WonderMaps Give-Away
UPDATE: This give-away is now closed. The winner is Sarah B. Comment#66. Congratulations Sarah!
We are excited here at Bright Ideas Press because WonderMaps was just awarded:
TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Award for the 2011
Top Social Studies Product!
To celebrate we are going to give away one FREE copy of WonderMaps!
“Great! How do I win?” you wonder…
So glad you asked! Here is all you need to do to enter:
- Go to our main page. www.BrightIdeasPress.com
- Read about WonderMaps.
- Watch the short video.
- Then drop us a note HERE ON THIS BLOG POST (in the comments) telling us ONE WAY in which you would use WonderMaps.
- That’s it!
Read a page, watch a short video, post an idea. Period. ♥
Then, on June 10th, we will pick a randomly generated comment and award that poster a free copy of WonderMaps. On top of that, if we find a comment we really really like, we’ll pull out something special for that poster as well. (Not sure what yet, but something fun.)
Read more about the awards and check out the other winners here:
http://homeschoolblogger.com/homeschoolcrew/783998/
“One of the TOS Homeschool Crew’s favorite things to do at the end of a voyage is to reflect on their favorite products that they have reviewed during the Crew Year. This began at the end of our first Voyage in 2008-2009 when crew members began listing their Top 10 Favorite Products on their individual blogs. Last year, during the 2009-2010 Voyage, we formed what are now known as the TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Awards. As a point of interest, we had 80 different vendors this year.”
God bless,
*who is way excited about this amazing program!
PS – and who also wishes it had been available when she was homeschooling.
PPS – and who is very proud of her son Tyler for developing this product!
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Maggie is Bright Ideas Press's Founder and Creative Director. She is a wife, mom, grandmom, author, and speaker. Her favorite things are Jesus, playing with her granddaughters, reading, writing, traveling, encouraging moms, and drinking coffee. Find Maggie on Instagram @maggiehogan.
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Awesome!!! I would use WonderMaps with Mystery of History, what a great looking program!
This looks so amazing. I would love to use this in conjunction with Illuminations 1 (which I recently purchased for grades 3-8 and high school.) I would also love to use this in my study of the Bible. Thank you for this opportunity to win! It’s going on my wishlist even if I don’t win. 🙂
I would use WonderMaps for MANY things. I would use WonderMaps to enhance our studies of Mystery of History Vol 2 for this year and then for American History and MOH vol 3 for next year. I love that you can remove the country names, add the rivers, and customzize it however you need it.
I also would like to use Wondermaps in Conjunction with a study of unreached and persecuted people groups. There are so many people who have no Bible in their language and/or who are persecuted bc of their faith. My children work to raise money in conjunction with our church to translate verses of the Bible in native languages so this is a mission we are familiar with. Having a map program with so much flexibility would make this task so much easier!
I am in love with this program and would LOVE to own it!
This looks wonderful! I would use it with my 3 youngest to help them learn geography.
This is incredible:) I would definitely use it this year to incorporate our use of All American History with my 6th and 12th graders. The adaptibility for both would be a great benefit, sometimes its hard having such a big gap between my 2. Not to mention the different learning styles. Great job, Tyler!
I would use WonderMaps in our studies with MOH, Volume 1 next year!
wow, I didn’t get the opportunity to try this product with this crew this year but how awesome! We are studying American History next year so I could use this at home with my kids as well as print some to use and laminate for our Classical Conversations group!
And how awesome to be able to see the then and now maps!!
I am looking forward to using Wonder Maps side by side with Mystery of History,
I love maps! I cover the walls of our schoolroom with them. I would love to use this for adding to my children’s map skills and enriching their knowledge of God’s vast world. We just sponsored 4 children from World Vision and I have been wanting to show the kids where they are from, so that is the first thing I will do with this new product.
I have used other cd-rom based map programs, and never had just the map I wanted. Wondermaps would be a perfect fit for our weekly map skills practice and for charting the explorer’s with MOH 3 this upcoming school year.
I love this! Your timing for releasing it is perfect. We are studying geography in our Sunday School class at church and our pastor often states that geography drives the narrative. I totally agree. We have been trying to find some great maps and I think I’ve found them! I can think of several ways I’ll use them, but am most excited about using them for the Charlotte Mason recommendation of Map Drill. I love that we can print the “completed” map and the “fill it in” map! Awesome product.
I am putting together a Geography Through Literature study for my 9th grader next year. I am using The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide to help me focus on the important geographical themes from each novel we read. WonderMaps would be such a help. I can see where I could use these maps to follow the action of the novel from beginning to end! What a great product!
after 10 years of homeschooling I am finally going to be teaching Geography next year. This program would be an awesome addition to our studies.
