It’s Thursday, tomorrow I face about a dozen older homeschoolers, whose families have come to co-op when they could be doing lots of other things. And while I’ve been thinking and studying this week, I have not yet figured out my lesson for tomorrow.
I do have a theme though: since geography is a subject spread through history, military strategy, geology, travel, social studies, anthropology, economics…I’m not sure how to teach it by itself. But I do know that my students will need an understanding of the various reference books and sources. So if I highlight different sources, and give teasers for good books (Small Woman, The People Time Forgot, Hudson Taylor’s autobiography, Around the world in 100 years, Longitude…) perhaps the kids will investigate them further later on, there is nothing to make kids want to read like knowing the beginning of a book.
So for tomorrow…a game to use the atlas more, introduce missionary magazines as a source…um, I’m still thinking….