The Missing Foundation of Geographic Fluency

With traditional methods, most students will never build an internal globe that accurately reflects the relative locations, sizes, and shapes of world countries, and how they all fit together. Often, students have never even heard of many countries, and after completing assignments, retain little meaningful knowledge about them.

  • SPATIAL ISSUE

    Without a foundational framework, students cannot accurately determine a country's place relative to other countries within world regions and hemispheres, nor relative to earth's physical features and climate.

  • CAUSE-AND-EFFECT ISSUE

    Without command of their own internal globe, students cannot easily see how a country's boundaries, size and location, influence trade relations, migration, conflicts, culture, economics, and more.

  • COGNITIVE ISSUE

    Without a fundamental context, with no accurate mental representation of the world, students cannot think from a "big picture" perspective. Instead, of developing global awareness, world countries are conceived as a set of isolated facts rather than as deeply interconnected places.

How VWG Builds an Internal Globe

VWG transforms countries into familiar objects and proceeds to captivate students' ATTENTION by engaging their imagination. The Link between the name of a country and its object is embedded in fanciful, lighthearted, unpredicatable, scenarios sprinkled with humorously PUNNY stories. Think of the VWG method as a sweet treat that is also Highly BENEFICIAL.

  • See Countries as Familiar Objects

    The VWG science-based method creates a familiar object from a country's outline. For example, on a world map, look for a country's outline that is shaped like a boot, and you will have located Italy. VWG has transformed all world countries into such easily recognizable objects.

  • Linking Encodes New Info into Long-Term Memory

    VWG uses a UNIQUE, imaginative, and memorable story line to forge strong links between a country's object, its name, and even the name of its capital. So when students hear or read a country's name, its object's image automatically pulls up for instant recall.

  • Familiar Objects are Easier to Organize

    Unlike meaningless, random lines, seeing countries as familiar objects allows students to mentally manipulate and organize them. Then countries are placed easily into regions, and within continents, and hemispheres. The RESULT is an INTERNAL FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD students can reference at will--the KEY to geographic fluency and meaningful global awareness.

RESULTS

Students who acquire their own internal globe, using the VWG method that made it easy for them, not only become more curious about the world around them, but benefit from a whole host of other outcomes, such as:

  • GEOGRAPHIC FLUENCY

  • MEANINGFUL GLOBAL AWARENESS

  • CONFIDENCE DISCUSSING CURRENT EVENTS

  • A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY

  • INTERPRETING FACTS FROM A "BIG PICTURE" PERSPECTIVE

  • A LASTING FRAMEWORK THEY CAN REFERENCE AT WILL FOR FUTURE LEARNING

  • CONFIDENCE AS CAPABLE LEARNERS

Proven Across Diverse Learners and Learning Environments

Whether in regular classrooms, gifted programs, special-needs settings, Co-ops, or homes, VWG has helped students of varying ages and abilities, build their OWN INTERNAL GLOBE--making geographic fluency and meaningful global awareness possible.

"I have been using the VWG Program for over 10 years, and I wholeheartedly recommend it!"

Initially, I used it at home with my three sons, ages 9 yo, 12 yo, and 13yo, and saw excellent results. Then, for the past 10 years, I incorporated VWG into our homeschool co-op classrooms, working with students from the 5th through 12th grades—with equally impressive outcomes. The one aspect I truly appreciate about the VWG program, is its scientific approach, using mnemonics, which makes learning both enjoyable and effective through short, easily digestible lessons. —Patricia Akouka, Homeschool Co-op Educator
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