Title: Teaching young children about maps for learning development
Headings: Teaching young children about maps to help their learning development
Teaching young children about maps to help their learning development
Why maps are an important tool for a child’s learning development
1. Learning about maps introduces spatial thinking
2. Reading maps improves visual literacy
3. Helps kids see past their own perspective
How to teach kids about maps while getting them to draw their own map
1. Show your kids different levels of detail on maps
2. Measure distances on a map
3. Explore directions and connect them to distance
4. Understand what symbols mean
5. Map out the classroom
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Content: Learning about maps introduces spatial thinking
Learning about maps helps children begin to understand what is going on in the spaces around them. According to National Geographic, “Spatial thinking is one of the most important skills that students can develop as they learn geography, Earth, and environmental sciences.” 2. Reading maps improves visual literacy
According to learnnc.org, map skills contribute to the skill of reading images. This means that a student is comprehending an image, rather than just observing it. 3. Helps kids see past their own perspective
Learning about where different cities and countries are located will help children gain a larger world view than what they see in their daily lives. If they can look at a globe and realize that Canada is a large country surrounded by water, while Switzerland is much smaller and does not connect to any sea or ocean, kids will be able to gain a realization that geography affects how people live. We’ve touched on this before in this article: Why should kids learn geography, and how can you help them do so?