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I am realising that geography and maps are a weak area. I am seriously considering buying a few resources and was wondering if anyone has advice/ knowledge on these books.
-Uncle Josh's Outline Maps
-Trail Guide to World Gepgraphy by Cindy Wiggers
-Galloping the Globe by Loree Pettit and Dori Mullins
Thank you so much.
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We really liked Trail Guide to World Geography even though we never finished it. We did it in conjuction with our history. When we were studying acient history we did Africa and the Middle East, when studying the Middle Ages we did Europe etc. We had a good time researching the question together and drawing our own maps. It was a good refresher course for me especially the political aspect - Africa is very different now than we I studied world geography 
The book is divided in sections covering the world and all the continents. It is designed to be dome 4 days a week, 36 weeks. Each day has questions to be researched by younger kids (2nd- 4th grade) and for older kids (including high school). It is a very complete approach - it involves mapping, physical geo, political geo, culture and even some art.
If you have any specific questions I'll be happy to answer,
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Erin,
Inquiring minds want to know....What did you decide on? I am looking at a few of those books now.
Thanks!
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Just wanted to add another resource - Mapping the World by Heart by David Smith. If all you need are some outline maps, I like the ones provided here because they are big (11X17) so they have plenty of room for writing in rivers, countries, etc. The book comes with a form for ordering copies of the maps or you can save some money by going to Staples.
Overall, it's your basic program but it gives you the flexibility to do with it what you want. My kids really enjoyed the video - they enjoyed seeing kids making their own maps from memory.
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Natalia,
To answer your question. I didn't buy anything.  Seriously I was told Uncle Josh's outline maps book consists of half the book being world maps and the other half is the states of America. So this didn't sound applicable to us here.
I'm still interested in the other books, I just don't know enough information about them. I don't know anyone who has used them so I have no feedback to help me decide.
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Erin wrote:
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We do have Uncle Josh's Outline Map Book and you were informed correctly on what it contains. If you are interested in finding good outline maps of the world to use without buying a book, I've found these sites to have good downloadable outline maps to use. You can pick and choose what you want so wouldn't end up with lots of American maps or such you wouldn't need.
World Atlas.com
Houghton Mifflin - Education Place
The World Atlas.com site has a ton of other resources and activities if you search through the site. Additional great geopgraphy sites to use for a geography study are:
Test Your Geography Knowledge
Shepperd Software
One thing about the Uncle Josh's book, since it is only an outline book it doesn't have a study per se. It does have a page of good ideas for integrating outline maps in your general study. Here are some they include:
History
Draw explorer's routes and include drawing of the flag representing the country that sponsored each exploer. Color code routes and draw or connect a picture of the type of ship used by each explorer.
Record boundaries of lands conquered, territories established, new frontiers explored.
Introduce new subjects by using appropriate maps and labeling them.
Geography
Draw and label major rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water.
Draw physical features using colors as seen in atlases
Copy appropriate thematic maps from atlases.
Label countries, states, capitals, and major cities.
Literature
Select a map representing the area of you are studying and label areas mentioned in book.
Label major sources of water, transportation routes or movement as depicted in the literature selection.
Compare and contrast the climate and terrain in your story to where you live.
Map the action in the story if appropriate.
Science
Study the earth and hurricanes with maps.
Map geological regions and natural resources using color coding or different markinsgs (slashes, dots, etc.)
Use maps for learning about volcanoes, earthquakes, and other earth science topics.
Use maps for learning about the oceans and the water cycle.
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Erin,
I don't have a book suggestion, but just wanted to throw in that we keep our globe handy and use it all the time. Whatever we're reading, we find the setting on the globe and talk about it. This has really helped my kids with the big picture.
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Wow Mary,
These look great I can't wait to check it all out. Looks just what I've been looking for.
Btw, I've just been thinking of you. I've been preparing for a talk and been searching old posts from last year on CatholicCM when you have me all that great info on living the liturgical year. Thanks again.
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For real detailed maps -AAA street maps of various places are great. I'm sure other auto clubs sell similiar things. We got frustrated trying to find places like Ars on your standard maps. At the time AAA was giving them away free to members and we got every country in Europe. I think they charge now, but we have always been able to find even the most obscure reference.
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It's such a shame that the same David Smith who wrote Mapping the World by Heart seems to have written what could have been a great book called, *If the World Were a Village*.
It looks to be a great resource, but at the end of the book, it talks about *population control*. 
This was the review:
It's concept of making the world a village of 100 people makes statistics easier to understand. The mind is much more able to visualize the world and it's conditions. However, speaking against the tide of praise, which is never popular, I was very put-off by the pages at the end of the book regarding how to teach children about the global village. More than once, the author tells us that the "ONLY way" the goals of sufficient food, literacy and clean living conditions for everyone in the global village can be met is to stablilize the world's population. A book so focused on presenting facts and figures to children wants us to pump them full of government controlled population or worse, zero population, as the only way to "save the global village". A book that could have, and quite honestly should have, produced healthy conversations about environmental/humanitarian concerns and solutions just became a one way street of population propaganda.
And that's too bad, because I think this book could otherwise be excellent to help us understand the world in more global terms...something I'm really looking for a resource to do. 
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Wait! Maybe I just found what I'm looking for in VISUAL pictures!! This looks to be very promising for me. I want my kids to SEE how everyone in the world lives compared to us, and use that as a part of our geography this year. I think this should be a great way to do that.
Material World A Global Family Portrait
It looks fascinating!
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Thanks for all the feedback. I've just been checking out 'around the world in 180 days' http://www.home4schoolgear.com/arwoin180da.html
Has anyone seen this? It looks like a great spine with questions all done for me. It is for multi-ages with extension reading for the older children.
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To add another resource. I've just discovered the Evan Moore series.
http://www.evan-moor.com/catalog/series.asp?CID=14&SID=190
They look really good. The above web page allows you to look at the book page by page.
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