At the close of each chapter of ACG: Explore the Holy Land, after notebooking of one's escapades and adventures, each  geographer maps his/her journey.

When one draws a map, one begins to attend to the details of landforms, the political boundaries of countries, and how God uniquely has shaped coastlines and continents.

Have you tried mapping from memory?  From the Parent's Review,  the magazine sent to Charlotte Mason's schools in the late 1800's, a suggestion in how to teach young explorers how to draw their own maps:

The [country]  stated, the master proceeds to sketch it from the atlas or his memory on the  blackboard, at the same time each pupil sketches it for himself, first in pencil:  afterwards the outline is inked in, and the pencil-mark rubbed out. New pupils will  sometimes take half-an-hour over this operation; but after three or four lessons,  five minutes suffice for a practical outline.

Look what this geographer produced of Europe in fifteen minutes!

Consider joining the From Memory group on Flickr, which solicits maps and diagrams drawn from memory!  What country map might you draw in fifteen minutes? Give it a try!

If you are traveling with ACG: Explore the Holy Land, consider posting the maps you've drawn from your adventures to the Flickr group!

Let's be like Joshua, who sent out people to map and discover!

 

Joshua 18:4
Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out.