A Trip Around the World!

~ The Seven Continents Reader: A printable 9 page book about the continents labeled for 3rd Grade from Enchanted Learning.
~ Continents Worksheets, Maps, & Quizzes
~ Continents Wheel: contains small pictures and names.
~ Flags of the World Wheel

~ Countries of the World: Profiles from InfoPlease gives a flag picture, small map, basic facts, and info on major historical happenings of the country. Search countries by alphabetical list.

~ National Geographic Kids is a wonderful website for children to research, learn, and play! Click on "People & Places" to search out the country you want. Each 'country' page has geography facts, pictures, a video, map, e-card, printable page, and
a country card! (The cards would be fun to collect,
play games, review, or put in a "passport"!!)

~ Countries of the World: Country facts including histories of all countries, geography, population, government, economy, thousands of photographs from many countries, maps, flags, country ranks, geographic names, dictionary of occupational titles, US Census 2000, health topics A to Z, human anatomy, dictionary of geology, energy dictionary, world pipelines maps, drugs, international classification of diseases, and other data.

~ The Flags of the World Section of Enchanted Learning allows you to find cool information and pictures of flags according to continent, country, color, type, shape, and language! I really like the printable "Flag Wheels" of each continent! We will use these to put in our lapbooks / notebooks. Many of the countries have individual flag pages to print and color, along with maps, quizzes, and information that would be great to put in our notebooks, also.
~ Flags of the World ~ free public domain pictures!

~ It's fun to study the Art & Artists, Music & Musicians, Authors, Inventors, Explorers, Plants, Animals, Weather, and other things from a country to help understand the culture a little more!

~ Geography for Kids has great maps and information about continents and countries of the world.

~ Explorer Unit at Homeschool Share

~ This Country Unit Study from Funschooling Unit Studies has teaching ideas to use in many subjects with any country.

World Landmarks
~ The middle school lesson plan, "Landmarks of Civilzation", introduces students to amazing structure landmarks around the world. The lesson, discussion questions, research links and books, vocabulary, and evaluation suggestions are included.
~ World Landmarks Bingo Cards - printout 8 free Bingo cards to review these well known locations.

~ Mini Unit Studies Labeled for 1st Grade
* The Seven Wonders of the World: Part 1
* The Seven Wonders of the World: Part 2
* Cultures Around the World I & II
* Community & Citizenship
* Jobs & Careers I & II
* The Land Bridge & Early Americans

~ Country Worksheets from abcTeach: All sorts of maps, flag, reading comprehension activities, crossword puzzles, word searches, word unscrambles, posters, mini books, coloring pages, report forms, writing prompts, cards, and more for the continents and countries of the world.

~ *Country & Cultures Lapbook Pack! ~ This is really cool from Our Los Banos / Guest Hollow! It has a realistic looking Passport, and mini books for Prayer / Religion, Facts & Figures Book (cover and pages to create a mini info book), Country Flag, Highest Point, Menu, Popular Names, Traditional Clothing, Postcard & Pocket, Resources, People Stats, Temperature, and a Timeline!

~ The Choose-a-Country Lapbook at Homeschool Share gives you blank templates to use for any country you wish!! They also have several specific country lapbooks on their master list.

~ Free Country Lapbook from Homeschool Helper has blank templates for you to create a lapbook about any country you wish. Templates include: flag, fast facts, language, time zone, weather, capital, holidays, industry, famous people, history, attractions, wildlife, amazing facts, plants, religion, government, sports, timeline, imports & exports, currency, music, art, food, clothing, and current events.

~ Free lapbook templates, mini books, world flags, and wonderful color maps to use for lapbooks, notebooks, posters, and projects may be found at That Resource Place.
~ Country Study Outline Form from Lapbooking 101
~ These Country / Geography Mini Books for Arabian Peninsula, Burma, Canada, Ceylon (Modern day Sri Lanka), China, Eqypt, England (of the United Kingdom), France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States of America contain a picture, map, and writing prompts to create a memory of the countries.
~ Continent Mini Books for North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe (scroll down the page on the left) - created by Lynn of Eclectic Education.
~ Continent Cards ~ 4 cards representing each continent.
~ International Paper Money ~ Click on the continent and country to see samples of paper money from around the world at the "Geographical Directory Of World Paper Money".
~ Geography Materials 1 ~ Continent Cards / Coloring Sheets, Continent & Country Outline Maps, Puzzle Maps
~ Geography Materials 2 ~ Earth Layer Cards, Landform Picture & Definition Cards, State Facts Cards, State Abbreviation Cards, Animal Cards of each Continent, Country Flags (for posters or cut outs).

