Teaching WITH Maps

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Teaching WITH Maps

• TAAS Analysis mapped to TAKS What are we not
  doing right?
• Geography and History What can we do?
• Teaching WITH Maps At least 15 ideas

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TAAS -- TAKS

• What is the problem?

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Geography and History

• It is impossible

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Geography and History

• Recreate the geography of the past
• What was the geographic context?
• Human and physical characteristics?
• Transportation routes, access to other places,
  cultural orientation, links and barriers
• Human processes how did people live in their
  world?

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Geography and History

• How has it changed?
• How did the geographic context influence and
  shape events?
• How did people perceive the world (and its
  geography) then?

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Teaching WITH Maps

• See the geographic context by teaching with maps
• And personal accounts, data, pictures, literature
  and poems, songs, technological artifacts
• HOW?

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Teaching WITH Maps

• Constantly link what with where
• And what it is like at that place (human and
  physical characteristics)

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Teaching WITH Maps

• Use maps of all kinds to teach
• e.g., battles election results where presidents
  were born explorers routes growth of US cities
  over time expansion of roads railroads canals
  location of key economic activities ethnic
  distribution patterns religions and migration
  patterns physical features and so on

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Teaching WITH Maps

• Have students make maps of historical information
• Story maps, e.g., for study aids
• Formal thematic maps, e.g., slave vs free states
  at different periods of time distribution of
  colonies by imperial power in 1800, 1850, 1900
  1950 and 2000 largest world cities in 1800,
  1850, 1900, 1950, and 2000

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