be adapted to stretch across numerous years. I intended to use it for my kids in grades 7-12, but I had to include my 4th and 5th graders as well because they wouldn't leave during the lesson and kept asking to work on their own maps. I have visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners, and they all love it. It provides a ready-made lesson plan, as well as a 'menu' approach that lets you choose which areas you would like to address. It covers everything from longitude and mapping all the countries of the world, to how to say hello in different languages. There is very little teacher preparation. I just read the lesson ahead of time and make sure I have the correct map on our board. It's flexible, interactive, comprehensive, easy to use, teaches multiple ages, works with different learning styles, and it's fun! It is one of the best purchases I've made in 13 years of homeschooling. Well worth the cost!