The Passport Club is an individualized, sequential, geography program for schools. Its main purpose is to help students learn some, or all of the world's countries over the course of a school year, and to meet essential academic learning requirements for geography. The purpose of the program is to get students excited about geography. Each month a study map is sent home via backpack mail with a list of countries to study - studying is done at home. The students memorize the location of each country. "Check Day" is held once each month, before school. Parent volunteers ask students to locate on a blank world map the location of the countries they have studied that month. Students then receive colorful and interesting postage stamps from the countries they have studied. These are the "visas" that are placed in their "passports." Passports are held between check days by the coordinator and are sent home at the end of the year. For more information, download the flyer found at the bottom of this page, check out the website at www.thepassportclub.net or contact  Joel and Erin Schaefer at Schaefers5@me.com.