Summer Geography Crash Course

{our bulletin board ready to go!}

Summer is the perfect time to do a 3 month “crash course” in U.S. Geography. We added in a few weeks of TN state history/geography as well!! I’m really excited about this time dedicated to geography and have found some fun resources to share with you!! (please let me know of any great resources in the comments!!)

• My First Book About Tennessee (The Tennessee Experience)
• The Terrific Tennessee Coloring Book (The Tennessee Experience)
• United States Coloring Book
• V is for Volunteer: A Tennessee Alphabet (Discover America State By State. Alphabet Series)
• National Geographic Our Fifty States
• How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A

• How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the USA — unit and lapbook!! (we are going to “kick off” our summer of geography fun with this book and unit!!)
• Geography resources from Homeschool Share!
• USA geography resources from Enchanted Learning
• V is for Volunteer – teacher guide (scroll down to V is For Volunteer and click on teacher guide)  to go with book – this has some really great ideas for a Tennessee study, we are planning to spend about 2 weeks on Tennessee!
• this blog post has lots of great ideas also!!
• Jimmie’s squidoo page for the 50 states
• Lady Liberty Painting Art Project 
• Tissue Paper flags 
• Tons of red, white and blue TREATS/recipes

• learn national anthem
• review the Pledge of Allegiance
• look at pictures of landmarks around our country
• learn the capitals of each state
• play Stack the States some more! (the kids love this, it is an app for i-phones/pads)
• learn state abbreviations

Do you have any great and fun ideas to share concerning USA Geography?? Please share in the comments below!! 🙂