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"Making" Civics and Designing Inquiry: Integrative, Project-Based Learning in Pre-Kindergarten
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Wargo, Jon M.; Alvarado, Jasmine – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
For a pre-kindergarten (preK) class, designing a 3-D map of a newly constructed playground offered authentic opportunities to participate, deliberate, and solve an authentic problem. Responding to the compelling question--"How do we build community spaces that are welcoming to, representative of, and sustaining for all community…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Active Learning, Inquiry, Student Projects
Bridging the Academic-Public Divide in GIS and Cartography: A Framework for Integrating Community Partnerships in the Classroom
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Barcus, Holly R.; Muehlenhaus, Birgit – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
In undergraduate geography programs in the United States there is increasing demand for students to be prepared for real-world project management and to possess strong GIS technical skills and cartographic communication skills upon graduation. There is, however, limited time and opportunity within the framework of traditional undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Cartography, Geographic Information Systems
Seeing One's Place with New Eyes: The Role of Map-Making in Place-Based Education.
Birtzer, Carol E. – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
Map making is an exercise in spatial relationships, perspective, and direction, and also can increase students' knowledge of their community and sense of place. In a Roger Tory Peterson Institute program, children map the environment around their school and simultaneously learn science, mathematics, language arts, and social studies. Describes…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cartography, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary School Students
Course of Discovery: Educators Living along the Route Traveled by Lewis and Clark Infuse Their Teaching with Modern Tools for Exploration.
Boss, Suzie – Northwest Education, 2003
A project to help teachers use technology to enhance learning is tied to the Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial, to bring a sense of adventure to learning. A 3-day outdoor workshop emphasizing the Nez Perce role in the expedition and a mapping project tracing changes in Lewiston (Idaho) had 8th-graders using global positioning systems,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, American Indian Studies, Cartography, Experiential Learning
Design and Implementation of Mapping Software: Developing Technology and Geography Skills in Two Different Learning Communities
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Friedman, Robert S.; Drakes, Jerri; Deek, Fadi P. – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
A software development collaboration project designed to maximize the skill sets and interests of school children and teachers, educational software technologists and researchers, and college undergraduates is presented. The work brings elementary school children with college seniors and technology consultants to implement a problem-solving…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, College Seniors, Student Projects, Active Learning
Conservation Excursions. Bulletin, 1939, No. 13
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Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
The conservation excursion takes the child out of the schoolroom and into his natural and social environment and helps him to study it and to participate in the conservation of its natural and human resources. The conservation excursion, like any other school journey, is not intended as a substitute for books, magazines, pictures, or any other…
Descriptors: Educational History, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education, Outdoor Education