{"id":2649,"date":"2020-11-28T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2021-01-28T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:30:01","slug":"middle-school-homeschool-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"Middle School Homeschool Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Middle School<\/strong> <strong>Homeschool Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\">In my past life, before becoming a stay at home, homeschool mom, volunteer of all activities, I was a professional planner.    I know what you are thinking: Wedding Planner?  Financial Planner?  Meal Planner?<br><br>I was a Land Use Planner.   The easiest explanation of  my time as a Land Use Planner is: I spent about 12 years of my life in two counties telling people what they can and can&#8217;t do on their own property.   That sums it up.  <br><br>Anyhow, geography has a special place in my heart and I am really excited with the recent curricula I have come across for Middle School.   We dabbled a little in elementary school and now we are really going to dive in.<br><br><strong>Sixth Grade Geography:<\/strong><br>I have found some great resources.  <br><br><strong>Literature and Mapping<\/strong>:  Geography:  Literature Approach by REA C. Berg<br><br>You will need: <strong>Holling Clancy Holling Books<\/strong> and the accompanying maps for <strong>Geography through Literature<\/strong>. <br>Seabird<br>Tree in the Trail<br>Paddle to the Sea<br>Minn of the Mississippi<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Hands on Geography<\/strong><br>Trail Guide to World Geography<br>Geography through Art <br>Eat Your Way Around the World.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2850\">Highlights from our Africa Unit Study<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\"><br><strong>From our Reading List<\/strong>: Around the World in Eighty Days. <a href=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=1040\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">(Sixth Grade Reading List)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Other Reading:<\/strong>  <br>Understanding Maps of our World <br>Maps and Cities  &amp;  Maps Today  both published by Gareth Stevens Publishing.<br><br><br>What we don&#8217;t finish in our second semester of our sixth grade year we will carry over into our first semester of our seventh grade year.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geography has a special place in my heart and I am really excited with the recent curricula I have come across for Middle School.   We dabbled a little in elementary school.  You can see what we used and plan on using below.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}