Seven Amazing Continents - Travel Dreams Geography - The Thinking Tree: World Geography & Social Studies The Creative Research Handbook for Library & Internet Based Learning Paperback – June 8, 2017

This, like most of The Thinking Tree books is a researched based book which requires you provide internet or other books to be able to fill out the worksheets in this book. I bought this book for our homeschool history/geography studies for the next school year. What I like about this book is that not only are you doing book research you are coloring, challenging the student to answer questions about the continents, and finding the beauty of the world. This book can be shared with our 4 homeschoolers which means we save money (read more about it at the end of the review).Research pages for each continent include:1. What do you know about it?2. A World Wonder Searches - You research the accompanying picture's photo and try to find it online to write about the "wonder" or your student finds another beautiful place in that continent - Name it, the country it is in, 5 facts, and illustrating it themselves. There are a different number of illustrations to find in the continent.3. Animal Pages - List 10 Animals and Draw Them4. Countries Pages - Write the names of the countries of Africa and write the corresponding number on the accompanying map on the subsequent page.5. Travel Dreams Pages - Where would you like to go? Why do you want to go there? What is the climate like? A unique fact. Illustrate the place you want to go.6. Movie Time - Watch a movie documentary about the country. Rate it and draw your favorite scene.7. Drawing Time - Copy an illustration from one of your books.8. Reading Time - Write about the books you are reading about this continent.9. Story Writing Time - Write a creative story that occurs in your continent.10. Music of the World - Listen to traditional music and describe the instruments used and songs you listened to.11. Favorites Page - Write in your favorite things about the continent.It is very thorough and can be used with one student over an extended amount of time. Or it can be used in a group of students, especially with teaching multi-level homeschooling by dividing the pages between your various children and watching the movies, sharing books, etc. This book was created so that you can make multiple copies for only the children in your household which is a win-win if you're wanting to save money and do this all together.

We are using this in our social studies unit learning about the continents and countries of the world. This is nice and large for all of us to sit around a see each page closely. Great details and colors as well! Score for us!

We love it for homeschool! My kids are sixth grade , fourth, first, preschool, and we all can do this together as a group with books, video, and Internet! It's what you make it and I love that! There are no strict rules and it really makes you explore! I'd say good for all ages. May seem childish for highschool, but again, it's however deep or hard you make it by what you research!

This is a beautiful workbook which I loved paging through. The sketches made me want to travel and paint! The activities are the same review most people do while studying the world (country names, locations, animals, music, book reports, etc). It's important to note these are only fill in the blank pages to use with your own resources, they don't do any of the teaching for you. Like the cover said, it's a tool to correspond with research. I originally purchased this with hopes of using a handful of them for my Kindergarten and 2nd grader. Unfortunately I just don't think they are quite right for this age level. The suggested guide says 9+ and I agree, that makes better sense. I'll keep it in mind for the future. One star deducted because the pages are not serrated to rip out. For a work book like this that is a huge downside. You can't easily copy and share the pages, and this is a pretty high pricepoint to buy each child their own book.

Have several books from the thinking tree and this one is my absolute favorite! There’s a chapter for each continent with awesome research assignment on the countries, the animals, the arts…etc. beautiful 😍

Utterly pointless waste of time and money. Teaches basically nothing. It’s nothing more than a guided journal you have to do all the work and research for. It’s basically just a glorified coloring book combined with a blank large journal. Wish we could return it!

We are using this book plus the travel dreams book to help guide us in our world geography studies this year. There is a section for each continent, and wonderful prompts for you to use in your research. Beautiful drawings throughout the book. It prompts you to find the continent on the map, study the natural wonders on that continent, the animals, listing the countries and then labeling them on the map, creating your own drawings and watching a movie about that continent. And so much more!

I am using these for children ages 9-17 and it works well all together since the writing is so open ended. Very fun way to study the world.