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Download full textYiannoutsou, Nikoleta; Kynigos, Chronis – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
We report research on meanings of scale generated by pairs of 14 year-old students engaged in joint map-construction. Characteristics of the learning environment, such as the communicational orchestration, the use of experientially familiar objects in space as starting points for creating figural representations and the interrelated…
Descriptors: Cartography, Spatial Ability, Map Skills, Cooperative Learning
McWilliams, Harold; Rooney, Paul – 1997
Mapping Our City is a two-year project in which middle school teachers and students in Boston explore the uses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in project-based science, environmental education, and geography. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation and is being field tested in three Boston middle school science classrooms.…
Descriptors: Cartography, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Educational Technology
