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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

"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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