Evan Moor Daily Geography Practice

I have ACE. It's a perfect fit for a textbook learner. I am using it next year with my ds. I've looked through it all and it looks great!

My son did ACE Geography last year as a 9th grader. If you use it the way it's meant to be used, it's a very rigorous course. There's a lot of reading/worktext stuff to do, but what makes it hard is that there's a TON of memorization. The student is tested on the name and location of every country in the world (and when you do the PACE on the United States, he needs to know the states and their capitals). He also has to know a lot of information on each country/region for the tests. Plus there's map work.

Here's a suggestion for a basic geography course at your daughter's 7th grade level.

Mark Twain Media sells these. I found them at Rainbow Resource website for about $10.50 for each book. Wonderful!

Two books. One for 7th, Western Hemisphere. One for 8th, Eastern Hemisphere. You could complete both in one year, I bet, or complete one in 7th and one in 8th.

They cover what is needed to know, as they were written to address the National Geography Standards. And they are in workbook form, as would suit your dd.

If I had it to do over again, I would use something like this, then use something like BJU World Geography in high school for high school credit.

Please go to the Rainbow Resource website for further review. You can read table of contents and view some sample pages.

Susan

I've been eyeing this one too:
http://rainbowresource.com/product/sku/007029/bd17efed1760f395f014b029

Geographic Literacy
"An excellent tool for geographic memorization. The book is divided into several sections, each featuring a continent or portion of a continent. Each continent is displayed six ways: labeled political map with capital cities; corresponding blank map; labeled physical features map; corresponding blank map; blank political map keyed to a multiple choice test; blank physical features map keyed to a multiple choice test. The idea is to drill daily to memorize the locations and names of features, capitals, etc. until the student can correctly label each map, around the world. The last 30 pages of the book feature a “final test” section with a similar format for the entire world. Maps are current. Permission is given for one teacher to reproduce worksheets for her students, so only one book need be purchased by a homeschool family. Can you find the Ob River?"

Oops, I forgot to mention the name of the two workbooks by Mark Twain Media sold at Rainbow Resource.

Discovering the World of Geography.

Susan

No, I have not gotten the pacworks geography yet. My dd will be in 8th this year and we will do world geography in 9th. But I did like the looks of it and it's what at the top of my list right now. I also have Walch world geography on my list. I have never used ACE so I can't compare it to pac.

Have you looked at the Geography Matters website? I highly recommend their products. They have a WONDERFUL "Trail Guides to World Geography" I highly recommend. At the end, there is a literary study, but you can just skip it.

Also, if you want to make it a little more fun, I recommend:
To State it Simply, It's a Capital Game. It is a card game that helps your child memorize states and capitals. They color and cut out the cards and make the box the cards go into.
Mad Dash. Is a map game that helps them learn which states touch which. Each round is played in about three minutes. It's really fun.