Mapmaking with Children.
In addition to appealing to social studies teachers, this book will be of interest to science teachers, language arts teachers, and math teachers looking for new ways to invigorate the curriculum..
Mapmaking, as Sobel uses it, has relevance across the curriculum.
Vivid illustrations of the students work are provided throughout to let you observe each stage of development.
Eventually, once students are older, they explore the nation, the world, even the solar system, creating raised relief maps and contour maps to develop visual literacy and spatial reasoning skills.
Gradually, they move on to their neighborhood, developing a sense of place, scope, and perspective.
In the beginning, students stay close to home, mapping their known world.
To that end, his book identifies each stage of development, presenting relevant theoretical issues and several appropriate projects.
The development of emotional bonds and cognitive skills needs to go hand in hand in my approach to developmentally appropriate social studies and geography.
with these affective endeavors as a foundation, I then gradually start to focus on scale, location, direction, and geographic relationships.
As Sobel explains, In the beginning, children\'s maps represent their experiences of beauty, secrecy, adventure, and comfort.
Maintaining that there is no substitute for hands-on experience, David Sobel places the initial emphasis on local projects, projects that begin in students own backyards and communities, projects that provide a sense of place.
Mapmaking with Children presents an inspired alternative.
Sense-of-place Education for the Elementary Years The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conceptual top-down model that ignores children\'s interests.
Mapmaking with Children
