Title: 
Headings:  Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
 
and
 
Practice

Maps
 
and
 
Map
 
Learning
 
in
 
Social
 
Studies

Sarah
 
Witham
 
Bednarz,
 
Gillian
 
Acheson,
 
and
 
Robert
 
S.
 
Bednarz

Assessing
 
Students’
 
Knowledge

Teachers’
 
Goals

www.odt.org

Map
 
Learning


 
Map
 
Curriculum

An
 
Invitation
 
to
 
“Live
 
and
 
Learn
 
in
 
Historic
 
Virginia”

For
 
details,
 
call
 
(804)
 
493-8038,
 
ext.
 
1558

 
—Denis
 
Wood

Talking
 
Back
 
to
 
Maps

RESOURCES
 
FROM
 

RETHINKING
  
SCHOOLS

VISIT
 
US
 
AT
BOOTH
 
216
 
ATNCSS2006
 

IN
 
WASHINGTON,
 
D.C.

RETHINKING
 
SCHOOLS
 
MAGAZINE

THE
 
LINE
 
BETWEEN
 
US
Teaching
 
About
 
the
 
Border
and
 
Mexican
Immigration

RETHINKING
 
GLOBALIZATION

Teaching
 
for
 
Justice
 
in
 
an
 
Unjust
 
World
 

OPEN
 
MINDS
 
TO
 
EQUALITY


Sourcebook
 
of
 
Learning
 
Activities
 
to
 
Affirm
Diversity
 
and
 
Promote
 
Equity

Here
 
are
 
three
 
strategies
 
to
 
help
 
students
 
become
 
more
 
critically
 
“carto-literate”:

MAPS
 
from
 
page
 
404


Content: ”1
 
Fifty
 
years
 
later
 
Peter
 
Haggett
 
expressed
 
the
 
same
 
sentiment
 
even
 
more
 
directly
 
and
 
succinctly: “Geography
 
is
 
the
 
art
 
of
 
the
 
mappable. ”2
Since
 
1990,
 
the
 
importance
 
of
 
maps
 
and
 
other
 
graphic
 
representations
 
has
 
become
 
even
 
more
 
important
 
to
 
geog-
raphy
 
and
 
geographers. This
 
is
 
due,
 
to
 
a
 
large
 
extent,
 
to
 
the
 
development
 
and
 
widespread
  
diffusion
  
of
  
geographic
 
(spatial)
 
technologies. As
 
computers
 
and
 
silicon
 
chips
 
have
 
become
 
more
 
capable
 
and
 
less
 
expensive,
 
geographic
 
informa-
tion
 
systems
 
(GIS),
 
global
 
positioning
 
satellite
 
(GPS)
 
receivers,
 
and
 
remotely
 
sensed
 
images
 
of
 
Earth
 
from
 
airplanes
 
and
 
satellites
 
have
 
become
 
accessible
 
to
 
geography
 
students
 
and
 
faculty
 
at
 
all
 
lev-
els. These
 
technologies
 
are
 
key
 
research
 
and
 
communication
 
tools
 
for
 
geographers
 
and
 
have
 
significantly
 
increased
 
inter-
est
 
in
 
geography
 
as
 
evidenced
 
by
 
rising
 
enrollments
 
in
 
university
 
undergraduate
 
and
 
graduate
 
programs.3
 
Another
 
indica-
tion
 
of
 
the
 
growing
 
importance
 
of
 
maps
 
is
 
a
 
rising
 
interest
 
among
 
geographers,
 
psychologists,
 
and
 
cognitive
 
scientists
 
in
 
spatial
 
thinking,
 
the
 
kind
 
of
 
thinking
 
that
 
underpins
 
map
 
reading
 
and
 
interpreta-
tion. Spatial
 
thinking
 
is
 
the
 
knowledge,
 
skills,
 
and
 
habits
 
of
 
mind
 
to
 
use
 
spatial
 
concepts,
 
maps
 
and
 
graphs,
 
and
 
pro-
cesses
 
of
 
reasoning
 
in
 
order
 
to
 
organize
 
and
 
solve
 
problems.4
Of
 
course
 
geospatial
 
technologies
 
and
 
their
 
products
 
are
 
available
 
to
 
students
 
and
 
faculty
 
in
 
all
 
disciplines,
 
and
 
they
 
have
 
become
 
ever
 
more
 
common
 
in
 
the
 
daily
 
lives
 
of
 
more
 
and
 
more
 
people. In
 
fact,
 
one
 
can
 
argue
 
that
 
the
 
ability
 
to
 
use
 
maps,
 
images,
 
and
 
spatial
 
technologies
 
intelligently
 
and
 
critically
 
is
 
becoming
 
a
 
requirement
 
to
 
participate
 
effectively
 
as
 
a
 
citizen
 
in
 
modern
 
society. Consider
 
these
 
four
 
developments: Travelers,
 
hikers,
 
hunters,
 
and
 
fishers
 
frequently
 
use
 
GPS
 
systems
 
to
 
find
 
their
 
locations
 
and
 
to
 
assist
 
them
 
in
 
getting
 
to
 
their
 
destination.