I would be very excited to use this program with MOH2 next year. In MOH1 I had many times that I felt I didn’t do the map exercises justice(Looking up info on historical maps just slipped off the schedule). Wondermaps would really help make the most of those learning opportunities!
I LOVE this! We like to include maps in all of our history studies to help them come alive for our children. This will be a great resource for having them at my fingertips instead of having to search each time. I particularly like the historical maps!!!
Love this – it would be great to use with our Mystery of History studies!! (and with any other Geography program we use)
Wonder Maps would eliminate my map printing problems. No more searching through several resources only to find a map that’s close to what I need. With the ability to print maps in both color or black & white, my daughter will no longer be confused which part of the map is water and which is land.
Whoo hoo, I have always slacked off teaching geography because I felt ill equipped. I would use this next year for MOH2 with my youngest, and my oldest can use it easily being compatible it seems with any other curriculum. I think they could even print off maps without details, laminate it and create games for learning!
Whoo hoo, I have always slacked off teaching geography because I felt ill equipped. I would use this next year for MOH2 with my youngest, and my oldest can use it easily being compatible it seems with any other curriculum. I think they could even print off maps without details, laminate it and create games for learning! This would enable them to use their own creativity in new ways
I am looking forward to our first year of MOH and wondermaps would make the planning that much easier!
My gosh what a neat idea! I have been looking on Amazon and other places for maps to use for exploring different countries on our own expedition. We are also going to be starting History with two very visual kiddos and this would be very cool for that as well. Wondermaps would make both History and Geography much easier for everyone and add some excitement as well.
This looks absolutely amazing! My five year old is fascinated with maps and this would be wonderful for him and something I could use for a very long time with our younger children as they begin homeschooling.
Wow! What an awesome product! I have wanted to use maps more, but never found the right maps that I would actually use enough to make it worth buying. I would use this with MOH II next year with my youngest 2, my oldest would use it with Notgrass World History, then the younger 2 have MOH III and AAH in the coming years. With 3 kids, I would be printing lots of maps!
My kids already LOVE geography and learning about God’s people all around the world. WONDERMAPS would be a fabulous resource to enhance learning and experiencing God’s hand in the world and throughout time. This aligns perfectly with my goals to introduce my children to the beautiful people and places God loves and cares for so much both now and throughout HisStory!
I think I could use this to generate maps for my preschooler (until he is in high school)! He’s already doing geopuzzles & expressing an interest in geography. This software could help me continue to encourage his interest for years to come 🙂
I would LOVE to win this! It would make it SOOOO much easier for me to coordinate geography! With kids in 3 different grades, I could easily print out maps with varying levels of details already filled in so that we could work together but still have “on my own” work to do, and I wouldn’t need to buy 3 sets of maps to do it!
This will be our 1st year to use Mystery of History and we could use a GREAT map to go along with it. It will also be fun to locate where my brother travels abroad working on oil rigs.
One way I would us this is through our history and geography lessons. It will definitively complete MOH and studies of countries.
I didn’t had the opportunity to review this and would love to have it for our homeschool. With four kids, I am sure it will be used thoroughly.
WOW! I hadn’t been looking much at this extra option because it totally isn’t in the bdget this year. But it is AMAZING. What fun it would be. My favorite thing is the historical maps with the modern map overlay! That is what I am always wondering about – where exactly it is now! I wonder if that overlay also is available on the Bible maps? I hope so. Besides using this our MOH and literature this would be wonderful to use with our Bible study – those Bible maps. I know my kids would enjoy using it also.
What a great addition to our Mystery of History and Illuminations curriculum! I love that the maps are customizable. I have struggled to find appropriate maps in the past, so I’m thrilled to find this.
Was just looking at that last night and thinking of buying to go with All Am. History that I just got. Would also use it when we go through MOH again with my youngest. It looks great!
One way I would use this would be to complement the History and geography lessons as I teach our son in the next several years.
Thanks for the opportunity.
I watched the video and this product is so cool. I know that it would really be useful for our Bible Studies and also geography. My kids are young now and I can see that WonderMaps would be useful for us at their young age and even when they go to college. WonderMaps looks wonderful.
Looks like this program would be a great addition to any social studies or history cirriculum. I would love to use this program with Mystery of History with my kids this fall!
wow, what a neat product! I love the ease of use that it shows.
I would use it with Mystery of History as well as State/US History
What a cool program. I would use this for the rest of my children’s school years. No more trying to waste time looking for a specific area on the net. It is really neat to have the history maps there as well.
