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来源Geography is Fun!
译者samantha2011
Ok, so I was a geography minor in college. Geography education, even. One of my biggest fears in homeschooling was going overboard on my best (and favorite) topics. I kept telling myself that I would back off before forcing the kids to learn calculus before cursive and know the capitals of Europe before their address. (I was a math ed major…)
我在大学辅修地理，准确地说是地理教育。在进行住家教育的过程中,我最担心的就是自己太过热衷于所擅长和喜爱的科目。我一直告诫自己不要在孩子们还没学好写字之前就急于强迫他们学习算术，在他们还没弄清楚自己家地址之前就急于教他们欧洲国家的首都是什么。（我主修数学教育...）
I'd like to think we have somewhat succeeded. We've kept Geography fun. What we've done is kept it limited to what the kids can relate to. When they are little, geography involves their world, the world they know. We draw maps of the house. We go from room to room on a big exploration. We draw treasure maps of the backyard and follow them. This is their world and this is what means something to them.
我想我们算是成功了。我们让地理始终趣味盎然，我们所做的就是把它限定在和孩子们密切相关的事物上。当他们小的时候，地理涉及的是他们所熟悉的世界。我们为房子画地图，我们从一个房间到另一个房间进行一次大探险。我们画后院的藏宝图并依照藏宝图寻宝。这些就是他们的世界，也是他们感兴趣的事物。
A few years down the road they learn that they are part of a bigger community. We walk around the neighborhood. We learn street names and addresses. We draw maps to the park, the grocery store, and church. We learn that we live in a state and a city. They are fascinated by the big maps we have on the wall and want to know what it means. Our 4 year old is on a state kick. He has the state of Missouri figured out. He can pick it out on a map of the United States, even if we change the color or puzzle size on him. I can't resist the fun US and world puzzles when it comes to learning. You find where New Jersey goes often enough you start learning where it is. One of my learning philosophies is that you surround your family with learning materials of all sorts, and use them yourself, your kids will follow your example and love to learn.
随着孩子们一天天长大，他们会发现自己生活在一个更大的社区中。我们在家附近散步，我们学习街道的名字和地址。我们画去公园，杂货店和教堂的地图。我们学习了解我们生活在一个州和一个城市中。孩子们对墙上的大地图很着迷，非常想知道那上面画的是什么。我们家4岁的孩子对美国的州很着迷，他可以指出密苏里州。即便我们更换颜色和尺寸，他依然能从一张美国地图中找出密苏里州。美国和世界地图拼图在学习过程中带给我们的乐趣让我无法忘怀。常常当你找寻拼图上新泽西州该放哪里的时候你已经学习了它的地理位置。我的一条学习理念就是在你的家中准备各种各样的学习用品和材料，你自己经常使用它们，你的孩子们会受你影响也爱上学习。
We've moved a lot. Our extended family is spread across the country. When we take trips to visit family or on one of our moves, we've printed up maps and traced our route for the kids. (this also introduces scale in a BIG way when it takes hours to cross one little stretch of road on the paper…) Our kids have been born in different states and cities, so they want to see on a map where they were born. We look for where grandparents, uncles and aunts, and friends live. Not too long ago we had friends move to New Zealand. This led to a renewed interest in the whole world! It really means something when someone the kids know goes there.
我们搬了很多次家。我们大家庭的家庭成员生活在全国各地。当我们去拜访亲属或搬去一个新的地方，我们会为孩子们把地图打印出来，并按着地图前行。（这也让孩子们了解了标度，走过纸上标注的一小段路往往要花费我们几个小时的时间...）我们的孩子出生在不同的州，不同的城市，也因为这样他们想从地图上看看他们的出生地。我们在地图上查找哪里是祖父母，叔叔阿姨和朋友们居住的地方。不久前我们有朋友搬去新西兰生活，这再一次激起了孩子们对世界地理的兴趣。当有认识的人去了一个地方，对于那里，孩子们就会格外感兴趣。
To a lesser extent, the characters in books, movies, and shows also bring the world a little closer to home as they look up where things happened (or where they were filmed.) Even with fantasy stories that happen far away or in an imaginary place, these stories include maps that also need a little bit of knowledge about geography.
再远一些，书本、电影和演出中的人物也会将世界拉近我们的生活，孩子们会找寻故事是在哪里发生的（或电影是在哪里拍摄的。）即便是发生在很远或者根本就是虚构出来的地方的科幻故事，也需要一些地理知识帮助我们理解这些故事以及故事中涉及到的地图。
They get a bit older and start paying attention to history. We look up where things happened and how they relate to today. We see political and physical features on the maps and how boundaries might form between peoples. This brings us into current events. They start paying attention to what is happening in the world today and how it affects them, and the world gets a little smaller. Japan. New Zealand. Chile. Libya. Haiti. And of course, much, much more.
孩子们又长大了几岁，他们开始对历史产生兴趣。我们找寻事件是在哪里发生的，它们对今天又产生了怎样的影响。我们从地图上观察政治划分和地形走向的不同特征，了解这些边界是如何形成的。这也把我们带入当前的事件中。孩子们开始留意现在世界上正在发生些什么事情，这些事情对他们又有哪些影响。世界正变得越来越小，日本、新西兰、智利、 利比亚、海地，当然还有很多很多。
Without shoving geography down my kids' throats, we've somehow kept it interesting and fun (I think!) and have kids that were even confident enough in their geography skills to make it to the second round of our local Geography Bee. I think we're meeting our goals and having fun while doing it, which is one of the best things about learning together.
没有填鸭式的硬塞，我们让地理保持着那份生动与活泼。孩子们对自己的地理知识和技能满怀信心，他们还进入了当地地理知识大赛的第二轮比赛。我想我们达到了我们的目的，最棒的是在这个过程中我们一起收获了快乐。
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