Posts tagged maps
Life is calling. How far will you go?
I <3 maps and you will too!
I taught my Form One’s their first geography lesson today. I’m not sure if they learned geography in primary school, so maybe it was their first geography lesson ever.
To start, I had them draw a map of the world in their exercise books. The results were… interesting. Haha. I mean, they don’t see images constantly like kids growing up in America do… they don’t watch TV, they have limited textbooks, etc. So most of them didn’t really know what it was supposed to look like. Some of them just drew a map of Malawi, which I thought was interesting.
Anyway, one popular Peace Corps activity undertaken by volunteers is the World Map Project. I am definitely going to try and do this at my school with my new geography students. By the end of this term these kids will KNOW that America is not in Europe.
it’s coming along slowly but surely
Where do Peace Corps Volunteers go?
Click to explore our interactive map of the 76 countries where our Volunteers currently serve
This is the first World Map Project map, the beginning of a standard Peace Corps activity. Maps are still being created today around the world. Dominican Republic - 1988
Come to the Smithsonian Folklike Festival to see Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Barbara Jo White demonstrate the World Map Project she created!
