This structured map skills course uses a simple colourful layout to introduce young pupils to using and drawing maps and plans.
Mapstart 1 is a structured introduction to map work for 6-7 year olds. It assumes no previous experience of map skills and establishes a sound foundation for graphic concepts, skills and vocabulary at a very simple level.
Mapstart 1 has been designed with the following purposes in mind:
* to build children's spatial awareness through the use of familiar objects, toys, the locality of the school and space photos;
* to extend children's understanding and use of vocabulary associated with spatial location, organisation and movement;
* to provide continuity through the book by the use of vertical aerial photos;
* to introduce children to the perspective of plans and maps and to the representational characteristics of maps;
* to encourage children to observe features and relationships in oblique and vertical photos and maps;
* to foster children's appreciation of the Earth as a globe.
A free file of answers to questions in Mapstart 1 is available free to download at
http://resources.collins.co.uk/free/Mapstart1Answers.pdf
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Simon Catling taught in London primary schools before moving to Oxford Brookes University in the 1980s, serving as Dean and Assistant Dean in the 1990s and 2000s. He is a Past-President of the Geographical Association, author of Mapstart and Teaching Primary Geography (with Tessa Willy).
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