Reading 7 Looping Sketchbook

 When someone asks another person about a location, sometimes that person can tell you the exact details, but sometimes there is people who struggle to tell you exactly. Connecting this idea to the text, it makes me think of how much I know about my surroundings and the concept of what is going on around me. “A small world approach to teaching geography is achieved by engaging young learners in a series of “sense of place” activities related to their local environment.” (Walking and Talking Geography, pg. 15, 2007). Knowing at a young age what there is in our surroundings and understanding why our environment is like encourages kids to have a greater mind of what is out there. Being able to explore the geography and the environment we are surrounded with can help us think of ways to keep it clean and help the animals have a place to be. Constructing maps is not just about remembering the places, but actually seeing it in a map as how it is. If a store is in the right-hand corner, the store has to be in that position in the map, so it is easy to locate a location. The kids are able to use their five senses to understand what they see around. What do they hear? What do they see? What can they smell?  Personally, I enjoy observing my surroundings and always try to keep it clean. I enforce that to my students if they see trash on the floor, they should pick it up so our environment can look nice.