What's the title of the book showing families around the world with a week's worth of

[vmsurbat]

food? I think that might be a good supplement for my son's world geography course. I can't think of either the title or the author and there may be more than one book on the topic....

Anybody know?

Thanks!

[periwinkle]

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

Before that book, he had also released Material World, which shows photos of families from different countries standing outside of their house with ALL their posessions.

These are wonderful additions to a geography course.

[vmsurbat]

Thanks for listing both titles--now I know why I thought there was two....

[Lori L]

My daughter loves these books! Geography has been one of her favorite high school courses.

[carol]

Those books look great! What do you all use for a spine?
Do you do geography for a whole year or a half?

Carol

[vmsurbat]

I've used two different spines: Runkle's for one year and BJU this past year (for one son) and next year (for another).

Runkle's is mainly Physical Geography (covered in the first 5 chapters of BJU's text). It is very good and readable but lightweight *if* your student has covered much earth science previously. Runkle's doesn't address cultural or political geography at all. (ie, countries and how people live).

BJU's text is very comprehensive but do-able when spread out over the year. It also has an accompanying activity book--this includes mapwork plus all sorts of other activities to choose from (if desired) listed by chapter. We add "living" books but I don't want to design an entire course around such things (although that could be easily done *if* you have the time, energy, and resources to do so).

Abeka's Geography is meant to be covered in a (packed) semester. It might be a good choice if you want to add *lots* of other readings and supplementary activities. I don't know what teacher helps there are, though.

HTH,

[periwinkle]

for 2 very different students (oldest ds and middle ds).

The academic reader used Abeka's geography course (supposed to be one semester of high school), supplemented by Dorling Kindersley's Geography of the World, other living books (Material World and such), videos, and missionary stories. He competed in the Geography Bee and made it to the state finals:D

The reluctant artist used Wynn Kapit's Geography Coloring Book as a spine, supplemented by lots of videos and some living books (including Material World). He also did a lot of work on Sheppard software's site, working through their map games.

[carol]

Since you supplemented with abeka did you issue 1/2 credit or a full credit?

Carol

[periwinkle]

However if oldest ds had completed that work in high school, I would have definitely issued a full credit. He did a ton of studying/reading that year and learned more world geography than I ever dreamed possible. It was one of his interests at the time, though.

[Kareni]

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

Before that book, he had also released Material World, which shows photos of families from different countries standing outside of their house with ALL their posessions.

These are wonderful additions to a geography course.

Agreeing that these are indeed wonderful books! [And great for browsing even if your child is not doing Geography.]

Regards,
Kareni