Guest Hollow’s High School Geography & Cultures Curriculum
Guest Hollow’s Geography and Cultures Curriculum is PACKED full of great books, videos, art projects, music, recipes, and more to make the world come alive for students! This is NOT the typical boring high school geography curriculum. Guest Hollow’s Geography & Cultures Curriculum is designed to engage and inform in a way to help students retain and enjoy what they are learning.

Guest Hollow’s Geography Curriculum won FIRST PLACE in the Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards. Thousands of homeschoolers ranked the curriculum they have used, and the products with the highest satisfaction ratings won. Our High School Geography and Cultures Curriculum and Jr. Geography garnered the highest satisfaction rating out of all the geography program nominees. Click for more details.
Approximate Daily Time Commitment:
1-2 hours depending on activities that are chosen
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Homeschooling with Guest Hollow’s High School Geography & Cultures is rich, fun and flexible!
If you’ve been planning on having your high schooler (or middle schooler) study geography, you DON’T want to miss out on Guest Hollow’s Geography and Cultures Curriculum!
In this curriculum, students will learn about:
- Geography concepts
- Geopolitics
- People and animals around the world
- Countries
- Culture
- A bit of world history (in order to understand current events)
- Ethnic foods
- So much more!
We believe geography is an often over-looked subject that sometimes gets short shrift in our homeschools. When it’s covered at all, geography is usually squashed into history studies or quickly glossed over with a workbook or song. Students often spend time learning about the cultures of ancient civilizations, but they don’t usually spend as much time learning about the current cultures, people and places that exist all over the world. That leaves them woefully unprepared to understand our world’s politics, world-wide needs or even that there are people who live very different lives from themselves. Learning about the world can open their eyes, mind, and heart concerning others and excite their imaginations with animals, cuisine, landscapes, culture, and stories from different regions around the world.
Learn about the world!
Geography & cultures should be something we as homeschoolers don’t neglect. In this ever-expanding global community, our kids NEED to know this material to understand so many of the things going on in our world that directly affect us as global citizens.
Guest Hollow’s High School Geography & Cultures Curriculum brings geography to life. Join us for a
journey around the world!
You get a free textbook!
We offer a FREE online textbook for our high school geography curriculum. You can access it here. The online textbook is used as a *spine book for the curriculum. *A spine book is used as a launching point (or backbone) for your studies.
We’ve worked very hard to present information about geography concepts, places, people, culture, regional animals and more along with hand-picked videos, maps, illustrations, and photos in our online book to make geography and cultures understandable and interesting, even for reluctant learners.

Does this curriculum come with ____________?
✘ books?
No, you need to purchase the other scheduled geography books separately. Learn more.
However, you do get access to a FREE online textbook with embedded videos!
☑ a printable book list?
Yes. We provide a book list with a handy checklist to help you plan what you want to buy or borrow and in what format. We also let you know when each book is scheduled in, so you can arrange to check out books from the library before you need them!
☑ a schedule?
Yes. You get the same weekly schedule in 3 different formats: PDF, Microsoft Word, and online*. Just open it up and you are ready to learn!
*Access to the online version of the curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances on our end and yours including but not limited to various computer, device, and internet configurations.
☑ a supply list?
Yes. Recipe ingredients, art supplies, and more are listed at the beginning of your schedule week-by-week.
✘ a teacher’s manual?
No. The geography schedule is all you need!
✘ tests?
No. There are no tests with this curriculum.
☑ a workbook?
Yes. You get a FREE 295 page full-color workbook with the purchase of this curriculum (160 student pages and an answer key at the back). The workbook includes study questions for some of the schedule books, maps, lots of illustrations and photos, and even some comics!
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If you’ve used Guest Hollow’s High School Geography and Cultures Curriculum, we invite you to write a review and leave your thoughts about our curriculum. Scroll down to the review box below the following customer reviews. We look forward to seeing your feedback!
Paulette (verified owner) –
My 9th grade son (and I) have really enjoyed this course and learned a lot about the world we live in. My son is dyslexic and appreciated the variety of video resources to go with the excellent book choices. We used this course set up on a Trello board to let him do most of his work independently.
Debra Brinkman (verified owner) –
We decided to split Guest Hollow Geography into two half-credit courses, and it was a fantastic decision. Doing each scheduled week over two weeks gives us more time to play with food on weekends and/or watch some travel videos. The course splits almost exactly in half by continent, so the working course names are Western World Geography and Geography of Africa and Asia. We’ll see if that is what stays on the transcripts.
The online textbook is absolutely fantastic — and available FREE — but we are really loving the schedule and it was worth every penny. We do pick and choose from the books and videos, as doing it all would make this worth a full credit each year! But this means I can adapt to focus on what my two high school students are interested in and what I think is really important.
Martha Artyomenko –
I was looking for a program that would give a well rounded Geographical study with cultures and history study for a co-op class I was teaching to a range of ages from 7th-12th grade This one hit the spot. If your child is not a reader, there is tons of videos, audio books, and interactive ways to learn and choose from. If your child is advanced, they will have enough work to keep them busy. This is not an all or nothing program, but you can easily do what you can and learn tons.
Amy (verified owner) –
We are just finishing our first year using Guest Hollow. We are almost all the way through the high school geography. It has been really good! There is to much here and so we picked and chose what works for my family (a 14, 16 and 17 year old). My kids follow the reading schedule on their own, we watch the videos together as a family and my two oldest fill out the printable workbook. The books and videos are very interesting and we all enjoy them! I think we have all learned something this year!
Stephanie Gaylor (verified owner) –
My daughter and I are beyond excited to use this curriculum. We ordered it for the 2021-22 school year, but she has already started to watch some of the videos. I love that there is such a variety of books, videos and activities.
Heather –
My son and I are really enjoying this class this year. I love how adaptable it is, and that I can tailor it to his interests because there are so many options given. We are both learning so much!