[mware]

I teach one section of Geography (7th grade) The first part of the year I focus on Physical Geography and the latter part of the year is set aside for Cultural Geography.

I have the kids complete a project on the individual state of our country. They draw flags of their states along with researching and reporting on historic aspects of their state. As a culminating activity I allow the kids to make a cookie in the shape of their state.. LOL you should see the kids asking for Texas, Alaska, and California.

After the cafeteria ladies bake the cookies for us, I allow the kids to decorate the state by adding chocolate chip cookies to represent mountains, blue icing to represent rivers and lakes , and coconut flakes to show snow.

The yummy way to learn geography.

[dandelion]

mmmmmmm

teaching by cookery! I love it!

I used to make soup in my classroom as a lesson to go with reading "Stone Soup" (a children's book) until my principal decided it was "not appropriate". Never mind that it taught fractions, measurement, and introduced children to healthful foods - it wasn't in the "curriculum" so suddenly we couldn't do it.

It was in *my* curriculum for years. But it wasn't in the new "curriculum" the school district bought for a million dollars from the superintendent's friend, so I couldn't teach it any more...

It was some darn good soup.

[grellis]

I'm happy to read that geography is still offered to kids! Sounds as though you're doing a great job keeping the students interested.