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    Thanks for more ideas! I should've known DS would be s geography nut when he became obsessed with in dash GPS' at 2. We didn't have one, but my sister and BF never heard the end if it when he was in the car smile

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    hi ,
    can anyone suggest books for preparation for the geography bee
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    I'm bumping this because I'd love any more suggestion on this fot my geo-obsessed 5yo. We already have Scrambled States and he is sort of done with US states and capitals.

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    Haven't tried this. Click on the sample. http://www.ellenjmchenrydownloads.com/Mapping-the-World-with-Art-Hard-Copy-CD-MPHC.htm

    I don't have this one either, but it looks pretty too:
    barefoot books world atlas

    The one I do have is not geography, it's world history. I'm afterschooling from the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History. Are you more into political maps, like in history, or geographical (topicographical?) maps? just because that context could help you find more maps to study.



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    My DD8 has enjoyed playing with Google Earth/Maps from time to time for the last 5 years.

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    My son is also obsessed with geography. He loves "How the states got their shapes" which is a History channel show based on a book by the same name.

    Another book he loves is "Lost States" about proposed states that never came into being.

    We also have board games called GeoDice and 10 Days in Europe which are fun and challenging.


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    Stack the states is awesome. Also puzzles

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    We don't have a smartphone or Ipad--prob should have mentioned that. I will look at GeoDice and 10 Days in Europe. His interest is basically where countries are, capitals, and to some extent trivia. US geography is pretty much over, in that he knows all states/capitals backwards and forwards and is not interested in going more detailed than that.

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    Here is what I did, I notcied when our 5 year old was on the pot he would study eitehr a six flags brochure map or a camping camp site brouchure map, so I got a poster of the US and posted it on the wall in teh bathroom. After about a week he had memorized every state and captail city, so I put up a world map. After he had memorized the couintries I asked him about the oceans and seas, and then gulfs, straights and he learned all of them. Since he was into leggos and I math I though he might be interetsed in fining out about chemistry, same thing! I put a periodic table up in teh batchroom and he he memorized every element, series, atomic number and I had to get a Chemistry grad student from the nearest university to answer his questions because they were over my head. Hope this helps

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    How about some coffee table books that show aerial pictures of the earth, its features, etc.? We do a lot of browsing in our house...

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