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Global Awareness Through Travel Literature

Susannah WheelwrightGrade 6 World Geography Teacher

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Global Awareness

Understanding other cultures +

Knowing one’s place in the larger world +

Empathetic worldview +

Outreach and service = Global Citizenship

Travel

“Seeing” other people and places + reflecting on global experiences + comparing and contrasting to own place and culture = Learning via a geographical lens


Travel Literature Maps Diaries Blogs Images Video Letters TEXTS Global

Audio Fiction Photos Postcards Logbooks Guidebooks

Overview

• Global Content: Maps, Geotagged Primary Sources, Other Cultures

• Geographically Rich Global Experiences: Virtual Travel, People from other cultures, Literature and Images, Interactive Maps

• Compare and Contrast: Global Interactions, Text to Visual, Local to International, Culture to Culture, Historical to Contemporary

Why?

• To challenge stereotypes and prevent generalizations

• To make foreign places real instead of imagined

How?

• Classroom teachers and students interact with travel literature as text

• Students publish globally and communicate with people of other cultures

Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

Julie Elkan, Holliston Tech Ed Coordinator

Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) for the Swensrud Teacher Fellowship and the support and access to their library of primary sources

Marie Cuevas & Laurie O’Rourke, fellow curriculum creators & webinar viewers