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 Teach your students to draw detailed world maps without using an atlas!
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- 12 Mapping the World by Heart presents world geography in manageable chunks. Students learn to draw and label locational geography of countries, land, and water. Your students will:  | Be able to read any map, regardless of differences in scale, symbols, projection, etc. | | Easily use an atlas | | Understand latitude and longitude | | Become aware of the relationship of geography to cultures, global issues and themselves | | Be able to use a globe to explain seasons, the rotation of the earth and the tropics |
PRODUCT FEATURES | Enough lesson plans to last the entire school year | | Content goals and learning objectives |
Mapping the World by Heart, the Classroom Kit includes: | 30 copies of each of the nine region maps | | Blank grid maps including 2 Mercator projection maps, 2 Equirectagular projection maps, and 2 Robinson projection maps | | Comprehensive Teacher's Guide | | Introductory video |
Mapping the World by Heart Lite includes: | 1 copy of each of the nine region maps | | 2 Mercator projection blank grid maps, 2 Equirectagular projection blank grid maps, and 2 Robinson projection blank grid maps | | Comprehensive Teacher's Guide | | Introductory video |
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David J. Smith | | |
 | | David J. Smith has 26 years of experience teaching geography, history, and English in public and private schools. The U.S. Department of Education honored him in 1992 with their "Breaking the Mold" Award for this curriculum, and that, along with feature stories on The Today Show, and in Time Magazine, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, The International Educator, and other media, propelled him out of the classroom and into a full-time consulting practice. Since 1992, he has given workshops, seminars, and addresses in 30 countries and 38 states, both on "Mapping the World by Heart" curriculum and on geography and geographic literacy generally, focusing on what he refers to as "world-mindedness across the curriculum". For more information please visit www.mapping.com. | |
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   |  | Teacher's Guide, lesson plans, reproducibles, blank grid maps, and blank outline maps. | |  |
   | Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards Honorable Mention | | U.S. Department of Education "for Breaking the Mold" Award |
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