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A Child's Geography
A Child's Geography Explore His Earth, Volume 1
Open the book and step outside your door into a delightful world of learning in the exciting A Child\x26rsquo;s Geography series! This updated, all\-in\-one course for Volume 1, Explore His Earth, will take you and your fledgling geographers on amazing adventures through our Father\x26rsquo;s world. Discover the atmosphere, the lithosphere, plate tectonics, weather, significant scientific discoveries, the world\x26rsquo;s ocean, the hydrosphere, maps, longitude, latitude, and more – in ways that you will never forget! With built\-in worksheets and fun activities, the course encourages students to take an active journey to learn about and appreciate the world God has created! Course components
168 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2008
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Ann Voskamp
92 books1,374 followersAnn Voskamp is a farmer's wife, the home-educating mama to a half-dozen exuberant kids, and author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, a New York Times sixty-week bestseller..
Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
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Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
Connect with Ann on:
AnnVoskamp.com
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February 5, 2013
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We completed Ann Voskamp's A Child's Geography volume 1 last week. We weren't very consistent reading it, and finished it in less than a year. There are only 11 chapters, with several divisions each, so a focused study could be completed relatively quickly. This curriculum can be used in as much depth as appropriate with the extras included in the curriculum and additional books or projects. I agree with the other review on GoodReads that suggests that the book, on its own, is sufficient for early elementary ... perhaps even a little challenging for that age.
Ann Voskamp, of course, is the author of 1000 Gifts and a well-respected blogger at A Holy Experience. Her writing style has a distinctive poetry to it which some readers find enjoyable and some find difficult.
Here, her prose is much more straightforward, yet still retains some of the poetic qualities of her writing. I found it to be a much better style for readability. The text was clear and precise. The integration of verses from the Bible was fitting rather than tacked on. The worldview is decidedly creationist with explanations from the flood and creation woven in seamlessly and appropriately, in my opinion. I would think this would be a difficult text to use in a secular way.
The excitement of the author of seemingly mundane topics like the layers of the atmosphere and the engaging presentation were great. Her explanations were good. I loved how longitude was explained as a problem that needed solved with the story of how it was solved.
I, the mom, learned a lot about Physical Geography using this book. Embarrassingly, I had 45 hours of Geography coursework in college for my major, and I don't remember anything about most of what is covered in this text in that coursework.
For example, I couldn't ever remember which was longitude and which was latitude (I always talked myself into the wrong one). Thanks to Ann's Latitude Ladder song, I don't think I'll forget. The names of continents and their etymology was so interesting. Imaginary travel up through the layers of the atmosphere and down through the layers of the core and their protection and provision for earth's crust were creative and well thought.
The chapter on the Oceans was not our favorite, but still had good information.
I agree with the reviewer who complained that the quality of images could be better; bigger and more up to date would be an improvement. That is a minor quibble with how much we liked this book.
We did not complete many of the projects or writing suggestions in the book, but I could easily imagine using this again in the future in a much more thorough way. The program comes with a CD-ROM with copywork and other pre-designed forms to aid with writing and narration.
Overall, we enjoyed this study, and I hope to utilize it in more depth again.
We completed Ann Voskamp's A Child's Geography volume 1 last week. We weren't very consistent reading it, and finished it in less than a year. There are only 11 chapters, with several divisions each, so a focused study could be completed relatively quickly. This curriculum can be used in as much depth as appropriate with the extras included in the curriculum and additional books or projects. I agree with the other review on GoodReads that suggests that the book, on its own, is sufficient for early elementary ... perhaps even a little challenging for that age.
Ann Voskamp, of course, is the author of 1000 Gifts and a well-respected blogger at A Holy Experience. Her writing style has a distinctive poetry to it which some readers find enjoyable and some find difficult.
Here, her prose is much more straightforward, yet still retains some of the poetic qualities of her writing. I found it to be a much better style for readability. The text was clear and precise. The integration of verses from the Bible was fitting rather than tacked on. The worldview is decidedly creationist with explanations from the flood and creation woven in seamlessly and appropriately, in my opinion. I would think this would be a difficult text to use in a secular way.
The excitement of the author of seemingly mundane topics like the layers of the atmosphere and the engaging presentation were great. Her explanations were good. I loved how longitude was explained as a problem that needed solved with the story of how it was solved.
I, the mom, learned a lot about Physical Geography using this book. Embarrassingly, I had 45 hours of Geography coursework in college for my major, and I don't remember anything about most of what is covered in this text in that coursework.
For example, I couldn't ever remember which was longitude and which was latitude (I always talked myself into the wrong one). Thanks to Ann's Latitude Ladder song, I don't think I'll forget. The names of continents and their etymology was so interesting. Imaginary travel up through the layers of the atmosphere and down through the layers of the core and their protection and provision for earth's crust were creative and well thought.
The chapter on the Oceans was not our favorite, but still had good information.
I agree with the reviewer who complained that the quality of images could be better; bigger and more up to date would be an improvement. That is a minor quibble with how much we liked this book.
We did not complete many of the projects or writing suggestions in the book, but I could easily imagine using this again in the future in a much more thorough way. The program comes with a CD-ROM with copywork and other pre-designed forms to aid with writing and narration.
Overall, we enjoyed this study, and I hope to utilize it in more depth again.
January 5, 2010
This was a great read and as we finished it up today the children were disappointed it was over. They really enjoyed the style of the book and enjoyed the stopping points mid chapter to "tell the folks at home all about it." I think we might even give it another read later and go more in depth with additional books. We did some supplemental reading but not a whole lot this time around. It was very complete as a stand alone for this 1st and 2nd grade level.
February 8, 2023
I loved the biblical perspective of ths curriculum. We read this aloud and it was very story like while still giving us scientific insights as we examined earth. The additional resources lists were amazing for bulking up the lessons for older students. Some of the author's illustrations were a little to young for my students, lower elementary would be best served in my opinion.
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