Click on the Web icon above and select the UNICEF website. This suggests some approaches that might be used in different countries to develop mapping activities.
Make some notes in your online Notebook about the ideas suggested. How relevant are some of these suggestions in your own school situation?
Now click on the Image icon above and look at the Mapping stairway. This is a proposed model, arising from the research. How does this compare with your own lesson planning in the use of maps?
Teaching and learning about mapping
‘Two wrongs don’t make a right but three rights do make a left!’
(Papert, 1996)
Mapping in the classroom
To learn more about the above quotation, click on the Text icon below.
Papert article
A number of schemes have been produced which are intended to provide some indication of when to introduce and develop the necessary skills needed for children to use maps. Most documentation produced by national agencies suggests possible approaches.
Here is one approach produced by UNICEF to help teachers working with children in different countries to create a ‘community basemap’. This is linked to a number of planned activities which make use of the natural environment around a school.
Click on the thumbnail below.
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