Learning And Teaching With Maps

Learning and Teaching with Maps explains how children and young people readunderstand and interpret maps and how teaching with maps can be moreeffective. Learni... » 

Learning and Teaching with Maps explains how children and young people readunderstand and interpret maps and how teaching with maps can be moreeffective. Learning abot maps has never been so important for children andyoung people. The rapid growth of internet mapping digital atlases andGeographical Information Systems GIS demands new skills alongside traditionalones such as locating places and using a map to find the way.The book describes how children make meaning with maps including large scaleplans topographic and thematic maps globes and maps of the world. The bookdetails how teachers can plan a curriculum to ensure balance and progressionand suggests workable classroom activities for children from the early years ofprimary to secondary school. Particular attention is paid to how learning withmaps can conribute to childrens developing literacy and numercy skills. Thebook draws on the authors unique experience of teaching primary and secondaryschools teacher training and extensive research and development ineducational cartography.This book will be of great use to all primary teachers and subject leaders inprimary geography as well as nonspecialist geography teachers. «