Wow! This looks great! I would love to use it with Mystery of History. We will be doing book #2 next year. Also, we have been doing an around the world geography study. This would be very helpful to use with that.
Oh I would so love to have this to use with MOH and Daily Geography! I hope I win so I can use it this coming year, otherwise it is on my list for next year already since I have spent this years budgeted money for homeschooling our six children ages, almost 9, 6, 5, 3 1/2, 1 1/2 and one due in October.
My kids LOVE Geography so I would use this to continue to encourage their love and also along with our history curriculum. What a great product!
I would use it this next year with our new history curriculum, History of Mystery! I so want to teach the kids all the countries of the world and their capitals! Heck, I want to learn them all! 🙂
I would use Wonder Maps with Mystery of History. This is my second year homeschooling and my first year using this curriculum. Would love anything that would help me in teaching.
I am looking forward to starting Mystery of History Vol 1 next year and would LOVE to use WonderMaps with it. It would just be so versatile in our homeschooling that the old atlas would just sit on the shelf !! Just go to WonderMaps !! And in this technology age, so kid friendly !! My kids would love to be able to use the program and look up things all by theirselves !
I would love to use this with MOH 2!
We would love to use Wonder Maps with our History and Bible Studies! My kids love MAPS!! We like to use maps as a visual when we are learning about new places and people. Thanks for the offer!
Wow! Wondermaps would be perfect to include as a resource in a high school World Geography course I am working on!
THis is my first year with MOH and Illuminations. WonderMaps would be a great addition to this curriculum.
Wow! WonderMaps is an amazing computer program! I home school 2 boys who will be in 3rd & 6th grades this year. WonderMaps will allow me to adapt any map to their skill levels. I love the Thematic maps, too. We started a timeline that includes Biblical and Secular History but ran out of wall space! I’m exited to see the maps organized into 4 different time periods with the ability to overlap “then” and “now” maps to compare and contrast – what a great feature! I also organize a home school co-op where our History/Geography units have become very popular. We teach 3-4 different age groups a semester and the many layers in each category will be useful in preparing for each group. I could show the Teen Current Events group why the events they study in History are relevant to today’s news events. I participate in and co-teach a Ladies Bible Study group. They would also benefit from seeing the area we’re studying compared to current events. Many of these women haven’t been to school or looked at a map in years, and the ability to see where we are studying in the Bible compared to where that area is located on a modern map will enhance their understanding. Many of these women from both the Home School Assoc. & Bible Study own computers and will be interested in this program, too. I can’t afford the program right now, but if I don’t win I can see many yard sales in my summer plans! Thank you for the opportunity.
Oh my … this is a great product! I love the modern overlay feature … I’m one of those that needs to see how ancient compares to today. I would definitely use it with Mystery of History. I’ll be starting Vol. 1 in the fall with my youngest child.
My son loves maps–from the local theme park to highway maps to the thickest atlas he can find at our library. Often when he can’t find the exact map he’d like, he’ll create one on the floor out of Jenga blocks. He’d love the powerful features of Wondermaps.
WOW, homeschool teaching tools just keep getting better and better. This would make any mom look like a complete pro! We would use this on our Co-op, for projects and salt maps and fun stuff!
It gives me hope that I might myself not always be geographically challenged!!!!
WOW! There are so many wys to use this. I would use it for history and literature settings. I think the older kids would enjoy exploring with it on the computer as well.
What an awesome product! I would use it for history, geography, and Bible studies – really anytime we need a map. I hope to use Mystery of History soon as well, so those maps will come in handy. Thanks for creating this!
This looks fabulous! I would use WonderMaps with my 4 homeschooled children as we progress through the MOH cycle as well as learning their US and World geography. What fun! 😀
My middle schoolers would love to use this as they study AAH this coming year!
These maps are pretty cool, why hasn’t someone thought of this before?
It’s funny that I see this offer from you, because just the other day I was asking my 15 year old daughter, who will be a Junior this fall which history curriculum she wanted to use. I told her three different ones and what they were like and asked her how she learned the best. When she picked one, the maps were not included, so I asked a question about maps. Her response was, “Oh, I would like to do a Geography course of the current countries and continents.” I said that sounded good and that it didn’t necessarily have to be connected to the Middle Ages. So my brain is rummaging through what we have to do a geography course and what would be the best. My thought was, Oh we have The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide that someone gave us, but what are we going to use for maps, a cd of maps to print would be nice.” This would be a wonderful addition to our homeschool! My 15 year old could use it this fall and I was thinking of doing some geography with the MOH 2 with the younger ones. Hopefully it would get some use with 6 children still to homeschool. I am also hoping for many grandchildren who are homeschooling! We are going to have our first grandchild in a few weeks!
