My Year Around the World
This globe-spanning journal sparks daily creativity while building geography smarts, cultural insight, and storytelling skills—one playful prompt at a time. No passport required!
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2026 Tenth-Grade Curriculum Kit
My Year Around the World
My Year Around the World combines geography, culture, creative writing, and journaling into a yearlong exploration of fascinating places and traditions from around the globe. Through 365 engaging prompts, students discover unique locations, customs, landmarks, celebrations, and everyday experiences while creating a personalized record of their journey.
The prompts are delightfully unpredictable. One day students may be designing a traditional cuckoo clock inspired by Germany's Black Forest, while the next they're exploring Thailand's monkey festivals, imagining life on Japan's Cat Island, or learning about remarkable places and traditions they may never have encountered before. The activities feel more like invitations to explore than assignments to complete.
Each prompt introduces an interesting destination, cultural practice, historical fact, or geographical feature before inviting students to respond through writing, drawing, sketching, brainstorming, or creative reflection. Some prompts take only a few minutes to complete, while others naturally lead to longer writing sessions, additional research, or family conversations about the world beyond their own backyard.
Rather than focusing on memorizing geography facts and moving on, My Year Around the World encourages students to engage with the people, places, and traditions that make each region unique. Along the way, they strengthen creativity, observation skills, written expression, cultural awareness, and geographic knowledge.
The flexible format allows students to work daily, several times a week, or whenever inspiration strikes. Because the prompts are independent of one another, families can move through the book in any order without losing continuity.
By the end of the year, students will have created a one-of-a-kind collection of journal entries, illustrations, ideas, and reflections. For students who enjoy drawing, journaling, creating, or simply collecting unusual facts, My Year Around the World offers a refreshing way to build geography knowledge without feeling like a traditional geography course.
How to Use My Year Around the World
- For most students, completing one prompt each school day creates an easy, enjoyable rhythm. At that pace, you'll cover roughly 180 activities during the school year while leaving plenty of additional prompts available for free days, summer exploration, or exploring especially interesting topics in greater depth.
- If your teen tends to get bogged down by too many choices, consider completing every other prompt. The book works beautifully that way and still delivers a wide variety of cultures, locations, and experiences from around the world.
- Students who enjoy drawing, journaling, and creative projects may prefer completing two prompts in a sitting. Because each activity stands on its own, it's easy to adjust the pace to match your student's interest and schedule.
- Keep a pencil, pen, and a few colored markers nearby. The focus is on creativity and exploration, not art supplies, so there's no need for anything elaborate.
- Encourage your teen to follow curiosity when a prompt sparks interest. A five-minute activity can easily turn into a discussion about geography, a quick map search, or a deeper look into an unfamiliar culture. Those unexpected detours are often where some of the richest learning happens.
By the end of the year, your student will have created a personal collection of sketches, journal entries, ideas, and reflections—a unique record of a year spent exploring the world one prompt at a time.
Publisher: Kane Miller
ISBN: 9781684644513
Author: Anne Rooney
Illustrator: Charlotte Farmer
Printed in: China Copyright: 2022
Ages: 8+
Pages: 144
Activities: 365
- March 6, 2026
Quick and fun daily activity
Steph H.
This book is a fun, daily activity to think about and interact with the world around us through different creative means. It will be a neat keepsake at the end of the year.
- February 24, 2026
Enjoyable
Steph H.
Every day my son chooses one of the activities to complete. It's a fun and easy task that will be a neat keepsake for the future.
- April 18, 2025
Looks Fun
Eliza’s M.
This books looks like a fun and engaging way to introduce cultural studies into the day.
- April 17, 2025
Great opener each day
Rachelle
We use this everyday. It is a great way to start each school day.
- February 16, 2025
Cute little book
Kristen F.
This a great little book to draw or color a fun picture every day. It only take few minutes to complete and a great little journal to keep for when they get older.
- April 20, 2024
Interesting, but not always engaging
Jill W.
Our daughter LOVES geography, culture, and other countries. She also loves art and being creative. We thought this would be a big hit, but it sort of missed the mark. I think it's best used in a "creative" mode and not a daily one. Some days she just wasn't inspired or was uninterested. Other times she'd find the info really interesting and... an hour later, we're behind on school work, but we had fun looking something up! I think it might work better as a "work on 2-3 at a time" when the creative/artistic part of the brain is running, instead of a daily type of project.
