Clara Webb: Beyond Memorization: Rethinking Maps in the History Classroom. As teachers, it's hard not use our past experiences as students as a barometer for what we do in our classrooms.
When I think about using maps in my history classes, my mind often replays a memory from my own ninth grade Western Civ' experience: Mr. Johnson distributed blank outline maps of Europe. Like good honors students, we dutifully looked up and labeled each country. We memorized the map. We took a test. Theban Mapping Project.
World History.