Blessings
WOW! There are so many ways to use this – the hard part would to be to pick only one at a time. To begin with, I would definitely use it for history and literature and Bible time.
WOW! Just love the possibilities!!
I have a 15 year old daughter who will be in 9th grade in the fall. She has severe dyslexia, so school can be quite challenging. We do map work, but she dislikes it because the searching for places and labeling them can be tedious for her. I think WonderMaps would make geography/history so much more fun and she might even explore some on her own!
Fabulous. where to begin. I would use this with my kids. When we learn about a country in our homeschool group we can then come home and print off maps relevant to the kids ages, and do our own map study of that country. At the moment we’re looking at Italy.
WonderMaps looks wonderful! This product would really enhance our Bible studies and make my prep work so much easier. I am constantly having to search our Bible Atlas, my Bible, and online for the maps needed. We love maps around here.
What a great idea, condensed multiple copies into one with flexible formating. And knowing all the maps required for our selected studies are included is the best. Thank you.
What an awesome program!!! If only we had these this year in our school planning …. HMMMMM I could easily incorporate WonderMaps into Bible Study, Science, History, Geography and more subjects I’m sure to review and test the locations we’ve studied. Great work developing such a program!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We just completed our first year of homeschooling and quickly discovered geography was a very weak area for our family. I have tried to incorporate geography WHEREVER I could (Bible, Literature, History, Math), but it required additional prep time on my part. WonderMaps will save me time–less time prepping and more time teaching! I love it!! Thank you BIP! Love your products!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Finally we have one stop source for our maps!
This looks like a terrific product! I teach Humanities classes at a homeschool tutorial, using MOH as our History spine. This would be so helpful in customizing maps for Bible, History, geography (of course) and even our literature. How wonderful to be able to combine them all into one map! Thanks for developing this.
THAT was amazing! Ideas for using this project were running through my head as I watched the video. Do I have to list only one?It would be really neat to have each child make a binder with the maps labeled and colored, then placed in page protectors. Behind that, place any learning activities about the location/historical period. I have spent so much time searching online for free maps to fit my needs, and have typically come up with FAR inferior maps that only partially serve my purpose! Great job! They truly are Wondermaps! 🙂
OHHHH!!!! pick me, pick me! I had not watched the tutorial before because I knew we couldn’t fit it into this year’s budget, but it looks incredible! I have decades of schooling ahead of me [baby #7 is due in Nov. and the oldest is just 10] and see the ease of use as a major plus. I put off geography until the last minute because i have to find the right atlas and the right maps to copy. It will be a must have before my oldest enters junior high school, for sure.
WOW!! Wonder Maps looks incredable! I can think of so many uses for it. I think I’d get the most out of it using it along with MOH 3 next year. I read the text to my kids while they color timeline figures now. Next year they can color timeline figures & Maps!!!
Thanks Tyler for making it so user friendly!! Homeschool moms need easy to use!!
God bless the “giveaway” heart. That’s so generous of you. I am planning to use it all along with History, Geography, Literature and also with a projector. Project the map on a wall covered with Paper or on a whiteboard and have the kids draw the outline and the overlay..Each kid can use a different colour marker..I have to think of ways to keep my teen to Kindergartener busy while having a baby in my hand…And who doesn’t love to draw on walls!!;)
Thank you for such a wonderful product.
This is such a wonderful product. I especially like the thematic section and the fact that I can print maps for our history curriculum. Hope we win!
Oh WOW! I had only briefly looked at Wonder Maps because I had recently purchased another map program. But, OH WOW! I am so glad I decided to click over and watch the tutorial. My middle ds was in the room and when he heard audio he came to watch over my shoulder, before long I had all of them watching. Even my oldest who graduated from college this year thought the Wonder Maps were awesome. My 13 yo ds, who is the reason I switched to MOH because he begged his daddy for it, is gifted, but because of his severe dyslexia, dysgraphia and ADHD generally hates any map work other than looking on a globe. But, when he watched the tutorial he asked me to purchase it so he could use it for all his MOH, Bible, locating places he learns in literature and he says he can even do maps for the scientist he learns about! Seeing his enthusiasm was contagious as it quickly spread to my dd who will be doing American History and even my little one can’t wait to give it a try because it will give him screen time:)! In short I think they/we would use it throughout our homeschooling for many subjects besides just history.
Thank you for creating such an awesome resource for the homeschooling community!
Love the word “CUSTOMIZABLE”!
