I am going to give a presentation on the importance of Global Location in the prep school curriculum ... and Milton Jones and the Animaniacs are going to help!
My basic premise is that we need to teach children a rudimentary locational knowledge; a generic framework upon which they can hang the locational knowledge which is useful to them.
In other words, children should know the relative position of the continents and oceans; the key lines of latitude and longitude; and where they live in this grid.
How to teach this is much more fun!
