Been a few years since moving to a new classroom that was prison grey and completely barren. So much possibility, but so much wall space that I didn't even know where to begin. I've been putting things up slowly, but it gets really expensive with that much space. I had no maps to use in the new room. Those old school maps that used to hang over the chalkboard seem to be a thing of the past in the profession now and what mostly happens is we just project what we need, but I like to have the visual reminders up all the time and for students to be able to see connections between continents and nations to provide context for the events we're learning. I'm a huge believer the geography and climate shapes history as much as ideas, so to be able to drive this point home finally is wonderful. The maps are also super helpful because I teach English learners who really need visual cues. Four different languages are spoken in my classroom with students ranging from 3 months to 2 years in the same class. I do gallery walks and roundtable activities regularly and the maps are going to be integrated into that process.

I originally posted a big list of maps that could all be useful, thinking of giving some options to generous redditors. My secret-teacher-santa redditor bought them all. I can't describe how grateful I am. I put them up immediately after school for the pics. Still searching for a spot for the other two posters of Japan and a classy 19th century one of Africa that I want to put up above the place on the wall where I plan to collect unit writing for document based questions on imperialism around November. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Added virtual tour of the classroom to show it as work in progress and so you can see what a big difference it makes!