Why Children Still Need to Read (& Draw) Maps
Full Article | PBS Kids for Parents: click here
One of the benefits co-teaching I’m most grateful in New Tech is knowledge I’ve been passed down from several other educators, four in the past year I’ve had the chance to collaborate with. This past semester I got the opportunity to collab with a teacher who was my mentor when I first arrived to teach at the campus I’m at now. One of her goals was to help develop student’s mapping skills. I learned a lot about mapping skills I didn’t know before and was inspired to look up more about. One article I found that’s great for parents and educators is from PBS Kids for Parents. A great resource to apply in Humanities. Check it out at the link above! I’ve quoted some of my favorite parts of the article below…
“…map reading remains an important tool for building children’s spatial reasoning skills and helping them make sense of our world.” – An important skill to develop, spatial reasoning skills , three dimensional thinking! “…seeing int the mind’s eye..”
“…maps help them (children) figure out their place in the world.”
According to National Geographic, “…spatial thinking is arguably one of the most important ways of thinking for a child to develop as he or she grows…A student who has acquired robust spatial thinking skills is at an advantage in our increasingly global and technical society.”
Article includes several links to resources and children’s books connected to mapping concepts. Includes several interactive atlases to map-mapping tools for digital learning.
“Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.” – Judith Schalansky