People often think that ideas about mapping and culture are too difficult and abstract for kindergarten students, let alone English Language Learners (ELLs). This article however describes how a preservice teacher taught a three day unit in geography to her students based upon places they or their family members had visited. Many of the students were English Language Learners (ELLs), and learned important aspects of the social studies curriculum, as well as lessons about one another. This preservice teacher learned that when you connect the curriculum to students' culture and family, they are capable of learning and sharing a great deal of knowledge. This method of inquiry is driven by the necessary aim of learning about students and families in order to teach them. In classrooms without recent immigrant families present, a family history project could serve as a bridge from the local to the global through ancestors. Another option would be to use popular media. As noted later in the article, all the students in this class were familiar with films like Disney's feature cartoon, "Mulan."