I teach geography and I really feel like the maps that the school district supply are outdated. I gave my students an assignment and they needed an up-to-date map of the United States to get the correct answers. This ended up being a problem so I went out an purchased a classroom set of current maps of  United States. Once my students had maps that were correct they breezed through the assignment.

In fact, they liked it so much that they asked for more map assignments. Since there were so many A’s from the first task, I decided to make it a bit more challenging and I handed each of them a zip code map. I essentially gave them clues to go from one zip code to another and they would eventually end up at the correct place on the map.

Then I took the assignment a step forward and gave them Africa maps. They were only vaguely familiar with this continent so this opened up a whole new unit for us to learn from. They even wanted a zip code map of Africa but I told them maybe some time in the future we would get to that…

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