Wonder Maps is looking like the ultimate in map study.
No more searching the internet for just the “right map” to coordinate with our history studies.
It is here- finally!
These look wonderful! I would use them for all of our subjects as needed. Anytime we would like to find out about a place in history or in reading literature or in current events.
I would definitely use it at home with my 3 children – but I also teach 4th thru 6th graders the Mystery of History (Volume 3 this year) at a local homeshool co-op and would like to use it there.
Wow! We love maps around here and frequently quiz each other at meal time. These maps would be a way to add more challenges to our quizzing.
WonderMaps would be a fabulous tool to use along with MOH! My visual learners would get to “put it all together” by seeing where all this history took place. It would also provide for great review since you can pick what features to include on the map, which means you can also pick what features the child will fill in himself.
We just discovered MOH over this last yer and absolutely love it! We are going to use MOH3 this next year and AAH when we are finished with that. Having this map set would make it easier for me to show the kids so many different aspects of history. We have been studying the geography of the United States and will be switching to the world within the next couple of months. I would also be able to use the map set with science and literature. Really the only place I wouldn’t use it is math (and if I could I would probably try).
Wonder Maps would be a staple in our homeschool!!! There are so many ways we could use this; for quizzes, lapbook projects and in our study with Mystery of History!! Thank you for developing this amazing and versatile product!
Not only would we use these maps as printouts for school and bible lessons, we would also use them while still on the computer in the program, so the kids could see the contrasts of the different layers and how things look different on the same map depending on the time period or area of focus. They could also navigate the program on their own for research projects. Looks fantastic!
This is fabulous! I love the versatility and the design of the maps generated by the program. I use a lot of maps in my teaching, but I spend hours finding the right one on the Internet. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this software!
Wow! I would use this with our Mystery of History, quizzes, and with current events. I can see the kids running to the computer now to find out where a place is located. Thank you because I’ve looked for something like this for years!
I am SO excited to see a product like this! It is EXACTLY what we need to create a “hook” on which to hang our history knowledge. I love that I can teach my kids about a period in history, then easily show them a map from the time we are studying. The fact that I can magically eliminate certain details and have them color/label it themselves makes it just that much more versatile as a teaching tool. I had recently purchased another Map program and I have been disappointed in it, especially considering the cost. Boy, am I kicking myself now! 🙁
I am so excited about WonderMaps. They look wonderful and I love how each map can be “tweaked” to fit the day’s requirements.
This is our first year of homeschooling and we have used MOH as our history program. We have done a couple of the mapping exercises, but would love to do more. I just found it so hard to find maps this year that would work easily for my 3rd & 1st grader without getting them frustrated.
My kids pour over the world map and history maps that we have. (Wierd – I know). They are always looking up countries and places they hear about on the news. To have interactive maps (on the computer no less) that they could use would be such a huge blessing!
Oh, wow! Wonder Maps is amazing! Last year was our first year home schooling and I wasted what felt like hours and hours hunting for maps to use in the various regions we studied, both for teaching and for testing. Wonder Maps has every map we could ever need all in one place. Awesome! And it’s perfect for what I wanted to find last year. We have a movie room set up with a projector and big screen, that happens to be connected to a computer. I would love to set this program up in there and use the big screen four our geography lessons! =)
I love this! I would use it for history and Bible.
Wonder Maps looks incredible! What a great resource to have all these maps in one place! One of my children loves maps and seeing where everything he reads about takes place. The other doesn’t so much like maps, but hopefully these will encourage him.
AWESOME !!!! I am way to excited about the wondermaps. Already planning what and how to use them. My kids favorite subject is MOH and they would love this too!!! Thanks for all you do to help the Homeschooling sommunity!!!!
As well as using WonderMaps as we go through MOH and AAH, I would print maps to accompany geography-related living books, like Around the World in 80 Days, and Holling C. Holling’s books, so we can map our way through the books!
Wow! I LOVE the looks of this. I have struggled for years searching internet sites, having to make copies and enlarge or otherwise try to make a map fit my needs. This looks SO easy to get just what you want quickly. I will be using Illuminations 2 this coming school year. This will be very handy in our history studies.
Wonder Maps will give my kids one more way to learn creatively on their own initiative. They already love mapping assignments, but they’ll love the customizability of Wonder Maps. This fall we are on to MOH 2 and AAH, so we’ll have lots of opportunities to see how this cool program works.
If only Wonder Maps could also do science experiments, listen to piano practice, check math, fold laundry . . . Could we get Tyler working on that too please? 🙂
I had just added these to my school wish list after seeing the video. I LOVE the different overlay options for each map and think we would use them regularly. I also find that my copier doesn’t pick up some of the lighter lines on some maps, but if I print directly from a printer, it works fine.
