Review: Review: Let's Go Geography

When it comes to homeschooling, geography is something I've blogged a lot about. My kids love studying geography. It's a very popular activity in our family as both of my boys participated in a geography bee last year, and Isaac has taught himself the location and flag of every country in the world. (He's currently working on capitals.) For this reason, you can understand why I was so excited to review this homeschool geography curriculum from Let's Go Geography. 

The concept behind this program is very simple. You purchase one of three plans. You can buy a program for the semester ($14.99), the year ($21.99) or make two payments of $12.99 each.

There are 30 countries every year set up to run on a three-year curriculum plan. Our world is so interconnected. And yet despite the fact that this is the case, most kids do not know where places are on a map. This needs to change! And Let's Go Geography is one way to get that done. They pride themselves on not just touching the surface of geography which many programs for kids do. Instead, this digs deep into various countries.

Whichever financial option fits your family best, the results are the same. You get one or two semesters with full access to all the lessons. You get a reminder email each week telling you which country you will be exploring for that lesson/week. Let's Go Geography takes your K-4th grader on a tour of that country with hands-on-activities, crafts, coloring, studying, etc.

Here is a sample of the three year breakdown in the curriculum:

Here is a video that discusses what you can find on this very reasonably priced program:

There is coloring, cutting, gluing, music, watching videos, writing and much more. I used this program with all four of my children (ages 4, 6, 8 and 9). My four-year-old did some of the coloring and "pretended" to be studying with her big siblings. However, my older three totally followed and really enjoyed this program. Usually someone complains when we do a program at our house. But this one did not receive any  complaints. And in fact, they were often asking if we could do it on that particular day.

Here are some personal photos of our experience with this product:

Each of my kids created their own "My Travel Journal" for use as we moved from country to country.

The kids loved coloring these American maps. (Although we realized we have a shortage of good reds in our home.)

Abigail loved all the coloring assignments. She always took them seriously and did a fantastic job on this part of the unit.

Basically, each unit required us to open up an email, click on the link, and zip around that particular PDF document. You can pick and choose what you would like to do or not like to do. There are videos you can watch and things you can color and maps to print out and online links to navigate to. You can do some or all of what is listed for a particular country.

If you were doing every single thing in a unit, my guess is that there would be about 2-4 hours worth of work in that unit. However, you could zip through a country in about an hour if you wanted to do it more on a surface level.

The only negative thing I can note was simply a difficulty in clicking and then returning to the original document. Sometimes after you opened a document and then went back, you'd end up back at the beginning of your document. However, I learned that if I could simply open the link in a new window, this problem was eliminated.

You can find more information on this fun homeschool geography curriculum for kids by visiting Let's Go Geography on Facebook and Pinterest.