How It Works
 

Each student is issued a passport at the start of the school year.  They have five levels to choose from, beginning with the introductory Level One, and going up to the "Geo-Whiz" Level Five. 

If they choose Level One, students will learn 40 countries and the seven continents by the end of the school year. 

If they choose Level Five, they will learn all the world's countries plus forty capital cities, the continents, oceans, seas, deserts and mountain ranges.  They will also have completed at least ten special geography related projects during the year.

Students are checked by parent or grandparent volunteers at the end of each month, and receive postage stamps in their passports from some of the countries they have learned.  They receive a new study map with different countries for the next month and the process is repeated.

Teachers agree that the program is most successful if it is mandatory, at least at Level One, for all students, and if ten minutes are taken in class twice a week for study.

The program improves with age.  After the first year, students receive both new and review material every month.  Graduating grade school students who moved up a level every year since First Grade will have confidence, and a very high retention of world geography to start them off on the right foot for middle school.

The Passport Club can also be used as a refresher course for older students.