Fantastic product! I love that one could choose a historical map and then also print one with a modern overlay. I’m also excited at how customizable these are. Looking forward to using these in our history, Bible and literature studies!!
This looks like a fabulous product! We are moving from Mystery of History Vol I to Vol 2 in the upcoming school year. Having Wonder Maps would certainly help in our studies of history. With two kids in 4th grade, one in 6th, 2 in 7th and one in 11th, Wonder Maps would benefit our homeschool studies for years to come. Thank you for developing this product. May God continue to bless you in the work that you’re doing to make our homeschooling better and more “alive”.
These are great and would be so helpful for teaching multi-age children. More details for older, basic outlines for the youngest. Not only would these maps coordinate with MOH and ILL but they would also work for our missionary studies. What a wonderful resource!
This would be a wonderful asset to use with my oldest who is doing MOH 3, plus I can get more use with my younger kids in our history and geography studies. This looks like a wonderful program!
This would be GREAT for the multi-level schooling family. My 4-year-old could use maps that are colored with borders and names included. She could then look for the right letters (she always wants a map!). My 7-year-old could use the maps with NO colors (so SHE could color them), with borders and names included. My 10-year-old could use more overlays, but leave off the names of countries and cities. My 12-year-old would be filling in everything!
The instructions for mapping are already different for different ages…this would just make it easier for ME!!
So exciting!
I think these will be great for being able to adjust what each student needs to put on their map based on age yet still have all of the information on it. My 8th grader would get to put it all on, my 5th grader some of it and my 2nd grader just the highlights and Mom wouldn’t need to fill in the rest 🙂 Great product and will be wonderful to use with MOH and AAH.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! I have already been through MOH 1-3 with my daughter, this would have been perfect to have during that time. I will be starting again with my son soon. I would love to have this as we go through all 4 volumes with him. (yes, so excited to see volume 4 when it is completed further down the road!!) He would love to have the black & white maps and then look at the color maps to make his look the same. I would also love to use this as a “search and find” type activity. Using this along with our bible studies would be wonderful as well! I have been wanting a great geography program to use as a 1/2 credit for my daughter in high school. With this, the possibilities would be endless!
I am so excited about this product!!!! It is amazing.
oops! In my excitement I forgot to say how I would use it. I love the idea of being able to overlay current maps with “old” ones. I love books that do that. Now I can do it with all types of maps.
I can tell you three ways we would use this. My younger son needs a course in geography. WonderMaps would give him a chance to play while learning as well. My older son has been a geography buff, so he would enjoy playing with various printouts. I would use the Modern Overlay feature as we study history. I would really help put things in perspective…history as it relates to us today. AWESOME!
We are a notebooking family, so we would use these maps for any of our history or literature studies. This would make geography so easy as a tie-in instead of a stand-alone subject.
We are a notebooking family, so we would use this with all of our history and literature studies. WonderMaps would make geography so easy, as a tie-in instead of a stand-alone subject.
Maggie and team – WonderMaps seems to be an incredibly robust and highly functional tool…in other words AWESOME! My 13 yr old son has developed a love of geography, and I think he would spend a good deal of time just exploring all of the features. My favorite feature, which I think we would frequently use, is the historical maps with the modern overlay. Y’all thought of everything!
THis is perfect timing. I have been looking for a map making software. With my desire for helping my son learn all 50 states and develop some “map sense” this would be a perfect product. Thank you for creating it.
Wondermaps would be the perfect thing for us! We love history and my son is constantly asking me to show him maps/globes. There are so many ways I could use wondermaps to tie our studies together and make the lesson come alive!
What a “bright idea” to create a product like this! We love jig-saw puzzles and I would love the opportunity to print cut and re-make these maps as fun learning lessons for all the family. We live in New Zealand and need to work hard at being aware of the rest of the world. This product would be easy to use, as it can be printed many times. It can be used for all age ranges and for all topics! Wow, what a product!
J: I’d use it to teach my siblings the ranges and migratory patterns of various bird species. Also to follow along with our history and geography. It would be fun to use it like we do with google earth to pick places and then make maps to plan out the route on how to get there. R added that he’d use it to make maps for planning out his army attacks.
Aaron said he’d like to use it to find his way to other countries and to learn all the states.
This is cool! I’ve been looking for maps to use in our history and geography lessons. My dd LOVES maps so I think this would be perfect for her! Thankyou!
