Geography Lessons
Create rich and meaningful geography lessons through living books, creative approaches, maps, documentaries, and outdoor exploration.
If you’ve wanted geography to feel more engaging than maps and worksheets, these guides were created for you.
Instead of memorizing place names, students learn about countries, cultures, landscapes, and how people live around the world through the best books, documentaries, podcasts, audio books, literature and art.
These guides provide carefully curated resources, practical ideas, and innovative approaches to help you easily create rich and engaging geography lessons for students of all ages.
They are designed to inspire ideas, simplify planning and give clear guidance to create a living geography education in your homeschool.
Living geography made simple
Start here with Geography Lessons for a living education
A practical and inspiring guide to creating living geography lessons for grades K–12.
This guide is filled with carefully selected books, resources, and creative approaches that help you teach rich and engaging geography lessons without needing a boxed curriculum. Inside you’ll find:
A curated selection of living geography books arranged by theme
Podcasts, apps and websites
Mapmaking and note booking ideas
How to teach geography through art, literature and hands-on projects
PRINTED GUIDE, 80 pages, full color
Create lively and engaging geography lessons for grades K-12 with this practical and easy-to-follow guide. Packed with innovative ideas, practical teaching methods and top picks for books, podcasts, audio books, websites and apps.
Create a Rich and Joyful Living Education: Learn how to easily create lessons that foster delight in the study of geography and cultivate deep engagement, creative expression, critical thinking and an expansive knowledge of the world.
Illustrated Geography Books: See inside and read reviews of 150 illustrated and literature-rich books, hand-picked for thoughtful, well-written and engaging content with beautiful illustrations. Arranged by theme and referenced by grade level so you can quickly and easily find what you need.
Enjoy a Handbook of Quality Resources: Discover over 60 recommendations for geography podcasts, audio books, apps and websites which will inspire your students.
Creative Approaches: Find out how you can create hand-drawn maps, keep illustrated notebooking pages and include hands-on projects as part of your geography studies.
Unique Ideas: Explore how geography can be enjoyed through storybooks, educational audio books and artworks to create rich and dynamic approach.
Podcasts, Apps & Websites: Discover how to utilize podcasts, apps & websites, and use National Geographic for education.
Dynamic Approaches to Mapwork: Learn about studying geography with topographic maps, illustrated atlases and globes, as well as using digital maps, and map-based apps with interactive features.
How to Use this Guide: Use this guide to supplement your current curriculum, design your own, or follow a Curator curriculum using our weekly lesson plan and picking books by grade level.
Grab a Cup of Coffee… We wanted to make a guide that was tangible, beautiful and luxurious, that you could hold in your hands, enjoy reading with a cup of coffee, and find endless inspiring ideas to help you and your students. You’ll receive an 80-page, full color, perfect-bound guide that will be shipped directly to you. There is also a digital download of this guide available for purchase if you would prefer (see listing under DIGITAL GUIDES)
An Enriching Education for Everyone… this guide is designed for teachers in public and private schools, homeschool families and co-ops, for grades K-12. Written to include faith-based as well as secular schools and families.
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Enrich your Geography Lessons with documentaries
Bring geography lessons to life with a curated collection of the best geography and earth science documentaries for students.
This guide helps you easily incorporate high-quality documentaries into your geography studies, with films organized by region, theme, and subject so you can quickly find what you need.
• Curated documentary lists
• Organized by region and theme
• Streaming and free options
PRINTED GUIDE, 64 pages, full color
Your ultimate guide to geography and earth science documentaries for grades K-12. Expertly curated for quality educational content and featuring excellent cinematography and storytelling, this is the finest selection of modern documentaries, easily available by streaming service, and listed by theme and world region.
There's also useful chapters on creating a family culture with documentaries, how to study geography with documentaries, and using documentaries effectively in your homeschool or classroom.
This guide was written for families and schools wanting to use excellent documentaries in their education and to enjoy as a family and needing a quick reference guide.
Why you’re going to love this guide…when you are studying geography, world cultures or earth science, you’ll have everything you need to supplement your lessons in one handy volume. You’ll never have to search for hours again – just refer to the guide and within minutes you’ll have what you need. There's even a whole section with the best geography documentaries available for free on YouTube.
What are the details? This is a 64-page, full color, printed guide that will be shipped to your home! It’s perfect-bound on high quality paper. We wanted to make something high quality and durable, that you could hold in your hands, find what you need with ease, and refer to again and again. There is also a digital download of this guide available for purchase if you would prefer (see listing under DIGITAL GUIDES)
An enriching education for everyone… this guide is designed for families, teachers in public and private schools, homeschool families and co-ops.
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INSIDE THE CURATOR JOURNAL
Explore Geography Articles from the Curator Journal
Alongside the Geography guide, I regularly write about geography education in the Curator Journal, sharing ideas, teaching approaches, book recommendations, and lesson inspiration.
These articles explore different ways to make geography come alive for students through stories, books, documentaries, field trips, and creative projects.
You can explore the geography articles below for additional ideas and inspiration to accompany your geography studies.
Learning Geography in Nature — a Field Trip Guide
Your guide for enriching geography field trips at local parks, in urban environments and on countryside walks.
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Creative Approaches for Geography Lessons
Discover five ways you can incorporate creativity into your geography lessons for delightful and engaged learning.
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3 Wonderful Geography Documentaries to Watch This Summer
A short list of excellent geography documentaries to enjoy as a family this summer.
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How to Use Illustrated Books in Your Geography Lessons
Learn how illustrated books can awaken children’s imagination and enrich geography lessons.
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Geography Through Storytelling
Stories can be a wonderful way to deeply engage students’ hearts and minds while teaching geographic themes and concepts.
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How to Use Living Books to Teach Geography
Move beyond dull geography lessons and learn how to create rich and engaging lessons using living books.
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