Publication details
The level of map skills development of elementary school pupils
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Geography and Geoinformatics: Challenge for Practise and Education |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | gender; geographical framework; grade; maps; map skills |
| Description | Maps belong to the most useful aids in geography teaching. They enable teachers to show distant and unknown places on the earth. But, maps are not used only to finding rivers, cities or states. First of all, maps are the worth source of information. To pupils could find out or take out the information from the map, they must develop their map skills - map reading, map analysing nad map interpretation. The paper presents the results of pretest focused on the leve of development of map skills by pupils attending basic school. Geographical framework was used as a research tool. It consists of geographical tasks focused on the map skills. Separate tasks goes along with the map skills presented in the Map Skills Model. The result show the siginificant influence of grade. The influence of gender was not proved. |