The Map Skills series gives children the tools to understand and use maps. Children will also learn critical thinking skills, observation skills, spatial awareness, and directional skills to help them understand and enjoy creation. 

The Workbook features:

• Enjoyable, illustrated, full-color lessons teaching strong map skills
• Varied exercises and activities for practicing map skills

The Teacher’s Guide includes:

• Complete answer key
• Enrichment ideas for each lesson

Map Skills D is recommended for fourth-grade use.

This detailed, colorful map of the world is a handy reference tool full of useful, up-to-date information. Features:

• country borders
• capital cities
• latitude and longitude lines
• major mountains, seas, and rivers 
• Unfolds from 6″×9″ to 24″×18″

The back of the map fits an amazing amount of information on one fold-out sheet of paper, listing the world’s top 10:

• Islands
• Rivers
• Mountains
• Deserts
• Oceans & Seas
• Lakes

For each country, the back of Folding World Map lists:

• Flag
• Government Type
• Area
• Population

For each continent, the back of Folding World Map lists:

• Land Area
• Population
• Highest Point
• Lowest Point

Updated regularly!

Pack your bags and don’t forget to bring your camera! Tour a Country is a hands-on student course that provides an engaging introduction to world cultures and geography. The suggested schedule covers one country per month in two lessons per week. If your child is eager to learn more, additional time can be set aside each week for enrichment activities included in the course.

This course guides your child through different countries which have been selected for their historical, geographical, and cultural features. Your child will “tour” a country each month and create a travel brochure for each. By the end of the year, your child will have completed eight travel brochures and have a passport brimming with exciting memories!

Each country tour includes:

• Passport
• Travel brochure
• Twenty or more full-color images of native animals, historical people or places, Catholic shrines, and saints to be used in travel brochure
• World map showing where in the world the country is located 
• Two colorful maps of the country 
• Words to Know
• Weekly plan covering a month of directed studies: 
  • labeling important places and topography
  • exploring native animals, climate, special attractions, natural resources, important historical events or places, Catholic missionaries, and MORE 
• Full page of enrichment activities including a list of historical fiction and discussion questions

Over 175 full-color photos! 

A daily schedule for this core text is available in CHC Lesson Plans for Third Grade.

Note–the Folding World Map is needed to complete this course.

Widen your child’s understanding to include all of God’s children worldwide! This hands-on course takes you and your child on a step-by-step exploration of each of the seven continents, featuring:

• Geography
• Climate
• Animals
• Landmarks
• Saints

Explore the Continents centers on the creation of colorful continent map displays that engage the child’s interest and pull together the many facts he is learning about each continent.

Explore the Continents includes:

• Geography term flashcards
• 250+ full-color images of animals, landmarks, saints, and local culture for use in making continent map displays
• Discussion and research questions
• Read-aloud book recommendations for each continent
• Activities including mapping fun, climograph, and games
• Mid-year and year-end reviews

A daily schedule for this core text is available in CHC Lesson Plans for Second Grade.

Note—students will also need 7 Continent Maps to complete this course.

Our Friends from Other Lands features nearly 30 intriguing tales about people from other lands. Your child will read about Carmen, who lives in the Philippines in a “village on sticks”; the Japanese boy-martyr Thomas Kozaki, who knew how to put first things first; and the people of Oberammergau, Germany who give God a different kind of thank you. The full-color worktext includes stories and country overviews for 27 countries, as well as comprehension questions, an illustrated glossary, and a removable answer key.

Added benefit! Our Friends from Other Lands provides additional historical and cultural background for your student’s study of Tour a Country.

These poster-sized outline maps of the continents are specially designed to accompany Explore the Continents. The area inside the featured continent is left blank so the student can add topographical features as well as images of landmarks, saints, and native animals (images included in Explore the Continents). Each of the seven maps unfolds from 8.5″ x 11″ to 22″ x 25.5″.

