Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years (1ST ed.) by David Sobel Appalachia A potato-growing box

A potato-growing box

seeds and vegetables that Shakespeare mentions in his plays and poems

and smoking wood)

and explanations of why things work the way they do

Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years (1ST ed.) by David Sobel Appalachia A potato-growing boxThe 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 presents an inspired alternative. 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,