When I was teaching 2nd grade I had to teach them different terms for Geography because we were doing a unit on where do we live. One of the things I did was have a big world map and on the map I had their names connected to a string to where their family was from. Some were local, some from other states and some from out of the country. When I did mine, I put Mrs. Devinney and a line going to Sweden which is where my parents are from. They loved it! Through out the year we talked about neighborhoods and they learned about directions. One important term they learned was the compass rose, which is a compass