~ Jan Brett World Tour ~ Literature Based Unit Studies and Lapbooks based around favorite Jan Brett books!
* China- Daisy Comes Home
* Africa- Honey, Honey, Lion
* Costa Rica- The Umbrella
* Ukraine- The Mitten
* Canada- Three Snow Bears
* Antarctica- The Wild Christmas Reindeer
* Germany- Berlioz the Bear
* Texas (USA) - Armadillo Rodeo

~ Lapbook-Any-Person Templates - use these to study about any person from the countries you choose to study!

World Flags
~ World Flags Coloring Sheets for 23 countries are found at Lil' Fingers website.

Photographs & Graphics for Projects
~ eTravel Photos has beautiful free photos that may be used on websites and school projects!

Passports & Travel
~ World "Passport" for students!
~ Learn about passports and travel with these activities from Pat, the Passport Pal at the U.S. Department of State for Youth!
~ Passport" Cover Page for Book from abcTeach.

~ Find free outline maps & geography notebooking pages from Debra Fogelbach at Notebooking Pages! We have used and enjoyed several of her materials in our studies and found them to be fun and helpful! My children's favorite was the 50 State Study Notebooking Pages. It made it easy for us to study - travel the USA and created beautiful notebooks to display their work. She also has free state outline maps, basic geography pages, US geography, Europe geography, Middle East geography, continents & oceans, and solar system pages, timelines pages and charts, generic history notebook pages, pyramid and Washington, DC notebooking pages at her free history notebooking section. The missionary notebook pages she has would also be helpful in an around the world unit. Many other free resources as well as her very economical notebooking sets may be found at her homepage. Just click the image below!

~ Enchanted Learning has some really wonderful printouts, mini books, and activities for learning basic vocabulary in many languages such as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish!

~ Learning Languages Helps from Donnette Davis in Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, "Aussie", Icelandic, Bosnian Croatian and Serbian, Indonesian, Swedish, Dutch, and Faroese.

~ Webquests are so much fun!! The Geography Adventure webquest is based around the novel Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. It gives readers pages about the book, the author, maps, country information, a geography game, links, and other cool stuff! Check this one out!

~ This Around the World in 80 Days literature unit at Delightful Learning has suggestions for the book from a fellow homeschool mom. She shares some great ideas that she used with her children for the 37 chapters!
~ The Around the World in 80 Days Unit Study from Homeschooling Ideas has some great ideas, also!
~ Lesson Tutor has Around the World in 80 Days Comprehension Materials including vocabulary, writing assignments, questions, puzzles, quizzes, and a biographical sketch of Mr. Verne.
~ A free 5 page Around the World in 80 Days Educator's Guide labeled for grades 3 - 8 may be found at Walden Media.

~ Free Book Download of the story may be downloaded from Project Gutenberg!
~ Audio Books for Free has a downloadable version of Around the World in 80 Days!

~ Since the heros of the story use many forms of transportation, how about adding some Modes of Transportation Coloring Pages from Color Me Good.

~ This Biomes & Habitat website will be helpful to study the habitats that are within the countries that you study. It has sections for: Arctic, Desert, Chaparral or Scrub, Taiga = Coniferous Forests, Grassland, Tropical Rainforest, Pond, Ocean, Antarctic Tundra, Cave, City, Temperate Deciduous Forest, Savanna, Prairie, Freshwater Marsh, Swamp, Intertidal Zone, Coral Reef, Sunlit (Euphotic) Zone, and the Twilight (Disphotic) Zone!

~ Enchanted Learning has an amazing Botany and Paleobotany Dictionary, Plant Information, and Printable Worksheets and Books!

~ Plants: Literature Based Unit Studies, Information, & Lapbooks!
* The Trellis and the Seed
* Popcorn at the Palace
* The Gardener
* The Plant Sitter
* The Parable of the Lily
* A Day's Work
* Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Lapbook
* Holly Bloom's Garden
* Growing Vegetable Soup
* The Empty Pot
* Amanda Bennett's Gardens Lapbook
* The Carrot Seed
* Down, Down the Mountain Lapbook
* The Tale of Peter Rabbit
* Miss Rumphius
* The Story of George Washington Carver
* Library List

~ Botany Lapbook at Homeschool Share!

~ Please visit our Animal Unit at our homeschool blog, J.O.Y. Christian School! It was originally written with mammals in mind, but contains information for many groups of animals. Included are charts, notebook pages, lapbook mini books, games, pockets, worksheets, and links for classificaiton of animals, multi-curricular animal activities, mammals, and more! You will also find a link there to a huge collection of animal resources I researched and posted at Lapbook Lessons.

~ Enjoy this large Zoo Lapbook Unit Study created by Ami Brainerd at Homeschool Share!
~ 86+ fantastic free Animal Unit Studies & Lapbooks!

~ Enchanted Learning has very thorough animal units! (Be aware though that some of these contain evolutionary content.) ~ All About Birds ~ All About Butterflies ~ All About Mammals ~ All About Sharks ~ All About Whales ~ Zoom Dinosaurs

~ Animal Printouts - Animal pictures to label, color, fill-in, read, and more - search by alphabetical order, animal classification, continent, or habitat! We have used these worksheets frequently as lapbook foldables and as additions to notebook pages!

