Mapmaking with Children: The Ultimate Sense-of-Place Guide

Inspire Meaningful Mapmaking in the Classroom

Mapmaking with Children offers a transformative, experience-based approach to teaching geography. Unlike rote memorization, this guide empowers students to explore their own backyards, neighborhoods, and communities to build a deep sense of place and spatial awareness.

What You’ll Learn

• Developmentally appropriate mapmaking projects for elementary learners
• How to nurture emotional connections to local environments
• Strategies for teaching scale, direction, and geographic relationships
• Hands-on activities including raised relief maps and contour mapping

Perfect For

• Social studies, science, language arts, and math teachers
• Educators seeking creative, interdisciplinary curriculum ideas
• Anyone wanting to strengthen students’ visual literacy and spatial reasoning

Bring geography to life through authentic, engaging exploration. Order your copy now and elevate your classroom with inspired mapmaking!