Thread: US High Schools & World History - take a look and play along!

Originally Posted by rockzmom

By any chance, does anyone have any suggestions that could help her to learn the maps and such? She needs to learn by Wednesday:

1. Familiarize yourself with and be able to locate the following items on a map of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Regions – Mesopotamia; Fertile Crescent; Southeast Asia; South Asia; East Asia; Middle East; Far East; North Africa

Bodies of Water- Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Atlantic Ocean; Mediterranean Sea; Red Sea; Indus River; Tigris River; Euphrates River; Ganges River; Nile River; Huang He {Yellow} River; Yangzi River; Bering Strait

Landforms – Sahara Desert; Himalayan Mountains

Countries – Egypt; India; Iraq; Iran; China; Indonesia; Afghanistan

Do a little bit memorizing? If she starts now or within a few hours from now she must've been able to handle this by Wednesday.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Do a little bit memorizing? If she starts now or within a few hours from now she must've been able to handle this by Wednesday.

yes, yes... it's is just that for this one class, she has to read more than 50 pages of text and summarize it into Cornell Notes to turn in for a grade, write a 500 word essay, answer the above beer questions AND learn the map stuff ALL by this Wednesday. And she has six other classes, and of course, she has homework in those classes as well.

So I was just seeing if anyone in this oh so wise group might have a suggestion other than straight memorization like a mnemonic devise or a poem or short story they learned that will help her to remember where things are on a map.