Carschooling Geography: Charting a Course

Encourage your road scholars to learn to read maps by letting them plot your route to wherever you are going. Tell them that you need to get from one city (or state) to another. Then ask them to look on a map, find the departure and destination points, and pick a course of roads and [...]

Carschooling Social Sciences: Historical Marker Countdown

Carschoolers in Georgia decided to visit every historical marker in their county. Their mother reported that they spent an hour or two every day over  a two-week period traveling to different marker locations. The kids took close-up photographs of every marker so that they could read the text on the developed photograph. Then they put [...]

Carschooling Language Arts: Flash Card Letter Hunt

A carschooling dad uses alphabet flash cards to play a letter identification game with his kids. Shuffle the cards and put them in a stack. Each player then draws a card and has to find that letter on a road sign. Once players find their letter, they can draw another card. Play continues until all [...]