A Meaningful Way to Understand the World Map

The first and second graders received a special note 

from our Captains that the 

S. S. SEABURY HAD SPRUNG A LEAK

 and that all our clothing had gotten wet 

and needed to be replaced. 

Where in the world do we get new clothes? 

One student replied "Amazon!" 

And thus began our study of the World Map.

First of all, we learned the names 

of the continents and the oceans.

We looked at authentic old maps and then each made 

our own "antique map" of the world.

Several students wanted to put an old date on their maps 

and one said, 

"I know, I'm going to write 1985!" 

That's a long time ago for a six year old!!

We put together puzzles of the world. 

And then we got to work surveying where our clothes are from. 

El Salvador

 China

 Haiti

 Bangladesh

 Indonesia

 Vietnam

 Cambodia

 Taiwan

 Nicaragua

 Mexico

We each made a bar graph of our findings.

We marked the countries on a world map 

and drew the best route the S. S. Seabury 

would have to take to most efficiently 

visit all the countries. 

We'll discover later if the routes we chose 

were a reasonable choice 

as we mark the routes of the Explorers 

on our big classroom world map.