United States of America

Geography Kids

Travel the World Without Ever Leaving the Classroom!

Here’s a list of the resources we used, videos we watched, and activities we did in our study of the USA.

Note: I don’t feel comfortable letting my children watch movies directly on the internet, so I always download the content first, so they can watch everything offline. If you want to do this, too, I would highly recommend using HitPaw Video Converter. That’s what I use. It’s not free, but it works great. That’s what I use to download content from YouTube, so that we can watch all the content offline and not have to worry about what might “pop up” when my kids are watching the videos.

Travel Book Pages

Every time we begin our “travels” to a new country, we always do the same 5 things:

1) Find the flag sticker for the country we are going to travel to, and stick it in our Pretend Passports.

2) Set up a pretend airplane and sing our “All Around the World” song as we pretend to fly to our destination.

3) Assemble our first travel book page, with the name of the country, the flag, country outline, and the pictures of people dressed in traditional costume.

>> USA Travel Page 01 - Country Profile Page

4) Have a fun little country themed scavenger hunt! (featured below)

5) Assemble our second travel book page. Although, this page we usually do on our LAST day of learning about the country, since the kids like to pretend that they took all these pictures while they were visiting the country, so this second page is a place for them to “scrapbook” their memories of what they did on their adventure.

>> USA Travel Page 02 - Scrapbook Page

United States Scavenger Hunt

United States Scavenger Hunt. We always like to do a scavenger hunt when learning about a new country. This is the scavenger hunt we put together for France.

Hogie Goes to New York (Hogie the Globehopper)

Hogie Goes to New York. New York is a big place, with lots of things to see and do. Luckily for Hogie he makes friends with Marie who shows them around. And luckily for Marie she makes friends with the gang who might just be able to help her figure out an angle for her school project.

Hogie Goes to Texas (Hogie the Globehopper)

Hogie Goes to Texas. Hogie has lots of preconceived notions of what the Wild West should look like, so when they meet Mandy on her modern day ranch, they are a bit surprised to find out that things are not how they imagined.

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Exploring New York | Dinosaurs & Ice Skating Fun (Travel Kids)

Exploring New York | Dinosaurs & Ice Skating Fun. In the giant city of New York, Rosie and Julian visit the Natural History Museum to see gigantic dinosaurs and skate in Central Park.

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