{"id":223584,"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-children%e2%80%99s-literature-me-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/223584","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Geography with Children\u2019s Literature:  Me On The Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2232\/me-on-the-mapjpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2233\" title=\"me-on-the-map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/me-on-the-map.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"me-on-the-map.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780517885574\">Me On The Map<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780517885574\">,<\/a> written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduplace.com\/kids\/tnc\/mtai\/sweeney.html\">Joan Sweeney<\/a> and illustrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&amp;rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cp_27%3AAnnette%20Cable&amp;field-author=Annette%20Cable&amp;page=1\">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 &#8220;special place on the map&#8221;.\u00a0 She ends with an understanding\u00a0 that&#8230;&#8221;in rooms, in houses, on streets, in towns, in countries all over the world, everybody has their own special place on the map&#8221;.\u00a0 It is a great little book and a nice way to introduce the skills of mapping to young students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThe book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Me-Map-Joan-Sweeney\/dp\/0517700956\">Me On The Map<\/a><em>, <\/em>may<em> <\/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 The little girl makes her mapping projects exciting and fun which is an essential attitude when teaching students important skills.\u00a0<em> <\/em>Me On The Map<em>, <\/em>makes many connections to the Virginia History and Social Science Standards of Learning including, Geography K.4 and K.5 as well as\u00a0 Geography 1.4 c and 1.5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.nationalgeographic.com\/maps\/map-machine#s=r&amp;c=43.74999999999998,%20-99.71000000000001&amp;z=4\">National Geographic Map Machine\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 This online resource from National Geographic lets you plug in a specific location on the globe to discover, you can also zoom in showing details such as street and zoom out giving students the big picture of the Earth.\u00a0 This is an awesome site for anyone but especially young students to gain a perspective of their physical place in the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk\/worldmapper\/index.html\">World Mapper<\/a>\u00a0 Allows students to view animated maps of different areas of interest, there are over 700 maps to view and 366 are available as PDF posters to print and hang in a classroom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingideas.co.uk\/geography\/map.htm\">Map drawing skills<\/a> A helpful lesson plan for ages (7-11) and (5-7), gives ideas on how to teach map drawing skills starting with mapping student&#8217;s own classrooms.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/hga\/Lessons\/mapmake\/MeonMap.html\">Me On The Map Lessons\u00a0 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Me-Map-Joan-Sweeney\/dp\/0517700956\">Me On The Map<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author: <\/strong>Joan Sweeney<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrator:<\/strong>\u00a0 Annette Cable<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:\u00a0 <\/strong>Crown Publishers, Inc.<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:\u00a0 <\/strong>1996<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:\u00a0 <\/strong>32 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:\u00a0 <\/strong>Pre-K &#8211; 1st grade<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:\u00a0 <\/strong>0517885573<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me On The Map, written by Joan Sweeney and illustrated by Annette Cable, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}