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Two Bit Geography

One carschooling family uses out-of-state license plates and the U.S. Mint’s introduction of individual state quarters to help them with an informal study of United States geography.  While riding in the car, they enjoy searching through pocket change for the new state quarters.  If they find one, they use the Official United States Mint 50 [...]

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 Geography: Road Navigators

Turn off the GPS and let your carschoolers take turns being the family navigator or map reader. As one carschooling mom said, “Even our 7-year-old has learned to keep track of where we are by reading the exit numbers on the freeways and finding how far across the state we traveled. All of my kids [...]