076 Great Ways to Explore the World From Home

Introducing our children to new places, cultures, ideas, and food is an important piece of their real world education. Visiting these new places in person is always amazing but sometimes we can also explore right from the comfort of our own homes. Melissa Scott from Scott Family Travels joins Lisa to share practical ideas on how to learn about places around the world while at home. Get ready to discover inspiration about how to use music, language, games, maps, food, crafts, and dance to open the world up for our kids.

There are so many fun ways to discover and learn about new places. Join us to gain inspiration on how to explore new places with your kids from home.

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“There is value in exploring new places.”

— Melissa Scott

Importance of Exploring New Places

There is so much value in learning about new cultures and places. It helps us and our kids gain a greater understanding of others. It is insightful to learn about new languages, cultures, ideas, and traditions. As we teach our kids about the world, they will hopefully learn to be more accepting and loving towards others.

Ways to Learn About the World From Home

Let the kids choose places they would like to learn about.
Teach kids how to look up information online about new destinations.
Use books you have at home or visit a library to find non-fiction books about new places and fiction stories that take place in other countries.
Incorporate a variety of learning opportunities with dance, movies, music, language, games, maps, food, crafts, and home decor.
Plan a full day to learn all you can about a new place. Or you could spread it out over a week or more.
Check out Melissa’s lesson plans she created for Japan, Mexico, Italy, France, England, and Fiji. She’s done all of the work for you and included many downloadable and printable pages for you to use at home.

Reference Resources

Of course, Google is a great place to start.
YouTube. On YouTube, look for virtual tours of cities. Search “Venice Virtual Tour” and walk the streets of Venice without even leaving your home.
Crayola.com has printables of many counrty’s flags.
Lonely Planet Kid’s Book
Lonely Planet First Words which come in many languages. Here are a few: Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and French.

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