In “Mapping God’s World the Fun Way,” Episode, #187, Meredith Curtis shares out-of-the-box creative ways to map God’s amazing world. From using large outline maps and cooking/coloring in to map contests and mapping on the bathroom wall, who says mapping can’t be fun? Get back to basic mapping the world and have a blast!

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God’s Word tells us that the earth belongs to Him and all the people who live in it (Psalm 24:1) and Jesus told us to make disciples of all nations starting right where we are and moving across the entire world (Matthew 28:19 and Acts 1:8). Best of all, He loves all the people in the entire world so much that He sent Jesus so anyone who believes in Him will have everlasting life! (John 3:16). That’s exciting!

As a homeschool mom, I want to teach my children about the world God made and loves. If God calls them to go to Calcutta to share the Gospel, I want them to know where it is!

Start with blank outline maps of the entire world. Give children crayons or let them dictate names of the continents and the oceans.

Puzzles

Here are some of the Basic Landforms Children Should be able to Map by the time they are starting high school:

• Andes Mountains
  
• Amazon River
  
• Patagonian Desert
  
• Argentinean Pampas
  
• Amazon Rain Forest
  
• Nile River
  
• Congo River
  
• Sahara Desert
  
• Kalahari Desert
  
• Congo Rain Forest
  
• Ganges River
  
• Yangtze River
  
• Tigris River
  
• Euphrates River
  
• Jordan River
  
• Arabian Desert
  
• Gobi Desert
  
• Manchurian Plain
  
• Mongolian Plain
  
• Kazakh Steppe
  
• Himalaya Mountains
  
• Daintree River
  
• Great Victoria Desert
  
• Australian Savanna
  
• Daintree Rain Forest
  
• Great Dividing Range
  
• Mississippi River
  
• Great Basin Desert
  
• Canadian Prairies
  
• American Great Plains
  
• Rocky Mountains
  
• Sierra Nevada Mountains
  
• Danube River
  
• Rhine River
  
• Great Hungarian Plain
  
• Alps
  
• Caucasus Mountains
  
• Ring of Fire
  

Continue with Outline Maps – Filling in

Map Contests

Compare Political Maps from Different Time Periods – Overlay maps are great for this

Geography Cookbook & An Outline Map

Geographical Fiction

Seterra Online Quiz Game

Mapping the Bathroom Wall

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