~ Research Wild Animals A - Z with Animal Planet! You may search out your favorite animals by category: mammals, invertebrates, birds, amphibians, reptiles, or fish.

~ Music from Around the World: Click on a continent and a country to learn about the instruments and styles of music that are popular in that location!

~ The World Music Section at National Geography has vidoes and information about popular music from around the globe!

~ Play the game Global Groovin' with Maya & Miguel from PBS! Learn about instruments and music from around the world.

~ Find lyrics for Children's Songs and Nursery Rhymes and other Music Articles from around the world at Mama Lisa's World Blog & Website!

~ Music of Other Cultures: Read about instruments and basic characteristics of music from Africa, Indonesia, India, Latin America, the Caribbean, the British Isles, China, and Japan.

~ The Cooking Lapbook Unit from Homeschool Share contains all kinds of fun mini books to go along with this beginner's cooking unit!

~ World Studies International Cooking Unit: This site has a fabulous free unit that we plan to use in our studies. The unit may be downloaded from the site or purchased as an ebook.

~ This Summer Olympics Lapbook Unit at Homeschool Share was written for the 2008 games, but could be adapted for future olympics or 'sports around the world'.

~ Soccer Lapbook Unit

~ Zoom Astronomy - Learn about our vast universe at this "Zoom School": Our Solar System, The Sun, The Planets, The Moon, Asteroids, Comets, Stars, Your Weight on Other Planets, Your Age on Other Planets, Astronomy Dictionary, Astronomers, Classroom Activities, Questions and Answers, Site Index, and Links.

~ Space Lapbook - templates for you to create a lapbook that is "out of this world" (sorry, couldn't resist)!

~ 14 Solar System Activitiy Books by Donnette Davis - "A Mini Activity book focusing on a specific area of the Solar System. The information contained in this book will cover an entire lesson, and so is suitable as teaching material. Ideal for homeschool."

~ Outer Space: Literature Based Unit Studies, Information, & Lapbooks!
* Maria's Comet
* Call Me Agnighito
* There's No Place Like Space
* The Sea of Tranquility
* Space Boy
* Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
* Outer Space Printables & Word Finds
* Astronomer Notebook Pages
* Library List

~ Globe Probe Geography Game: This super game may be found free at a wonderful Yahoo Group called Games4Learning! You have to join the group to gain access to it, but it is really worth it! It was created a few years ago by 10 moms around the world! Over 300 game cards about geographic locations are included and may be used as mini games or all together for a larger game. The files include: Instructions, Tokens, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceans, Wonders of the World, World Extremes, and Blank Cards.

~ Seterra Geography Game - From the website: "Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises! Examples of exercises: countries in Europe; American states; American state capitals; French cities; cities in Mexico; countries in Asia, etc, etc... Seterra is perfect for classroom use, for homeschooling or just for fun! Seterra runs in Danish, Dutch, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish. Each exercise has a high score list to keep track of each student's progress. A colorful and addictive way to teach your kids geography!"

~ Educational Freeware - Games from the same creator as Seterra!
Selingua: A language vocabulary tutor - German, Spanish, French and Swedish vocab!
Selingua Columns: Play a Tetris-style game and learn German, Spanish, French and Swedish!

~ Free Geography Bingo Cards to download and print out for a fun review game! ~ African Cities, African Countries, African Mountains, African Tribes, American Cities, American Mountain Ranges, Arctic Communities, Asian Cities, Asian Languages, Asian Mountains, Australian Cities, California Cities, Canadian Cities, Canadian Provinces-Territories And Their Capitals, Cities Along The Ohio River, Cities Of New Mexico, Cities in Alaska, Cities in France, Cities in Italy, Cities in Spain, Cities of South America, Commonwealth Of Nations, Countries, East Coast Ski Resorts, European Capitals, European Mountains, Geographical Features, Geography Vocabulary, Hawaiian Geography, Islands, Languages Of The World, Largest Cities In US, Major Airlines, Manhattan Neighborhoods, Midwestern Ski Resorts, Netherland Cities, New York Cities, Olympic Host Cities, Rocky Mountain Ski Resorts, San Diego Neighborhoods, San Francisco Neighborhoods, Scotland Cities, South American Countries And Capitals, Southern California Cities, States, States Abbreviations, States Capitals, The Caribbean, U.S. Canyons, UK Cities. US Landmarks, US National Parks, Virginia Cities, West Coast Ski Resorts, World Bays, World Landmarks, World Seas, Worlds Largest Countries By Population, Worlds Largest Countries By Total Area, and World's Most Populous Cities!

~ Free Culture Bingo Cards for download and printing ~ Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, and Mexican!

~ Games

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