Reflect on Your Practice

In this section, you will reflect on ways that you have used map activities with your students. Discuss the following questions with your colleagues or reflect on them in your journal. Use specific examples wherever possible.

1. What kinds of map activities have you done with your students?
2. What were the benefits of doing these activities? What really worked?
3. What were the challenges of doing these activities? What didn't work?
4. What strategies do you use to help students interpret and use the maps they encounter in textbooks and other United States history resources?