This summer five students and one trip leader at traveling along the Connecticut River to develop an intellectual, emotional, and embodied understanding of this watershed as both a socio-ecological entity and a metaphor for something larger–a paradigm for living well in a place wherever we go. For the second blog post Ms. Goodale shares with us some of the work students have been doing on making meaning from place through maps.
After two hikes around Quimby Cottages, we created an “event map,” as a group reflection activity about aspects of the trail that stood out to us. We then shared a discussion about how our collective map represented how we are making meaning from place. As you zoom in on the map, you can get a sense of what the students’ experienced. The other maps are for reference in the same area.
