Welcome to Homeschool Geography Books and Curriculum at Lamp Post Homeschool Store.
Great resources for teaching geography at home--including many multi-level ones.
On this page you'll find links to the geography books and curriculum that we carry.
Multi-level Geography Curriculum
Galloping the Globe is an introduction to world geography for grades K to 3 from Geography Matters.
Cantering the Country is a three year unit study based on the geography of the USA from Geography Matters.
Trail Guide to US Geography is a multi-level teacher's manual for teaching United States Geography. It has lesson plans and a student guide. The Captain's Dog is the book that is used in part of this book.
Trail Guide to World Geography covers world geography in a multi-level format similar to the Trail Guide to US History. This book uses Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
Ultimate Geography and Timeline (Revised 2006) is a geography curriculum guide for K-12 as well as a great geography resource.
Beautiful Feet Geography is based on the Holling C. Holling books Tree in the Trail, Seabird, Paddle to the Sea, and Minn of the Mississippi. This is a wonderful geography curriculum for grades 3-7.
Around the World in 180 Days is a multi-level course that teaches geography and history on a continent-by-continent basis.
Geography Resources
WonderMaps Print customizable maps to integrate geography and map study skills with other studies.
Exploring the World Around You Explore the world through its seven biomes: desert, grassland, tropical rain forest, deciduous forest, taiga, tundra, and chaparral.
Uncle Josh’s Outline Maps has blank geography and historical maps. It is available in book form or on a CD-Rom.
"Textbook Approach" Geography Curriculum
This section includes the geography curriculum that follows the "textbook approach." These courses are typically one year courses except as noted. They are more structured than the curriculum listed above.
Bob Jones Geography is a textbook curriculum for grade 9. The student activities book is excellent.
MCP Maps, Charts, and Graphs are useful for a child who needs to know how to read and interpret data on maps, charts, or graphs. The series runs from grade 1 to grade 8.
The Geography, A Literature Approach guide utilizes the Holling classics Paddle-to-the-Sea, Tree in the Trail, Minn of the Mississippi, and
Seabird. This award-winning course covers three main geographic regions of the United States, as well as a basic introduction to world geography.
The guide enables the teacher to set up for a one year study in social science incorporating geography, map-making skills, research projects, history and science. Additional reading suggestions are included in the guide.
The Holling C. Holling books are beautifully written and illustrated. Save when you purchase these books for use with the Beautiful Feet Books Geography.
This Holling Books Bundle includes one each of the following:
Minn of the Mississippi 9780395273999
Paddle to the Sea 9780395292037
Seabird 9780395266816
Tree in the Trail 9780395545348
All of these are paperback.
hb-bundle
List $47.80
Sale Price $38.00
Minn of the Mississippi
By Holling Clancy Holling
Follow a turtle from the source of the Mississippi where it hatched to the Gulf of Mexico in Minn of the Mississippi, a Newbery Honor Book.
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780395273999
List $11.95
Sale Price $10.95
Paddle to the Sea
By Holling Clancy Holling
"A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean." From the back cover of Paddle to the Sea.
A Caldecott Honor Book
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780395292037
List $11.95
Sale Price $10.95
Seabird
By Holling Clancy Holling
In this Newbery Honor Book, a "carved ivory gull is the mascot for four generations of seafarers aboard a whaler, a clipper ship, a steamer, and an airplane." From the back cover of Seabird.
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780395266816
List $11.95
Sale Price $10.95
Tree in the Trail
By Holling Clancy Holling
"A cottonwood tree watched the pageant of history on the Santa Fe Trail for over two hundred years." From the back cover of Tree in the Trail
There is map work in this course. Though the publisher offers a very nice set of large blank maps printed on paper with an old fashioned look, we think a better long-term investment is one of the following map products. You can use either of these for other geography and world or US map studies. You make the copies you need on your computer printer in the quantities you need for your family.
Suggestion: If you are a really into making maps, then purchase some parchment looking paper at your local office supply store and use it to make your homeschool maps.
WonderMaps
By Bright Ideas Press
With WonderMaps, you can use your computer and printer to print all sorts of maps. There are over 350 different maps that you can customize for integrating geography and map study skills with other studies such as history, literature, science or Bible.
We've included an informative WonderMaps Tutorial by Tyler Hogan of Bright Ideas Press, the publisher.
Not required in the Beautiful Feet Geography Study but it is recommended as a study of marine life.
Pagoo is a delightful and in-depth story of the life and habitat of a hermit crab from its perspective. The author and his illustrators did their homework.
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780395539644
List $11.95
Sale Price $10.95
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