{"id":2232,"date":"2010-01-24T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2232"},"modified":"2010-01-24T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:46:31","slug":"teaching-geography-with-childrens-literature-me-on-the-map-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/24\/teaching-geography-with-childrens-literature-me-on-the-map-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Geography with Children’s Literature: Me On The Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Me On The Map<\/a>,<\/a> written by Joan Sweeney<\/a> and illustrated by Annette Cable<\/a>, is a colorfully illustrated introduction to the subject of maps and geography.\u00a0 It is a story about a little girl and how she locates her physical place in the world .\u00a0 Her curiosity of her place on the Earth leads her to illustrate maps of her room, her house, her street and step by step she maps out the world complete with all seven continents.\u00a0 After she finishes, the little girl explains her steps to the reader while she backtracks through all of her maps to show how she found her very own “special place on the map”.\u00a0 She ends with an understanding\u00a0 that…”in rooms, in houses, on streets, in towns, in countries all over the world, everybody has their own special place on the map”.\u00a0 It is a great little book and a nice way to introduce the skills of mapping to young students.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong>
\nThe book, Me On The Map<\/a>, <\/em>may <\/em>serve as a great resource when introducing geography to elementary school students in lower grade levels.\u00a0 There are many opportunities to use this book as a reference when implementing activities about mapping to young students.\u00a0 <\/em>This book can be used to enrich learning of simple maps, describing places in real-life situations, teaching students how to show the position of objects, a view from above and scaling items to a smaller size.\u00a0 Me On The Map could also be used when students are developing map skills and identifying shapes of the United States and Virginia and when students are learning to construct maps of familiar areas using basic map skills.\u00a0 Me On The Map, <\/em>makes many connections to the VA SOL (K.4,K.5, 1.4 c and 1.5).<\/p>\n

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