Title: SA: Maps and Spatial Thinking Skills in the AP Human Geography Classroom | AP Central
Headings: Maps and Spatial Thinking Skills in the Classroom
Maps and Spatial Thinking Skills in the Classroom
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“Geography is the art of the mappable.”
“The map speaks across the barriers of language.”
Increased Interest in Maps
Three contexts for spatial thinking
Developing Geographic Skills
10 suggestions for developing skills as a geographer
Thinking in Space
Thinking About Space
Thinking with Space
References

Content: Collect a wide variety of maps and graphics from newspapers, news magazines, the internet, and other sources and critique them. Are they clear? Are they accurate? Are they biased? Read the maps in your AP Human Geography textbook carefully. Get as much information as possible from them. Examine them critically. Use sketch maps and diagrams to illustrate practice free-response questions. Such representations can help you to organize your thinking, to illustrate key points you wish to make, to spark your reasoning processes, and to add rigor and structure to your answer. Make a special point of using terms associated with space in your geographic discussions.