hmm, I didn't set the margins for the picture very well. Right click view it to read it clearly.

edit: Lucky fixed it so you may click on it to view it in it's original state. Thanks Lucky

Hey that green space north of us Amercans is not uninhibited. Theres polar bears there!

Hahaha LMFAHS!
That's f#@%ing hilarious. "Pussies." "Bombs go here." Hehehe.

>> ^twiddles:
Hey that green space north of us Amercans is not uninhibited. Theres polar bears there!

Yeah, they are not uninhibited at all. I once heard they do jumping jacks wearing g-strings in public. Total free spirits.

Poler Bears wearin g-strings? Is that sum kinda crazy guberment program?

They got Hawai'i backwards.

Damnit, we didnt even get insulted. being ignored is almost worse...

for starters, get a globe:
http://shopping.discovery.com/product-12297.html?endecaSID=11A002CA36E4
A very important feature to look for in a globe is raised-relief to represent land elevation.

Got that. I have the land maps too, and an Atlas or two. I guess I'm looking more for lesson plans on social studies/culture to go alone with the geography. I've been winging it, but I would much rather have a structured plan that's systematic.

you homeschool? wow. i've thought a lot about that recently, although i am coming down on the side of finding the best local school i can, and making sure i monitor and augment the lessons. anyway i haven't got kids so it's no biggie

i think it's a very politically charged area, like history, so it's hard to get a balanced view across without turning your kids into cynical chainsmokers.

if they are old enough to understand, you could start with this map and explain why it's a funny satire. you can then start to add information about the stuff NOT on the map, and why it's important to know about other people in order to know more about yourself.

and remember to show those cool animations of how boundaries change over time. I think it's important to understand that these things are not set in stone. Like the Queen is German. That one really opened my eyes.

I would suggest taking a look to see if anything meets your needs at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Social_sciences_bookshelf

If you are doing student directed study you may want to use Wikipedia and set some time allotment based on some metric. I would personally be inclined to suggest studying culture/history on each continent for an amount of time relative to its land mass, though population would also be a useful metric. Random country of the week might also be a balanced way to go about it, and it would keep you busy for a few years.

I would like to be doing what you are doing because I know there is a lot I could learn about Africa,Asia and S. America which my US education left out.

Interesting, approach. I started history with Sumer and the fertile cresent and thought I'd keep going from there and they would pick up geography along with history.

I fear it's going to take forever before I get around to current cultures that they need to know now too. So I suppose I should create something along the lines of a social studies curriculum. The geography will be a bonus.

I just don't see Geography as a subject on it's own. It just doesn't hold interest to flat memorize places without caring about them.