Category: geography

  • Peru Unit

    Peru Unit

    I was looking for old posts to share and found a chicken soup post to share, I’m reading it and realized it was from back when I was doing Around the World in 12 Dishes, and it was a Peru dish. It was an interesting flash from the past. It was also probably not a…

  • Ghana Unit

    Ghana Unit

    I always try to find a picture from each country that I write about. This can be challenging because I want to find something that represents that country and frequently what we think of is cultural dress, but I don’t want to picture the people, and I don’t want to fall into stereotypes. I ran…

  • Germany Unit

    Germany Unit

    We studied Germany a couple of different times in our geography lessons. We studied it first when the kids were little as part of a Christmas Around the World Unit. Then we made a delicious meal, and finally we did a mad dash through Europe in high school. Now in 2025, years after we completed…

  • China Unit

    China Unit

    Geography studies are a great way for your kids to learn about different countries, and with Chinese New Year being so recent a bunch of us have been looking for China activities for elementary kids.  What amazes me is how many amazing things there are to create a great China Unit for a geography lesson.…

  • Comoros Unit

    Comoros Unit

    Y’all I have sat here with this post half-written for like 2 years because I apparently forgot to make the recipe for Comoros. It needed a very specific ingredient and I bought the wrong thing, which means it was not going to work, so I wrote up everything else and it has sat here forever.…