WOW! What a comprehensive program for Geography, Historical maps, Biblical maps and more!! I have grown to love History through homeschooling and learning how God’s plan has fit together from the beginning. This would be a great resource to enhance our studies.
Awesome! I have been drooling over WonderMaps for a month now (and saving my pennies)! I am SO tired of searching the internet to find a map that MIGHT work or photocopying maps in books for my kids to color on! This would save me tons of time and energy that can be spent learning with the kiddos! Thanks for the chance to win it!
What a wonderful tool!! Our family will be doing the My Father’s World – Exploring Countries and Cultures curriculum next year and this software would work *perfectly* with that curriculum. What a blessing it would be to have this tool! 🙂
Wow, what a great idea. I always try to find at least one map each month to go along with our studies usually by searching the internet. This will be great to have them all in one place and customizable. Great job.
This looks like a wonderful product. I would use it to teach my children mapping as that is what fell by the wayside this year during MOH 1.
I love to have my children fill in blank maps of what we are studying–states, countries, wars, etc.-because it cements the geography in their mind better. But historical maps are difficult to find, so I would especially use the Wonder Maps for adding historical maps to our history journey. This new product immediately caught my attention, as I have over the years tried to “create” maps that I can’t find. This program would make my life much easier!
I have always had a strong desire to use more mapping in our homeschool endeavors, but it has always felt so cumbersome. The map was never exactly right, or my daughter couldn’t find the right place, or I’d finally find an appropriate map two *weeks* after we’d covered the topic! With Wondermaps, I think geography would finally have the linchpin resource we’ve been waiting for. Can’t wait to try it!
This looks like a tremendous timesaving tool in compiling out history, Latin and even Science notebooks. We like to have a map to mark our progress as we travel through historical events. LAst years Apologia animal studies had us marking our map as we Safaried through all 7 continents. As we continue our Latin history tie in, we would use a wonder map to note the worldwide Roman influenceS as they conquered the known world.
What a great looking product!! I wish I had it right now to make maps for our unit study of Frank Lloyd Wright houses. What a wonderful resource. Well done! Obviously the possibilities for it’s usage are endless.
Oh wow!!! This is awesome! I’m using Mystery of History and All American History so this program would fit in wonderful with our use of maps. My daughter has also been studying the US so I could use the modern overlay feature to show her how the states started out. Excellent job on this new product!!
I knew WonderMaps would be awesome–it is from BIP, but wow! I am so glad you “made” us watch the video. I love that there are so many layers. The feature of seeing historical and modern boundaries is so cool! I could print different versions of the same map for the different ages/abilities of my children. We are discovering that maps can be used as part of every subject. Bible, history and geography are the obvious ones. We have also been known to pull out maps when studying artists and composers, concrete examples for math problems, and as illustrations/aids in writing. We love maps and would love to win WonderMaps. Thanks for doing this giveaway and congratulations on winning a TOS Blue Ribbon award.
What a great product! I plan on going through all of the MoH books with my 4 children and would use this product over and over to accompany Mystery of History.
I’m so excited to find this product! We happened across some historical maps showing, for example, the expanse of the Byzantine Empire. We colored in the map to highlight the empire and then stapled the map into our Book of Time. We have so many more maps that we want to do. For example, we really want a map of Europe before and after WWI. Again, these maps will be stapled into ou Book of Time. Can’t wait to get a copy of your CD!
I get a buzz when the children have been working on something, or we’ve been reading a book together, then their curiosity leads them to find where an event has taken place. They’ll happily be quite inquisitive about the location and wonder what the terrain is like.
I still remember my eldest’s amazement when he finally ‘discovered’ that he could find Egypt on the map so quickly. Now, a lot older, checking out the atlas to find where international news events are occurring helps make the real world more .. real! Maps that can be printed out to suit the project at hand would definitely be a bonus, with room to make personal notes, flag other events occuring at the same time, etc. There are countless possibilities to how this resource can be used.
Your product seems to provide for so many educational avenues that expands across a huge age range; even adult studies will be enhanced using this. No wonder you were so honoured with Blue Ribbon Award from TOS. Well done!
This is pretty neat … I’ve never been inspired to study geography and it is a weak subject of mine. Now, as a homeschooling mom I feel an urgent need to educate myself so I can teach my kids.
We’ll be diving in to MOH 1 this fall and I admit I am a little intimidated. I feel that this program would help – with all the maps at my fingertips and easily customized. Plus this is a resource I will be able to use for years to come!
I have three sons at very different levels, a high schooler, an 8th grader, and a 3rd grader. I would use WonderMaps to let them learn at their own levels and also to enable my youngest to dive in because he loves maps so much! We are long-time users of MOH as well as All-American history so this would go great with it!
