Some Good Geography and History Links

The girls have been working through their World Geography (using Winter Promise's Children Around the World as a framework). Right now they are studying the continent of Africa. Here is a cute game they played yesterday; they said they really liked this one, so I thought I would post the link here. Inturi Forest Adventure

**If you are working on US History (pioneers, Oregon Trail, etc) here is an EXCELLENT computer game that we used called The Oregon Trail. The kids played it over and over (they still do). Anyway, the Inturi game reminded them of The Oregon Trail game.

Another game that Bailey played while we have been studying Africa is Mancala. There are online versions of the game, and we also have the board game. It's pretty fun and takes very little skill to play, but lots of strategy to win! Online Mancala Game

Do you like lapbooks and notebook printables? Here are a few links that we used for Africa:
Elephant Lapbook
Lion Lapbook
The Great Kapok Tree Lapbook **For younger kids, but we still love this book
Masai and I Lapbook

Homeschool Share also has lapbooks for monkey, rhinoceros, and zebras and an entire Africa Resource page. There you can find links to some lapbooks resources to purchase as well (*they have grasslands, zebras, and Africa on the Hands of a Child website).

Printables:
African Animals (*note: Enchanted Learning has free printables, but they will have advertising on them, or you can join and get "clean" worksheets)
Early Readers African Animals Book
African Animals Coloring Pages
Jan Brett Animal Printables (*look under Noah's Ark for lots of beautiful pages of African animals)

Links:
Ancient African Stories (*reminds me of Aesop's Fables)

Don't forget about the wonderful FREE geography software Seterra. The kids "play" this several times a week and have memorized most of the countries of the world now (and lots of the capitals, too!).

Another fun Africa geography game here It's a drag and drop type game.