Drawing Around the World

The curriculum provides clear, structured daily lessons with explicit drawing instructions.

Each page clearly indicates 'Day 1' or 'Day 2' activities, with systematic progression from tracing to independent drawing

Strong emphasis on retrieval practice through repeated drawing and labeling exercises across multiple days and weeks.

Students 'repeat this same exercise both days' and 'will have drawn some countries over and over again for many weeks' with Day 4 requiring drawing from memory

No evidence of primary source document engagement in this geography-focused drawing curriculum.

The review describes only drawing exercises, country fact tables, and reference to external websites and atlases

The curriculum does not build chronological historical knowledge as it focuses entirely on geographic drawing skills.

The review indicates this is 'not comprehensive geography' and focuses on drawing outlines of countries/states rather than historical content

Minimal teacher support materials, though the simple format makes implementation straightforward.

The review mentions recommended external resources but doesn't indicate comprehensive teacher guidance within the curriculum itself

Limited vocabulary instruction beyond basic geographic terms and country/capital names.

The curriculum includes country facts tables with capitals and basic data, but the review suggests these 'are not likely to be memorable without some other sort of learning'

The curriculum builds specific geographic knowledge through repeated drawing of country and state outlines and their spatial relationships.

Students learn 'how they lie in relation to neighboring countries or states' and work with longitude/latitude grid maps, though the review notes it's 'not comprehensive geography'