Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years (1ST ed.) by David Sobel pike with a grey background

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Having established himself as a picture-book creator unafraid of taking the long view

School Library Journal 05/01/2003 (EAN 9780060510558

Tracy McKenzie reminds us that history is so much more than knowledge about the past

Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years (1ST ed.) by David Sobel pike with a grey backgroundThe 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,