Learning and Teaching with Maps

By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Students in grades can click Globie to learn map concepts or Stixie to learn about statistics.
Table of contents

Psychology Press Bolero Ozon.


  • TEN FUN THINGS TO DO IN THE HAMPTONS!
  • Prayer (Catholic Spirituality for Adults)?
  • The 7 Triggers to Yes: The New Science Behind Influencing Peoples Decisions: What Drives People to M;
  • War and Diplomacy in the Japanese Empire (Routledge Library Editions: Japan)!
  • Treasured Memories.
  • Homoeopathy For Emergencies?
  • Collected Poems!

Learning and Teaching with Maps. Research in cartography and children.

The Map Features Song (Gentleman by PSY)

Cartography and geoinformation science. How children learn with maps.

Article Sections

Map learning as the personal construction of knowledge. Understanding the spherical Earth.

Bring mapping activities into your classroom!

Childrens maps of their own country. Understanding nested spatial hierarchies. Better teaching with maps. Planning a map and GIScience curriculum. Map learning as the social construction of knowledge.

ArcNews | The Importance of Teaching Children to Read Maps

Perspectives from an information processing approach. Models aerial photographs and large scale plans. Understanding that aerial photographs can represent space. Understanding that maps can represent space.

Using maps to find a location. Understanding the maps alignment and viewing angle. Understanding symbols and text on large scale maps. Using maps to find the way.

Penn State University Libraries

Using maps to identify a route. Navigating in the real world. For instance, are students exposed to map content in a prior course or an earlier part of the course? How to geospatial concepts from an earlier assignment build upon one another in later assignments? Instructor prior experience with geospatial content, GIS technology, and map concepts: For instance, does the instructor use geospatial information in own research or personal interests? For instance, what are objectives of the assignment and how does including a geospatial component enhance, connect, or help achieve the objective of the assignment?

Teaching with Maps

Independent or Group work: For instance, are students working independently or in small groups on assignments? It may be helpful to provide learners with tips on coming to group consensus on geospatial components of the project and provide a list of the geospatial decisions that will need to be made in an assignment. For instance, how much time will students have to work on assignments with a geospatial component from point of instruction to assignment completion deadline? It may be helpful to provide students with smaller milestone dates to communicate project progress in order to identify challenges or hurdles.

This aspect of timing is also important in terms of identifying any technology issues or issues of an entire class. Is additional data needed related to assignment?