Tag: North America
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50 State Study: Ohio lesson
Hi, Future Ticia 2026 here, and I’m updating and basically rewriting our Ohio unit to make this more in line with our modern geography lessons. This was part of our United States Geography back when we were studying through the United States with a homegrown co-op studying the states as they entered the Union, and…
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Washington state unit
When I was in third grade, my school got Weekly Reader newspapers. They were small papers with a theme, one week the theme was Mount Saint Helens and the great volcanic eruption. Somehow, in my head, Mount Saint Helens had just erupted. In reality, Mount Saint Helens erupted several years earlier, and they were reporting…
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New Jersey state study
Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, well once I reschedule this to now, this will be Present Ticia 2025, but I wrote this in 2011 back during our FIRST New Jersey Unit. This was back during our first foray into geography lessons and our United States Geography unit. Then again, as the kids were in high…
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West Virginia Unit
As I write these posts I try to find pictures that capture the idea of the state. There is no specific “this location says West Virginia,” instead I think of rolling mountains covered in trees, and I start hearing a sort of vague blue grass song in my head that I don’t even really know…
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Iowa Unit
Through the years we’ve tried many variations on our geography lesson and when the kids were little we did an Iowa Unit with the kids because their aunt was moving to Iowa, and then we did a slightly more formal version when we studied United States Geography as the states entered the union. Then when…