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South America Unit Study

Grab your passports and begin exploring South 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 across South America.

You’ll meet artists and musicians, sample global cuisine, create art, and play games together, while learning about the Galápagos Islands, the Inka Empire, the Andes Mountains, the Amazon Rainforest, and more!

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Geography notebooking for kids - South America Explorer's Journal encourages children to research and record their findings about different countries located throughout South America.

Montessori-inspired 3-part map cards for South America, featuring 12 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 South 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 South America.

South America Unit Study

$30

Our South 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 South America continent bundle:

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💡Need help getting started? View our Quick Start Guide for South America for simple tips on using our curriculum and planning your week.

What you get

With your purchase

Our South America unit study includes 9 country studies, plus dozens of high-quality printable resources and activities.

9 comprehensive unit studies with a flexible online curriculum planning tool that will provide all the support and resources you need to explore South 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 Incredible Yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, Juana & Lucas, and Fuzz McFlops
Multicultural math activities, including Market Math, Infinity Street, and Elapsed Time task cards
Mapwork and notebooking activities, including 3-part map cards
Science notebooking sheets on specific topics relevant to each country
A Global Explorers cookbook template, plus blank recipe and shopping list cards
Global game suggestions and printable game boards when applicable
A virtues poster
Biomes Around the World food pyramid templates
Global Explorers Club boarding passes and reading tickets
Plus, exclusive access to the Global Explorers Club Resource Library, where new materials are made available to you regularly!

South America Unit Study

See what adventures and learning opportunities await your family…

The Global Explorers Club's Venezuela unit study resources, including children's books Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln, The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, and Countries of the World.

Homeschool Notebooking activitity: The Incredible Yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, a book discussion guide included in the Global Explorers Club's South America unit study, a secular homeschool geography curriculum.

Venezuela

You’ll begin your trek through South America in Venezuela, alongside the famous explorer Alexander von Humboldt. You’ll read about his journey along the Orinoco River, study the ecosystem of the Andes, meet Teresa Carreño, and explore Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall.

Colombia

Next, you’ll head to Colombia where you’ll read Juana & Lucas together, meet teacher and librarian Luis Soriano Bohórquez, begin to study the Inka Empire and its legacy, explore cumbia music, and learn how to make empanadas.

Juana & Lucas mapwork activity and book discussion guide, part of the Global Explorers Club's Colombia unit study, a homeschool geography curriculum

A child plays Trique, a three-in-a-row game from Colombia.

Ecuador

In Ecuador, you’ll continue your adventures with Alexander von Humboldt, learn about Andean music, meet artist Julio Toaquiza, and study Charles Darwin and the Galápagos Islands. You’ll work with basic mapping skills, including latitude and longitude, create your own fieldwork journal, investigate ocean and wind currents, vegetative zones, and more.

Peru

When you study Peru, you’ll meet Julio C. Tello and begin learning about archeology, continue to explore the Inka Empire, make clay llamas, try your hand at Peruvian embroidery, and make Papas a la Huancaina in cooking class.

And that’s just to start!

With a total of 9 unit studies, your family will have all the support and resources you need to explore South America.

Take a peek at the countries on our adventure through South America…

Click into each country to find more detailed information about the books and hands-on cultural activities you’ll explore together.

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 South America together. Remember, the Global Explorers program is flexible, and you don’t necessarily have to use all of the books listed below.