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Mapping the World by Heart Lite 7th Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: David Smith
Publisher: Tom Snyder Productions
Category: Book
Buy New: $59.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 402398
Media: Ring-bound
Pages: 121
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 10.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 1590093836
EAN: 9781590093832
ASIN: 1590093836
Publication Date: January 20, 2003
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Product Description
Grades5-12 Can your students draw detailed maps without an atlas? They can now! Perform a miracle with Mapping the World by Heart. It's a complete and proven approach to teaching geography. You'll see the most amazing results! Picture your students confidently penciling in the countries of central Africa, the expanse of the Rocky Mountains, and the nations of Southeast Asia. All by heart. As seen on NBC and in Time magazine! The stunning results of David Smith's curriculum were featured on NBC's Today show, in Time magazine, and in newspapers across the country. Now you can get the same results in your classroom! What's Included Comprehensive Teacher's Guide, detailed lesson plans, reproducibles, and blank outline maps. Mapping the World by Heart Lite includes master outline maps (one for each of the 9 world regions).
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 Not good for our homeschool. October 16, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The program comes with a set of large maps but they are too big for my home printer. I had to pay to make copies. I could have ordered them from the publisher but they come in sets of 30 (or so) of one particular map. It would be good if it was possible to order sets like the sample set.
The maps are very hard to use. We tried to outline and label the counties of Asia and found it almost impossible to locate countries because rivers are included on the maps and they muddle the borders. It's good to learn where the rivers are but not at the expense of learning where the country is.
In one of the lessons a grid is draw on a map and then (to scale) a grid is to be draw on the playground. The students are then to transfer the small map to the large one. We're rural and don't have any place that we could use to re-create this lesson. I'm sure if this was the only problem with mapping the world by heart I would find a solution but it's not.
I wish I had known the extent of extra maps that are needed for this program. Maps are not cheap and some are hard to find. We only have dial up available to us so using the internet is limited.
Although, we don't plan to compete in any geography bees we are using The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook to help guide us in learning geography. I also bought some map software so I can print all the maps we need. It's not perfect but it's much better than Mapping the World by Heart.
 Needs more help with implementation September 28, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First of all, the enclosed video with this product is really more of a promo; it helps very little with using the course.
Secondly, the written material is put together like a menu. The "appetizers" are some fun and easily implementable activities to help kids gain an overview of geographic concepts.
The "desserts" are different ways to output the learned material.
However the "main course" in which I expected to learn HOW to teach my kids to "map the world by heart" was nothing but a list of the continents and all the countries and landforms that need to be memorized. I was looking to this course to teach me HOW to teach my kids to "map the world by heart" but all it showed me was the WHAT. It, unfortunately, was a waste of money.
 good program, but not complete September 10, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this program because of rave reviews I had read. The intro video is very impressive, which features the teacher who created the program and his 7th grade class. It will motivate you to teach your student(s) geography.
However, when I started to use the program, it was not complete. It assumes you already have some idea of what you want to teach, and it gives you enrichment ideas to teach in creative ways. I am only starting the program, so I will get back to you when I have used it more. However, I did feel I had to purchase additional materials to teach concepts that were involved in certain introductory exercises in the book.
I think the program might be ideal for school teachers; for home educating parents, they may need supplemental materials to help them out.
 The cure for America's Geographically Illiterate Youth September 21, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I am a 7th grade teacher from Madison Wisconsin. I have used this program for 12 years. I teach about 150 kids each school year and all of them, from the very brightest to the very lowest ability children, learn it in their own right. We practice one continent at a time and learn mnemonic devices to reinforce newly acquired knowledge. For example, the phrase "Cute James Hates Doing Puzzles" represents the Caribbean Islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico in order from west to east. The word "BASMOQN" represents the lower Canadian provinces in order from west to east: British Colombia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland. I show the students how to draw each region and we practice, practice, practice. When I feel they're ready, I test them on each region by asking them to draw it "by heart" on their posters with nothing more available to them than a list of the correct spellings of the names of countries, provinces, and water bodies. The finished product-a big map of the world drawn by each student from memory, is truly breathtaking and every year parents and students who've had older siblings come through my class tell me that they "still have their map". I highly recommend this program.
Amazing Results May 16, 2003
61 out of 63 found this review helpful
I used this curriculum with a homeschool co-op. I taught twelve children ranging from grades 4-12. Our "before" world maps from memory hardly contained any information and very unusual continent shapes and locations, even the one done by grades 9-12.
As we mapped and labeled each continent, we also did a study of the history and culture of the countries in each continent. Every week, each student researched a different area of each culture and gave oral presentations in class.(these ideas/activities are given in the curriculum.) Our end of year maps from memory are the best endorsement I could give. I wish you could see them. The continents were accurately drawn and 70 to 80 percent of the details like landforms, political divisions and capital cities were included. Our best map was completed by a 6th grader who was able to list every single item on the "mapping the world by heart list" given in the curriculum. There is some teacher preparation in doing extra activities recommended in the curriculum. My only complaint was that the map sheets were not available in smaller quantities so we had to come up with our own outline maps to label. I highly recommend that every student be required to complete this curriculum before reaching highschool. My history class no longer has to ask "Where is that?"
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