Geographic Education: Should Start EarlyGeographic Education: Should Start Early

Five Themes of Geography

Location: Absolute and Relative Place: Human and Physical Characteristics Human Environmental Interactions Regions: Political and Geographic Movement: People, Goods, and Ideas

Five Skills for Interpreting Map Data

Reading the Key and Interpreting Symbols

Determining Longitude and Latitude Determining Direction Scale and Calculating Distance Making Generalizations and

Decisions (see resource book for examples of the above skills)

Interpreting Symbols: Our Heads are Full of Mental Maps

Interpreting Symbols: Our Heads are Full of Mental Maps

Interpreting Symbols: Globe vs Maps and Why Distortion is an Issue

Maps have different perspectives of the World

Interpreting Symbols: Globe vs Maps and Why Distortion is an Issue

Interpreting Symbols: Reading Charts

Interpreting Symbols: Buckminister’s Fuller’s: Dymaxion Projection

Interpreting Symbols: Toads on Logs

Title: purpose of the cartographer Orientation: compass rose Author: who is the cartographer Date: national boundaries do change Scale: perspective of size

Interpreting Symbols:Toads on Logs

Legend: also known as the keyOutline: leave a border for hole

punchGrid: make them fine and to scaleSource: could be you or another

map

Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

A Historical Map prior to the Civil War Uses Color to Symbolize Data

A Night View of the U.S.

Symbols and Legends: Student Examples

Symbols and Legends: Student Examples

Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

Interpreting Symbols: Reading the Key

Interpreting Symbols or Longitude and Latitude

Determining Scale and Calculating Distance

Determining Directions: Some Primary Ideas

Determining Directions: Border Patrol

Critical Thinking and Determining Directions

Critical Thinking: Map Concepts

Critical Thinking: Making Geographic Decisions

Review and Development

In Groups of three to five Summarize the Key Points Expand and Add Ideas Raise Questions for Clarification