Lands of Hope and Promise presents the history of North America from the landing of Columbus in 1492 to the late 20th century. It tells the story of the European colonists and of the native peoples and cultures with which they interacted and came into conflict. It continues through 1973, focusing on the United States as the representative of Anglo-American culture, with a minor focus on Mexico as the representative of Latin American culture.

Lands of Hope and Promise includes the contributions of the Catholic Church and its communities, individuals, and ideas, enriching the standard textbook narrative of American history. And it tells this history as a story, with all the color and drama that belongs to it.

The Textbook includes:

• Highlighted dates and events
• Important characters in history
• Definitions of key terms
• End of chapter reviews 

The accompanying Teacher’s Manual includes: 

• Goals
• Activities
• Quizzes
• Tests
• Complete answer key 

The Map Skills series gives children the tools to understand and use maps. Children will also learn critical thinking skills, observation skills, spatial awareness, and directional skills to help them understand and enjoy creation. 

The Workbook features:

• Enjoyable, illustrated, full-color lessons teaching strong map skills
• Varied exercises and activities for practicing map skills

The Teacher’s Guide includes:

• Complete answer key
• Enrichment ideas for each lesson

Map Skills G is recommended for seventh-grade use.

Light to the Nations, Part 2 presents the history of the modern era in story form. The central consideration of this volume is showing how modern ideas, institutions, and culture have developed from the high centuries of Christian culture. Drawing on the guidance of Catholic thinkers and the popes, this history presents the hope that Christian thought and work hold for the future.

The Light to the Nations, Part 2 Textbook features: 

• Extensive color illustrations and charts
• Lives of great men and women
• Geography of Europe
• Interesting sidebars about historical art, literature, poetry, and music
• Definitions of key terms
• Chapter summaries, key concepts, and review questions
• Suggestions for activities and meditation inspired by history

The Teacher’s Manual (optional) includes:

• Chapter overview and goals
• Quizzes and tests
• Answer key to textbook review questions
• Pronunciation Guide
• Lists of Supplemental Reading (historical fiction) and Suggested Recordings (music from different time periods) to enrich your student’s study
• Timeline (list of key events from A.D. 1517 to 2005)
• Pronunciation Guide
• Supplemental Reading List (historical fiction) and Period Music recommendations to enrich your student’s study

The Workbook (optional) provides exercises that can be assigned instead of the review questions provided in the text. The workbook features a variety of different exercises to keep students’ interest. Answer key available separately.

*For answers to the questions in the Textbook, purchase the Teacher’s Manual. For answers to the Workbook, purchase CHC’s Answer Key to the Workbook.

Light to the Nations, Part 2 is recommended for eighth- through twelfth-grade use. A daily schedule for this program is available in CHC Lesson Plans: Eighth Grade or Light to the Nations Part 2 Daily Lesson Plans.

Light to the Nations, Part 1 is a complete history course that tells the story of the coming of Christ, the Roman Empire, medieval Christendom, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Catholic Reformation. 

The Light to the Nations, Part 1 Textbook features: 

• Extensive color illustrations and charts
• Lives of great men and women
• Geography of the Mediterranean world and Europe
• Interesting sidebars about historical art, literature, poetry, and music
• Definitions of key terms
• Chapter summaries, key concepts, and review questions
• Suggestions for activities and meditation inspired by history

The Teacher’s Manual (optional) includes:

• Chapter overview and goals
• Quizzes and tests
• Answer key to textbook review questions
• Pronunciation Guide
• Lists of Supplemental Reading (historical fiction) and Suggested Recordings (music from different time periods) to enrich your student’s study
• Timeline (list of key events from 50,000 B.C. to A.D. 1774)

The Workbook provides exercises that can be assigned instead of the review questions provided in the text. The workbook features a variety of different exercises to keep students’ interest. Answer key available separately.

*For answers to the questions in the Textbook, purchase the Teacher’s Manual. For answers to the Workbook, purchase CHC’s Answer Key to the Workbook.

Light to the Nations, Part 1 is recommended for seventh- through ninth-grade use. A daily schedule for this program is available in CHC Lesson Plans: Seventh Grade or Light to the Nations Part 1 Daily Lesson Plans.