What is your favorite US Geography program? Not textbooks!! (nt)

[Kelley]

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[Amy+2]

For right now, since my kids are younger, we really enjoy Galloping the Globe and Cantering the Country for our geography. They work great for us! ;)

[one l michele]

Simply Stated.

[rwalizer]

We use Geography Trails World Geography. I think it is the same company that makes the curriculum Amy recommended. If the US geo is similar to the world geo then it must be very good.

[Krista in LA]

We are using the world geography this year, but I like it enough that I'm planning on using the US geography next year. It covers all grade levels so you can even use it more than once. I really like the cd that you can get that has all of the student pages with it too.

[King Alfred Academy]

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for and I have not even read a page of these books and I don't know if they are US (I think they are), but what about the Holling C. Holling books. Here is a link (http://www.lamppostpublishing.com/geography_beautiful_feet.htm) with maps and a study guide to use with them. I am looking into them for my boys next year.
HTH

[Dayle in Guatemala]

Beautiful Feet Geography using the Holling C. Holling books. We are actually repeating this next year at the request of my dc. They enjoyed it, too. I would recommend the map pack from Rainbow Resource, too. They are wonderful, inexpensive, and make beautiful maps.

[mcconnellboys]

The Beautiful Feet guide using the Holling books.

Regena

[Ann in IA]

Beautiful Feet Geography using the Holling C. Holling books. We are actually repeating this next year at the request of my dc. They enjoyed it, too. I would recommend the map pack from Rainbow Resource, too. They are wonderful, inexpensive, and make beautiful maps.

Ditto!

I plan on using the Trail guides mentioned above in other posts later on in middle school

[VanessaS]

Oooh. Those Geography Matters curriculum look great. Thanks so much! I've been looking everywhere for something like this!

[Closeacademy]

We've been reading Holling C. Holling's Paddle to the Sea and have been learning quite a bit about the Great Lakes. I've paged through the other books of his and I would say that a good map and a set of his books will give you a fun U.S. geography course.

I keep the maps next to the beds so we can look at them and talk about them at night, too.

[kortney in AL]

I like Geography Trails. We've also done the Beautiful Feet geography with the Holling books. We got the map set to go with it. My kids did such a great job on those maps. They are works of art!! I have them hanging in my kitchen.

[SAMom]

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[Mrs. Readsalot]

I like to combine great books with learning geography so this was a natural winner for us.

[amary]

Evan-Moor continent series (e.g., North America grades 3-6 not the little kids one) ages 7-8 along with fiction and non-fiction from public library

Linked with history ages 9-10 (we just use a children's atlas, outline maps and globe).

Holling Unit (Beautiful Feet) around ages 10-12

Maps, Charts & Graphs G and H for practice in reading all kinds of maps around 7th/8th grade

9th grade Runkle, just the mapping part so that they will memorize the world along with Geography Encyclopedia (Kingfisher I think)