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In Social Science, one of the difficult things is map reading.
It is a tough task for the teachers to create and sustain
interest in map reading among the students.

In Cuddalore Isha Vidhya school, it has been conducted as an
activity for 8th grade. After teaching the lesson and the
important places, the teacher writes the name of the places
on the class board one at a time. The children who are ready
with the map and their pencil will mark the place once the
name is written on the board. At the end of the activity, the
teacher marks the correct spots on the map, so that the students
can do correction of their answers in their maps.  The student
who marked everything correct will be given a thunderous
applause.

Deekshanya, an 8th grade student shares:

"I generally find map reading tiresome and boring till our
teachers introduced an activity to mark the places in the map.
I slowly developed interest in it. This activity helps us to have
healthy competition between us the students, which enhances
our map reading skill. I thank my teacher for making this possible
for us."

Roshini, an 8th grade student shares:

"The fun filled activity made the class to master the map reading.
We are so involved in the subject that we started spending our
spare time in conducting games in marking places. We have started
looking for the present names for the ancient places like Patna for
Pataliputra. Our knowledge of history is being widened thanks
to the novel initiative of our teachers."

Links:

• Isha Vidhya at Global Giving