As a former teacher and an unreformed curriculum addict, I spent years acquiring my favorite teaching supplies. I love maps and had gathered and pieced together all sorts of maps to use teaching history and geography to my own family. Sadly, just over a year ago, our house burned down and I lost all of my school materials. The insurance process has been difficult and I have not been able to replace most of my supplies.
This would give me an opportunity to replace many maps and books with one simple program. I wouldn’t have to take bits and pieces from an assortment of books, but would be able to customize maps instantly. It also saves the hassle of having to keep track of so many different resources since everything is so self-contained. Thank you so much for developing this.
My daughter would LOVE to have this software so I am entering in hopes of giving her a chance to win it!
It’s amazing. So simple. I’m started over this year with a first grader after my 3rd daughter graduated the year before. Currently we are doing Passport to the Word by Craig Froman at Christian Home School Hub. I’m positive that Wondermaps will received much use in the coming years as we notebook, lapbook or just study the world, past and present.
I was just ready to purchase some maps for geography and then I saw this. It really looks amazing and fun to use!
We’ve done a lot of mapping in conjunction with our history studies, and there were times I wished I could have more information already on the map. This would be a great way to get exactly what we need. Very cool product! Way to go Tyler!
What an answer to “if only we could do this with the map” – outstanding! What I love about this product is that during the video features tutorial I was saying out loud “wow, that is awesome” and then feature after feature was showcased and the product went well beyond what I expected, this is rare and very welcomed into this day and age.
The possibilities on how to use this product are really endless and not only open to the imagination of how we as teachers can use them , but to the students themselves. As for one of the ways we would use the program, I would have to say for the “ah ha” moments that we as parents and teachers love to see, for the lesson to come alive and a hunger to learn awakened.
Thank you for producing such a great product that will impact a generation.
I would love to have WonderMaps!
It would be a great addition to our history curriculum…we are starting with Mystery of History 1 this fall. I am a bit intimidated as I come from a traditional school setting and that’s all I know. But I believe it’s the way for us to go and adding WonderMaps to it would be fantastic!
Afer our first year of Classical Conversations, I am realizing how much young students can memorize and learn. I had been hoping to find a good set of blank paper maps for practice with our Classical Conversations geography memory work; Wonder Maps is more than I ever dreamed of finding! So cool!
I would use it with moh for my child that likes computer interaction
I plan on using the Illuminations curriculum this fall with my 4 kids. This Wondermaps program would be a HUGE asset to our geography studies!!!
We will use the interactive features to look at historical places and compare them to today. Then print out and refer to and lable as we read our living books. This is an awesome tool and I look forward to using it with my kids.
This is my first experience with bright ideas. After completing homeschooling in middle school, MOH has been
recommended to me by a friend who just finished volume 1. This fall I will be attempting to homeschool my
highschooler using Illuminations following the MOH volume 2 program. We would love to have an opportunity to
have an interactive map program to go along with it. YIKES!! Highschool sounds serious!
This is fantastic! The biggest problem I have had with MOH mapping is that it is hard to find the exact locations of towns and borders. With this program, I would take off the town and region names that the particular lesson is focusing on but leave the dot (for the town) or line (for the border) and print copies for my children. During class, I could bring up the unaltered map on the compter for the children to see, get rid of any other details we aren’t looking at at that time, and then let them fill in the labels. The children still get to work with the map -as opposed to just looking at a map – but won’t have to struggle to find where to draw the line or place the dot. They would still have other important references on their own map to examine but not have difficulty finding the locations on the “bare bones” version on the computer they are copying from (and we *know* that anything on the computer is more fun than anything on a flat piece of paper!) After the labels are added, the version on the computer could then be added to to make any additional points to the lesson, like what the political borders in that area are now. This is not something that we necessarily want in the history notebook right now but would still like our children to be aware of. Why waste paper to make copies of a map only to make such a quick point? This program will make geography so much more easy to incorporate in so many subjects!
We would most definitely use Wondermaps daily alongside our history and literature studies. I would love to have one place to go to look up any map we may need, no matter what time period or region. Oh, to not feel the frustration of flipping through multiple atlases only to not find the map I am wanting! Wondermaps looks to be my solution!
My kids love to look at maps and do map work, and the features on Wondermaps makes it so versatile. Now I no longer have to spend HOURS searching the web for a usable map for our history lessons!
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I am a homeschooling mom of my 4 + 1 niece. ranging in ages 2-13. I would use this in our homeschool. I could use this for the little ones, making montessori style maps. And gradually add more details as they get older.