Sketch Maps: Helping Students Get the Big Picture.

Metz, Howard M.

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ERIC Number: EJ414149

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Publication Date: 1990

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Sketch Maps: Helping Students Get the Big Picture.

Metz, Howard M.

Journal of Geography, v89 n3 p114-18 May-Jun 1990

Discusses sketch maps that are free-hand maps drawn from memory that help to organize spatial information. Demonstrates how teachers can use sketch map activities in their classrooms and provides examples of students' maps that illustrate progressive levels of learning world place location. (DB)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, Learning Activities, Locational Skills (Social Studies), Maps, Social Studies, Spatial Ability, Student Developed Materials, Teaching Methods, World Geography

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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