An annotated list of children's books that are high quality, unbiased, and non-stereotypical portrayals of Arabs. It is also a collection that brings the native voices of the MENA region to elementary readers

Students can learn a great deal about the economic, social, or strategic importance of a place when they examine maps, such as the featured 1910 Sanborn map of South San Francisco.

Have you seen the "free stuff webpage" at ODT Maps? It offers . . . Nine - free map postcards Five - golden circles* Four - NCGE books Free - NCGE world-outline map masters (Major Countries, and World Outline) Two - videos on YouTube One - article The ODT USA Equal Area Map and one chapter from the book Seeing Through MapsAnd a partridge in a pear tree!* Check back every month to see new items posted regularly at manywaystoseetheworld.org, even after the winter holidays are over. "Please share the link with any teachers, students and map fans that you know. Once supplies are gone, the…

Like traditional films, animated films can be used with great success to teach authentic geography at all grade levels.

As a fifth grade teacher, I get to teach many subjects such as math, language arts, and science, but my true love is social studies. Because Virginia has not established social studies standards specifically for the fifth grade, my school division developed a local course called, My Place in Time and Space.1 One compelling (conceptual, divergent) question in the course is How am I connected to other spaces and places? Two supporting questions (answerable with facts or opinions) are Where have I been? and Where do I want to go in the world? To help my students engage with these inquiries, I…

The authors provide the reader an opportunity to see how second-grade children can use a twelfth-century painting as historical evidence to identify transportation modes, economic activities, and cultural features of Bianjing, an ancient Chinese city. They compare Bianjing with their community using modern mapping technology. Through this approach, art, history, geography, economics, technology, and civics are integrated into an engaging inquiry lesson.