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Karl Lillquist – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Cirques are often the most representative and numerous landforms in alpine glaciated watersheds. The readily mappable and measurable nature of cirques (especially aspects and floor elevations) may yield information about the climatic, geologic, and topographic conditions that created them. These ubiquitous landforms are the foci of an alpine…
Descriptors: Topography, Maps, Cartography, Map Skills
Carrera, Carlos Carbonell; Perez, Jose Luis Saorin; Cantero, Jorge de la Torre – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
In the field of geographical and environmental education, maps and geo-referenced information are frequently used, in which the earth's surfaces are represented in a two-dimensional (2D) way. Students have difficulty interpreting the relief representation and switching between 2D and 3D scenarios. Digital terrain modelling is added to the…
Descriptors: Usability, Visualization, Teaching Methods, Maps
Luchetta, Sara – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
Drawing from the importance of narrative inquiry in contemporary geographical reasoning and teaching, this paper focuses on some practices set around the relationship between maps and literature. Reader-generated maps, maps produced starting from the reading of a literary text, are at the core of a reflection on the potentialities of literary…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Reading Achievement, Concept Mapping, Geography Instruction
Osaci-Costache, Gabriela; Cocos, Octavian; Cocos, Alina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2015
Choropleth maps combined with diagram maps are frequently used in geography. For this reason, based on the maps developed by students, the study aims at the following: identifying and analyzing the errors made by the students; establishing and analyzing the competence level of the students; identifying the causes that led to these errors; and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Maps, Geography Instruction, Error Patterns
Milson, Andrew J. – Social Education, 2014
American history demands to be mapped. The stories of exploration, the colonies, the Louisiana Purchase, and so on are incomplete without maps to locate historical places, events, and conflicts. Yet maps can do more for the history teacher than simply illustrating what happened where or what territory was acquired when. Maps also provide clues…
Descriptors: United States History, Cognitive Mapping, Geographic Distribution, Maps
Cheong, France; Cheong, Christopher; Jie, Ferry – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Routing is the process of selecting appropriate paths and ordering waypoints in a network. It plays an important part in logistics and supply chain management as choosing the optimal route can minimise distribution costs. Routing optimisation, however, is a difficult problem to solve and computer software is often used to determine the best route.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Visualization, Maps, Internet
Campbell, Craig A., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the notion of participatory community mapping (PCM) for Indigenous knowledge production. Three major questions were posed in the study. First, how can PCM foster Indigenous knowledge production and documentation? Second, how can PCM be used to include local voice and input in mapping projects, and third, how can adult…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnography, Maps
Liben, Lynn S. – Knowledge Quest, 2008
Children's cognitive skills change substantially from the time they enter school at about the age of five to when they graduate from high school a dozen years later. Some changes can be attributed to the school curriculum, but others are part of children's developmental evolution as they mature and interact with the world. Rather than reviewing…
Descriptors: Maps, Young Children, Cognitive Development, Teaching Methods
Slocum, Terry A.; Dunbar, Matthew D.; Egbert, Stephen L. – Journal of Geography, 2007
This article discusses modern stereoscopic displays for geographic education, focusing on a large-format display--the GeoWall. To evaluate the potential of the GeoWall, geography instructors were asked to express their reactions to images viewed on the GeoWall during a focus group experiment. Instructors overwhelmingly supported using the GeoWall,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Focus Groups, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods

Hayes, David A. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Describes Make-a-Place (MAP), a creative activity for developing map literacy in which students imagine a hypothetical place and draw a map of it. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cartography, Class Activities, Literacy, Maps
Giffard, E. O. – 1972
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the alleged special difficulties in teaching very young children how to interpret cartographic symbols. Adults too often reduce or temporarily destroy interest by introducing too many complications too fast. There is a vast difference between acceptance of a fact and understanding of the cause of the fact.…
Descriptors: Cartography, Geography Instruction, Map Skills, Maps

VanCleave, Janice – Science Activities, 1993
Describes geography activities for elementary students. In the first activity, students learn how to understand coordinates and use them to read maps. In the second activity, students learn the concepts of the legend as well as how to use it to find their way around on a map. (PR)
Descriptors: Cartography, Elementary Education, Geography, Learning Activities
Wiegand, Patrick – Journal of Geography, 2003
Pairs of students from two age groups made choropleth maps using Arc View. Evidence from their discourse is used to assess aspects of their cartographic understanding as well as the nature of their collaboration. Students from both age groups spent a high percentage of their time talking about cartographic strategy and a low percentage of time on…
Descriptors: Maps, Cartography, Geography, Information Systems
Fryman, James F. – 1986
This document describes how to construct and compare choropleth maps for selected Iowa communities and the construction and use of scatter diagrams as a supplement to map comparisons. These tools can be used to compare social, economic, and political variations between neighborhoods and to determine if associations exist between selected…
Descriptors: Cartography, Community, Community Characteristics, Demography

Muessig, Raymond H. – Social Education, 1985
A step-by-step strategy for teaching secondary geography students about the concept of elevation using topographic maps is described. Students view slides of everyday examples of variations in elevation, produce a simple contour map using a layered model of a mountain, and analyze topographic maps of their own and other areas. (RM)
Descriptors: Cartography, Geography Instruction, Locational Skills (Social Studies), Map Skills