We used The Everything Kids’ Geography Book as a guideline for 2nd Grade Geography, to get to know the world a little better. I divided the text of every chapter into shorter sections so that we could finish the chapter in about 4 weeks. Some chapters took a little longer to finish, but I managed to schedule the book for a period of 40 weeks.
We only studied Geography once a week, so we didn’t study all the countries in detail. But we finished a Travel Sheet for at least one country on each continent.
The Everything Kids’ Geography Book covers (in a nutshell) the following:
- Introduction to Geography
- The United States
- Canada, Mexico and Beyond
- South America
- Europe
- The Middle East
- Asia
- Africa
- Australia
- Antarctica and Beyond
This book does not include full color images or in-depth descriptions, but it does give a good overview of every continent and it’s countries. Some words are explained in the margin, and there is some key information on the countries, such as capital city, population, highest & lowest points, area and national holidays. I used the book as a guideline to “tour” the world, and collected photos and other information on the places mentioned in the book (see my article Geography – getting to know the world.
You can download my 40-week schedule here.
