BookMapping
By Tyler Hogan with Maggie Hogan
Do your kids love to read? Bookmapping may be just the thing to turn a great book into a hands-on geography project. Take a blank outline map and some colored pens (and stickers for the younger ones). Every time your child or family reads a book, map out where it takes place or journeys the characters undergo. If you read several books in the same region, you can use separate maps, or plot them together to see where they intersect. For historical books, use a historical atlas to show old borders of countries or ancient cities. Get creative with how you mark battle sites, castles, boat rides, home towns, and other events in the plot.
