“Teaching with Maps: New Haven Past and Present”

The New Haven Environmental History Project will host a December 4th workshop for area teachers on teaching with maps and making maps with students. The workshop is part of the project’s efforts to make New Haven historical materials easily available for use by teachers, by organizing and curating teachable primary sources and developing lesson plans and teaching units– available at https://campuspress.yale.edu/nheh/

 

Studying maps imparts skills of literacy and spatial awareness. Maps also reveal the history of a place, while simultaneously showing what map makers and map users value most. Renowned historian and cartographer William Rankin, author of the newly released Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change the World, will show us how to better read (and make) maps of New Haven. Teachers Steve Staysniak, of Metropolitan Business Academy, and Ian Dudley, of Cold Spring School, will share their experience using maps to spark student engagement with the city’s past. Group discussion will explore ways to empower students through maps!

 

Members of the public are warmly invited to attend.