[snip] For the sixth-graders at Visitation School, a Catholic K-8 school in south Minneapolis, however, the National Geographic survey would have been a piece of cake. These 11- and 12-year-olds know the world -- from Andorra to Zaire -- like the back of their hand. I know: Five years ago, my daughter was one of them.
Visitation's secret is a geography curriculum called Mapping the World by Heart. The kids study the world, continent by continent, all year. By May, they know how the nations fit together -- their relative sizes and locations, which countries share borders, which are land-locked, which have seaports. As a grand finale, they each draw a world map freehand on a large, blank sheet of paper. They label 180 nations and islands, and add correct latitude and longitude lines from memory. [snip] StarTribune
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