Road Trip USA!

Hi All!

Thought I would share a little bit about our geography curriculum we are using this year. We are having LOADS of fun using a curriculum developed by a homeschool mom that is called "Road TripUSA." You can find it here if you are interested, and it is available either in a CD form or instant download: http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/u-s-geography I chose the instant download, which she charges only $18 for--well worth it for a year's worth of geography fun!

First we begin by printing off Travel Logs for each student. We needed a picture of the traveler to go inside the Travel Log, so I snapped this photo of my daughter. Can you tell she is excited?

Since they are set up to print out two on each page, we ended up with an "extra" Travel Log that we didn't need. Or so I thought. She insisted that "I" needed a Travel Log as well.

We took our pictures standing near the state we were each born in, which was my daughters idea and I thought it was pretty neat. We are using our LARGE pull down USA map that God gave me. Really. I had been drooling over them on E-Bay ($). I even looked them up brand new ($$$). But when I gave up the idea and just told God about how neat I thought a HUGE map would be, He sent me this one for FREE. Just my price. And a few more maps too, for good measure. Pressed down, overflowing. More blessings than I can receive.


The curriculum has you going through the states at a pace of two states a week. Sometimes we actually achieve two a week. Other times we do not, due to medical appointments, lessons, etc. But we will just keep moving through at our own pace, and someday we will finish.

Not ALL the states have a huge craft project, but it seems that around every other state does. That's often enough for me--keeps it fun, but not overwhelming. Here we were studying Delaware, and we are constructing a major bridge that is there. This project actually went together MUCH easier than I thought it was going to. And it was fun, besides!

As you can see, there is a GREAT need for this bridge in Delaware. So great, that the traffic did not even wait for the bridge to be completed before it started using the bridge!

Isn't it amazing what can be done with popsickle sticks and hot glue?

This bridge is so much fun to play with, even the cat plays with it!

When we were studying Maine, we made a lighthouse craft. This idea was actually suggested for a different state elsewhere in the curriculum, but we both thought Maine needed a lighthouse craft so we did it here. Who knows. We may make another one later on.

For Maryland, we each constructed a "Skipjack" boat. This is the state boat, and is quite famous we learned.

We each chose slightly different sail shapes. Had to include some yarn for rigging, of course, and I chose oars while she chose to put in seats.












Most important, they both passed the "ocean" test. Well, that is, until a typhoon came and swamped them both!

We are only a little ways into using this curriculum, but are enjoying is very much. So if you are looking for something fun and affordable for geography, check out "Road Trip USA!"

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All opinions expressed are completely my own. I did not receive this curriculum free. I purchased it myself to use in my own homeschool, and am enjoying it so much I wanted to share about our fun.