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World Geography and Missions
Learning About the World and the Great Commission

Teacher:  Priscilla Whisler

Tuition: $160.00 per year, payable in monthly installments of $20.00

OR $140.00 per year, payable in semester installments of $70.00

Materials Fee (due at registration):  $10.00 to cover cost of handouts

Deposit Due at Registration:  $20.00

Grades:  4th-6th

Minimum Class Size: 8 students

Maximum Class Size:  16 students

Class Time: 2nd (9:30-10:25)

Required Materials:

  • 3 ring binder
  • A set of coloring pencils
  • Scholastic Homework Reference Series; Everything You Need to Know About Geography Homework by Zeman and Kelly, retail $8.95
  • Operation World; 21st Century Edition by Johnstone and Mandryk, c.2001 with selected 2005 revisions, paperback Or on CD ROM - prices vary.
Students will study the five themes of geography covered in the Zeman text and become familiar with the names of each country and their capitals. We will also study basics of Old and New Testament geography. The study of world missions will be done through true-life stories of missionaries, past and present.

Weekly homework assignments (a mini country profile worksheet) will allow students to focus on nations of interest. Weekly quizzes will reinforce geography vocabulary and map skills. Two written projects, a missionary biography and country research project, will encourage writing skills. The country research project is done throughout the year concurrent with geography concepts being learned. For example, when learning about climates, the student will write a portion about the climate in the country they are researching. Because of the writing element, fourth graders will find this course challenging, most fifth and sixth graders are comfortable with it.

Students will be encouraged to participate in the annual geography bee held in February. Visits by missionaries on furlough will be scheduled.as available. Prayer for unreached people groups will be encouraged. A field trip to Wycliffe International Museum of Cultures and the International Linguistic Center (near Dallas) will be planned. (http://www.internationalmuseumofcultures.org/sitemap.asp ; http://www.sil.org/ilc/)

Teacher Information: 

Priscilla Whisler is a homeschooling mother of three children. She is a registered nurse and received her BS degree in nursing and Spanish from Molloy College. She has travelled abroad to several nations for missions work since 1985 and is a 2002 graduate of the Antioch Training School.