Product Details
Format: Paperback Book
Pages: 153
Language: English
Size: 7" x 10"
Author: Patrick Wiegand
Comments: This book explains how children and young people read, understand, and interpret maps and how teaching with maps can be more effective.
Learning about maps has never been so important for children and young people. The rapid growth of internet mapping, digital atlases and Geographical Information Systems demands new skills alongside traditional ones such as locating places and using a map to find the way.
This book describes how children make meaning with maps. including large-scale plans, topographic and thematic maps, globes and maps of the world. Using evidence from psychology, geography and education it explains how children understand scale, coordinates, symbols, contours and place names and identifies common learning difficulties. New perspectives are provided on children's understanding of small-scale and atlas maps as well as recent evidence for young people's use of Geographical Information Systems. The text is extensively illustrated with examples of maps, including those made by children themselves using conventional materials as well as computer software.
The book shows how teachers can plan a curriculum and can plan to ensure balance and progression and suggests workable classroom activities for children from the early years of primary school to the middle of secondary education. Particular attention is paid to how learning with maps can contribute to children's developing literacy and numeracy skills. The book draws on the author's unique experience of teaching in primary and secondary schools, teacher training and extensive research and development in educational cartography.
About the Author: Patrick Wiegand is Reader in Geography Education at the University of Leeds, UK, and Chair of the Cartography and Children Commission of the International Cartographic Association.
Publication Details
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 2006
Published in Country: UK
Product Number: ISBN # 9780415312103
