Friday, July 28, 2017

Challenge A Geography Helps

Drawing the world can be a daunting task. This part of Challenge A intimidated my daughter the most. Most of the time I had to encourage her just to get started and that the map didn't need to be perfect. My goal was that she learn the countries and if drawing skills were improved then that was icing on the cake. As the year went on I found some videos that helped her draw the countries. I will list them below

Canada- The Challenge tutor covered this one in class.
U.S- We purchased the U.S. portion from this website. My daughter thought it was a but childish, but I had to encourage her that she could make it more detailed if she wanted. Be careful that you don't squish out the eastern United States. I folded my paper in half (and also used a large piece of paper) so that I made sure that there was line to keep North Dakota and Texas to the left of it. This gave room for the eastern half.
Central America- The Challenge tutor covered this one in class. My daughter looked at maps to draw the countries
South America- My daughter looked at maps to draw the countries
Europe- We used this video. There is no spoken words. The artist first walked her through several simple shapes. This seemed classical to me. It helped her remember how to draw them later.
Asia- She used this video. The same artist as previously.
Africa- This video is the same man as before.
Australia- I helped her form a plan for this country. Australia has many horizontal and vertical lines making it easy. Your scholar should have so much experience by now, Australia will not be difficult.
Oceania- My daughter looked at the map and did this one all by herself.