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North America Unit Study

Grab your passports and begin exploring North America with the Global Explorers Club, a family-style “Around the World” homeschool curriculum.

Together, you’ll learn about different peoples and their cultures and share engaging stories and folk tales from Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

You’ll meet artists and musicians, sample global cuisine, create art, and play games together. From science notebooking activities and mapwork lessons to writing prompts and cultural projects, our newly updated North America continent bundle offers a full year of rich, multidisciplinary learning your whole family will enjoy.

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A detailed look at the Global Explorers Club's Montessori-inspired 3-part map cards for North America, featuring 14 different countries and their flags. Designed for hands-on geography learning, helping children identify country locations and flags.

Boost math skills and learn about the most popular grocery items throughout North America with Market Math! This hands-on activity uses real-life grocery shopping scenarios to teach budgeting, cost calculation, and making change. With dozens of self-correcting task cards, it’s perfect for helping students build confidence with money and decision-making. It's a great cultural studies activity for both home educators and classrooms!

A detailed look at the Global Explorers Club's Montessori-inspired Infinity Street place value activity, where each house represents a number family, helping children understand number families and become proficient in adding, subtracting, and estimating large numbers, while exploring country populations throughout North America.

North America Unit Study

$40.00

Our North America unit study includes detailed lesson plans, engaging hands-on activities, and exclusive resources that cover geography and literature to science and the arts, all through the lens of different countries and cultures. Here’s a list of the countries included in our North America continent bundle:

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What you get

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Our North America continent bundle includes 12 unit studies, plus dozens of high-quality printable resources and activities.

12 comprehensive unit studies with a flexible online curriculum planning tool that will provide all the support and resources you need to explore North America together
A unit planner for every country included in the continent bundle
The Global Explorer’s Journal
Sentence strategy worksheets based on Judith Hochman’s The Writing Revolution method for each country and Circle Round folk tale (grab a freebie here!)
“Making Words” activity sheets to practice spelling
Book discussion guides for The Girl From Chimel by Rigoberta Menchú, Salsa Stories by Lulu Delacre, and Island Treasures: Growing Up In Cuba by by Alma Flor Ada
Multicultural math activities, including Market Math, Infinity Street, and Elapsed Time task cards
Mapwork and notebooking activities, including Montessori 3-part map cards
Science notebooking sheets on specific topics relevant to each country
Global game suggestions and printable game boards when applicable
A Global Explorers cookbook template, plus blank recipe and shopping list cards
A virtues coloring poster
Biomes Around the World food pyramid templates
Global Explorers Club boarding passes and reading tickets
Suggested supplemental science and learning extensions for each unit
Plus, exclusive access to the Global Explorers Club Resource Library, where new materials are made available to you regularly.

Wondering if Global Explorers is the right fit for your family?

Take a look at our 10-question guide to see if our flexible, family-style approach fits your homeschooling style.

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North America Unit Study

See what adventures and learning opportunities await your family…

Canada

Then you’re off to Canada, where you’ll meet Ted Harrison and learn about landscape painting; explore printmaking with Kenojuak Ashevak; bake bannock bread in Cooking Class; and discuss the principles of learning while reading Nicola I. Campbell’s book Shi-shi-etko and Neekna and Chemai by Jeannette Armstrong. Your family will investigate animal adaptations and begin to explore the world’s biomes, starting with Canada’s Great Bear Rain Forest.

Mexico

In Mexico you’ll explore son jarocho music with the Villalobos Brothers, meet Frida Kahlo and practice painting self-portraits, learn how to make arroz con leche, discuss food chains, learn about the desert ecosystem, make a piñata, and much more!

Guatemala

Explore the heart of Central America as you journey through Guatemala, a land of mountains, volcanoes, and ancient Maya cities. Together, you’ll enjoy stories like The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchú and learn about the art of backstrap weaving. You’ll create colorful worry dolls, explore volcanoes through hands-on science activities, and uncover the rich heritage of Maya pottery and textiles that continue to shape Guatemala’s culture today.

And that’s just to start!

With a total of 12 unit studies, your family will have all the support and resources you need to explore North America.

Take a peek at the countries on our adventure throughout North America…

Canada
Mexico
Guatemala
El Salvador
Costa Rica
Panama

Cuba
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Saint Lucia

Make Every Moment Count

At the Global Explorers Club, we believe that education should be an exciting journey that brings families closer together. Our curriculum is designed to alleviate the stress of lesson planning, allowing you to focus on what matters most: spending quality time learning and exploring with your children.

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Books & Resources

Here are the suggested books to have on hand as you explore North America together. Remember, the Global Explorers program is flexible, and you don’t necessarily have to use all of the books listed below.