Module 2: two questions

Geography is one of our favorite subjects so I research as much as possible before the start of a year.  These websites have great insight into countries and we use them as supplements to our reading unless the country is one where I found little info on that I liked.  There is often enough information to use these sites alone, many with living geography as their style.  These are not geography games, but prayer websites, info for children, etc.  

http://www.kidport.com/RefLIb/WorldGeography/WorldGeoIndex.htm

http://www.travelforkids.com/main.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/italy.html#

http://www.operationworld.org/  This is a favorite, it often includes prayer videos by native people and beautiful video images.

http://www.kidsofcourage.com/

http://www.rainbowkids.com/HTMLFiles.aspx?page=KidsActivities

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/

What I usually do when planning, is visit all these sites once I know which countries we are looking at for the year and see what I can use.  There are days I use only these sites and find that for their ages (9yo, 6yo, 4yo) there is enough information.  We also color a page of the country flag and add crafts or recipes from books or other resources.  

Love this, thanks Igeurink for posting!