Map Trek

I just found this awesome resource on Currclick. Its called Map Trek and its make by Knowledge Quest.

 I absolutely love geography.  This year, as always, my kids are doing a seperate geography course to learn more about geography and I sprinkle it into their history lessons also.  Map Trek takes all the work of mixing it into your lesson plans.  I love that you can purchase each unit or together in a bundle.  If I'd realized how awesome it was, I would have done the bundle. 

Each topic has three lesson plans.  One for grades 1-4, 5-8, and 9-12.  And the best part is that all the answers are located conveniently on the teacher's page.  Sometimes with TL's program now, we have to really dig and although I don't mind the digging, it would be nice to be able to verify the answers.

The teacher's map is colored and has all the answers for you.  The black and white map is for the student to complete with the lesson plans that are given for the topic that your working on.  I purchased the New World book.  Here are all the topics that are covered:

World Map (Landforms)

Elizabethan London

James Towne

African Exploitation

Renaissance Italy

North America (map 1)

North America (map 2)

Native American Tribal Groups

Plymouth Colony

Thirty Years' War

Australia Discovered

King Philip's War

Ming/Qing Dynasties of China

The Mughal Empire

The Original 13 Colonies

The Iroquois League

Puritan England

Restoration Colonies

The Kingdome of Prussia

New England Colonies

The Middle Colonies

The Southern colonies

The Seven Years' War

The Explorations of Daniel Boone

Early Battles of the Revolutionary War

The American Revolution

The Expansion of Russia

The French Revolution

Napoleonic Wars

Lewis & Clark Expedition

Independence for Latin America

European Composers

European Inventors

England - Industrial Revolution

War of 1812

Growth of the USA (map 1)

The Growth of Australia

Growth of the USA (map 2)

Trails of Expansion in the USA

Goldrush in California

Westward Expansion/Mexican War

The Pony Express/Telegraph Lines

European Revolutions of 1848

I can honestly say that I never considered doing a map for Daniel Boone.  Or how about the Pony Express and the Telegraph lines?  I can't wait to dig deeper into this set.  

And did I mention the curriculum integration guides?   The author has taken some of the popular history programs such as Story of the World, Ambleside, and Truthquest and labeled which maps are to be used with each lesson.  What a treasure!

If you sign up for their newsletter, you can download a free Map Trek sampler.

Enjoy!