{"id":1939,"date":"2009-11-01T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1939"},"modified":"2009-11-01T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:29:16","slug":"teaching-geography-with-childrens-literature-as-the-crow-flies-a-first-book-of-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/01\/teaching-geography-with-childrens-literature-as-the-crow-flies-a-first-book-of-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Geography with Children&#8217;s Literature: As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/10\/images4.jpg\" title=\"images4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/10\/images4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"images4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/As-Crow-Flies-First-Book\/dp\/0689717628\">As the Crow Flies<\/a> written by Gail Hartman and illustrated by Harvey Stevenson is a great way to introduce maps to young children.<\/p>\n<p>The book follows the paths of an eagle, a rabbit, a crow, a horse, and a gull.\u00a0 At the end of each animal&#8217;s journey a simple\u00a0map illustrates the places the animal has visited.\u00a0 &#8220;AS THE RABBIT HOPS. A path winds around a farmhouse, past a shed, to a garden where the sweet greens grow.&#8221; On the facing page the author shows &#8220;THE RABBIT&#8217;S MAP&#8221;, a simply illustrated map with a path from &#8220;my house&#8221;, to the &#8220;farmhouse&#8221;, to the &#8220;shed&#8221;, to the &#8220;garden&#8221;. \u00a0At the end of the book the author follows the moon as it shines on each of the animals paths, including the rabbit, &#8220;It shines on the garden near the farmhouse in the country.&#8221; \u00a0On the last pages the paths of all the animals come together to form one big map titled &#8220;THE BIG MAP&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book would work well when introducing students to maps as part of a Geography unit.\u00a0 It is best suited for a kindergarten or 1st grade classroom. The concepts included in the book work with lessons where students will describe the relative location of people, places, and things by using positional words, use simple maps to develop an awareness that a map is a drawing of a place to show where things are located, describe places referenced in stories and real-life situations, and develop an awareness that maps and globes show a view from above, show things in smaller size, and show the position of objects (SOL K.3, K.4a,b and K.5a,b,c).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uen.org\/Lessonplan\/preview.cgi?LPid=10687\">UEN website<\/a> has four good classroom activities for developing map skills.<\/li>\n<li>Have students create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/resources\/ngo\/education\/ideask4\/k4story.html\">story map<\/a> using a story they have read, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canteach.ca\/elementary\/wenviron6.html\">make a map of their school<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A geography unit plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/coreknowledge.org\/CK\/resrcs\/lessons\/K98Investigating.htm\">Our Place in the World<\/a>, designed to create awareness of city, state, country, continent, and world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong> Author: <\/strong>Gail Hartman<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Illustrator: <\/strong>Harvey Stevenson<strong><br \/>\nPublisher:<\/strong> Aladdin <strong><br \/>\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 1993<strong><br \/>\nPages:<\/strong> 32<strong><br \/>\nGrade Range:<\/strong> K-2<strong><br \/>\nISBN:<\/strong> 978-0689717628<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As the Crow Flies written by Gail Hartman and illustrated by Harvey Stevenson is a great way to introduce maps to young children. The book follows the paths of an eagle, a rabbit, a crow, a horse, and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/01\/teaching-geography-with-childrens-literature-as-the-crow-flies-a-first-book-of-maps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-geography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}