Globalization Isn’t a New Thing: Teaching the Concept with Historical Examples

Think back to a moment when you as a student sat in a social studies class and struggled to spit out a memorized date of an important event your teacher said would be integral to remember.

“The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map.

Mental maps are representations of what a person “knows” about a place.

“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.

Are you searching for ways to make your social studies lessons relate to the lives of your students? Make memorable connections between national trends in history, economics, culture, politics, and geography with these place-based primary sources.

My last post was about quality novels to teach in the American history classroom.

“It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.

This geography activity makes maps applicable to student lives by getting students out of their chairs and interacting with the material.

Here you see two examples of map projections of our incredible world.